The Frantic Gardeners’ Blog

Actually, this isn’t all we are harvesting and eating, but we are harvesting armfuls of beans, potatoes and courgettes so this is making up the preponderance of our meals!

So far this week we have eaten: potatoe, courgette and french bean frittata with home grown salad leaves and tomatoes from the greehouse. We have had courgette mousaka - which was v delicious with the tomato sauce made from our own tomatoes, onions, garlic and the couple of peppers that are ripe enough . when we had bought quiche we had french beans from the garden, home grown salads and tomatoes and potatoes.

We have therefore harvested a lot of salad leaves and tomatoes too, a couple of ripened peppers [tasty grill] rainbow chard [stirfry with courgettes, french beans…]

Also harvesting are some apples that seem to be ripe. we have3 lost quite a lot of apples to wasp damage this year, so think tht next year we should probably have one of those fake wasp nests to see if they are protective. Nearly ready are autumn ripening raspberries - yum yum!

The chickpea crop has worked! it isn’t very big or exciting, but was a trial in the greenhouse with dried chickpeas rather than with bought seeds, so to get any crop i think is doing well. Excitements of excitements we have 2 watermelons growing! they are tennis ball size so I am not sure they will make it to harvest but again, they missed on being potted up properly whilst we were in canada so might do better next year

for disappointments - runner beans, only 2 plants germinated and waiting to see what kind of crop we get. the melons haven’t done anything either

nearly ready - aubergines, there seems to be lots of them coming along, peppers, raspberries and looks like a good crop of sweetcorn and squashes seem to be on the way.

so we are v happy with our garden currently, tho abundance of courgettes, potatoes and freinch beans, there is also a good harvest of rainbow chard, salad leaves, tomatoes and a smattering of carrots and the odd final brocolli to boost it.