Harvest Monday - 31 August 2015

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Urgh! What horrible weather we have had this last week. Torrents of rain; black skies; wind; temperatures more appropriate to March rather than August. I haven’t been out in the garden very much, that’s for sure. Just a few brief forays to bring in the harvests.

This is Wednesday evening’s basket, containing Runner Beans, “Kew Blue” (French) beans, cucumbers and tomatoes.

Aided by the rain no doubt, the beans are doing well now. The Runners are big and juicy.

The cucumbers (Diva and Mini Munch) are not so impressive. They are not what I would consider good specimens. However, they taste all right – quite sweet in fact. The skins are a bit tough, but that’s OK because we peel them off before eating anyway.

The tomatoes don’t like the rain though. Many of them are splitting (see next photo). Because of this I have been picking them a bit under-ripe and finishing them off indoors. A split tomato is OK to eat as long as you use it straight away. They go bad quickly if you keep them.

That pointed one is an attractive tomato, don’t you think? IT is one of the “Possena del Vesuvio” ones.

On Thursday I harvested another pot of potatoes. These are “Sarpo Kifli”, another of the disease-resistant varieties from the Sarvari Trust.

Weighing in at 974g, with 22 tubers of useable size, this is a decent yield from one seed tuber.

This was Sunday - Runner Beans and more tomatoes:

Oh, and I nearly forgot, this Lettuce. We have Lettuce from the garden “on demand”, so I sometimes forget to mention harvesting it. This one is a “Can Can”.

Its leaves are very deeply serrated, more reminiscent of an Endive than a Lettuce.

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