Kitchen Garden Forum

I've been up to my plot today and although very waterlogged I am quite pleased that I still have some produce to pick. Cabbages, celery (although not looking too good it will probably be cooked) curly kale, beetroot, kale, a very few carrots, and in the polytunnel, lettuces, basil, and still some yellow courgettes (though very small). I am going to make more plans for next year and try to get more in the polytunnel for winter, various problems this year have made me lose my momentum but next year I have lots of ideas for the plot.

I don't have a greenhouse or polytunnel on the allotment (not allowed), but am still harvesting, runner beans, Tuscan kale, curly kale, red cabbage, swedes, turnips, beetroot, parsnips, carrots, Jerusalem artichokes, chard, courgettes and gherkins.

In the garden greenhouse, tomatoes and chillies.

Not too bad for October, it looks a lot more when it's written down.

Parsnips, Leeks, Cabbage, Beetroot, Lettuce, Radish, Tomatoes (in greenhouse) Sprouts not looking very good, Purple sprouting broccoli and spring cabbages for later.
Bren

Winter crops - parsnips, carrots, celeriac, cabbage (red and savoy) sprouts, kale, jerusalem artichokes, leaf beet, chard, leeks, swedes, kohl rabi. And some summer broccoli, runners and climbing French beans, lettuce, beetroot, rocket, coriander. Greenhouse tomatoes, peppers and one cucumber. Purple sprouting broccoli and spring cabbage for later on.
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Granny

Ooh I forgot, leeks, sprouts, lettuce and oriental greens.

It seems such a LOT for this time of the year. However, it is very cold out there tonight which may well finish off a few things at the plot.

I picked a flipping enormous head of romanesco last Sunday along with calabrese, purple sprouting, tuscan kale, brussels sprouts, tomatoes, carrots, runner beans and leaf beet.

OMG Retropants, that is really fabulous I have been trying to grow this da***d vegetable for three years, I have lost all mine this year when they went to seed before even getting to a reasonable size. What variety did you grow?

sorry, can't remember, I think it was suttons or T&M. It was, however a bit of a fluke I fear. I just added a smidge of lime to the soil at planting time, an kept covered with mesh. Didn't really bother watering it either. I have 5 more to come, but I don't think they'll be quite as impressive!

Thanks for the complimet!

Where are you, I'm going to come and visit your garden Keep an eye on the other's Though I think you might be too far away from us. Shame...I will just have to grow my own.

That does look good Retro well done.

There will be some stuff to harvest even if it is only the cabbages, but I havn't got to the allotment for a while (earning my keep)

thankyou Stephen!

i picked a strawberry today.

my alpine strawberries are hussies: still making flowers, still hoping for a bee or butterfly.

tasty hussies, though. ;>

Lifted my last row of potatoes,British Queen,today.Not the all-rounder I understood them to be.They boiled to nothing but make lovely roasters.Back to Desiree next season.

I've been picking frisee and escarole over the weekend. I haven't grown escarole before, but I shall definitely do it again next year. Lovely crop and great in a salad with orange & fennel.
My calabrese has fantastic heads on it at the moment - I'm sure it's all the rain, but I've never had such a succesful crop. It's been under enviromesh and has come out really clean, too.
The red radicchio is heading up nicely, too.
I'm hoping to get all my old summer raspberries replaced tomorrow (taking a day off - hooray!), as the old ones appear to have some virus on them and the crop wasn't very good this summer.

All the usual spring brassicas in as well, being lovingly nurtured and due to have their netting protection shored up tomorrow.

Can't wait!
Vivien

Never heard of escarole, so I looked it up on Google and it sounds interesting. Where did you get the seeds, Vivienz?