Kitchen Garden Forum

I've just posted under another thread about cheese and tomato sandwiches with my own toms as a high point in the gardening year. Next is probably the first runner beans, followed by the first Broad Beans.

What are your veggie high points, top 3!

MW

First new potatoes.

I think these 3 are going to get repeated again and again, only because you can't buy the taste.....

New potatoes

Runner beans

Tomatoes.

But then there's.....

French Beans, courgettes and beetroot.

First patatoes
broad beans
french beans
followed by everything we planted

After the ones already listed comes salad with attitude.

sweetcorn

raspberries

strawberries

First - new potatoes

Second - tomatoes

Third....still awaiting the harvesting of my tiger nuts.

What constitutes attitude in your salad Geoff?

Retropants, you have a sweet tooth!

Forgive me my ignorance, but what are tiger nuts?

MW

busted

Here -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyperus_esculentus

I remember buying them from the sweet shop when I was young (a loooooong time ago). Looked like knobby dried up bits of brown pea but tasted delicious..nutty and coconut and almonds.

I've got them in large pots outside now but I started them off in the propagator.

For me it's been a fabulous year, the highlight will be French climbing beans picked in October assuming this summer continues.

I had to deal with pests like everyone though nothing failed and it's almost as if my soil has become super-charged, the exception is the poor germination of the grazing rye that's been sown in two raised beds. I blame the seed, do we ever know how old some seed is ?

Strawberries.
New Potatoes.
Beetroot.

I was desperate for some strawberries this year and bought some English ones from Asda. pffftt. They were almost tasteless.
When ours were ripe a couple of weeks later.... mmmm mmmm. Wow!
I will never buy them again.

Seeing the first chilli seedling appear - they're always the first vegs I sow every year
Sweet freshly picked peas
Plucking and eating first sun ripened tomato straight off the plant

46 small delicious peaches on my dwarf tree in a pot in the greenhouse
and a wonderful crop of sweetcorn Lark