Harvest Monday - 23rd June 2014

I have only a small number of Strawberry plants, so I am never able to harvest them in large quantities, so the ones I do have tend to be eaten immediately or perhaps added to a batch of bought ones. I think you will agree though that deficiencies in quantity are compensated for by superior quality. Those ones are certainly fine specimens, and oh did they taste sublime or what??

I have been continuing to harvest Lettuce – by the barrowload! This is another of the “Green Oak Leaf” ones, and it was absolutely enormous:

As well as the “Green Oak Leaf” I have harvested “Cervanek” and “Can-Can”. I like to mix several varieties into the same salad if possible, to give a nice mix of colours and textures.

This week has also seen me harvesting the first of my Broad Beans:

Since I need the space for my rapidly-expanding tomato plants, I dug up the two pots of “Sharpe’s Express” potatoes too. These were the ones I left to grow on after manually removing most of their tubers. The second crop was small, and the tubers nowhere near as clean and blemish-free as the first ones, but it still produced 325g, which is worth having. They will look better after I’ve given them a scrub.