Monday 10 June 2013

Harvest Monday - 10th June '13

This week the winter produce has started to come in.  It's a great feeling. The pickings have been broccoli, chillies and some tiny capsicums picked green to beat the frost.


A little fennel - this bulb was picked as a baby fennel lightly sautéed to accompany a meal.


LOADS of parsley, loads and loads  - parsley with everything. At present I only have curled parsley.


More broccoli and the first of the cauliflower,


a rather pathetically small cauli, sigh!


A wonderful wombok,


much admired by Muriel the chicken,


Rocket, loads of rocket and a little rosemary. This rocket made a salad of rocket, shaved pecorino, garlic oil and lemon juice. It was fantastic.


It feels great to finally have so much produce. As a result, I have decided I don't need to buy any greens at all for the foreseeable. I have this produce and more coming thru. Finally after a horribly hard summer with almost no produce at all, this little pile of produce feels like true bounty.

How is your produce going? I am contributing this to Daphne's  Harvest Monday, pop over and see  the produce of others - there will be a little list of links to others' growings when the world turns a little more.

7 comments:

  1. Yay - very exciting. I have a similar size cauli that I think I will pick tomorrow. They clearly only want to be small this year... Your fennel looks perfect - really beautiful. How long does it take to reach that size?

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    1. Must be a small cauli year... I think I started raising this fennel from seed in February. I normally don't pick it this early but the meal demanded it.

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  2. Great Winter Harvest Louise! that wombok is a beauty and what a treat to have lots of fresh parsley..........I was a little slow getting in my autumn plantings so pickings are a little slim from our patch. Hope you have received lots of rain......What a summer!!

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    1. Finally I feel I am getting somewhere. I don't think you can ever have too much parsley but I do need to get some flat parsley going. I have recently received heaps of really grate rain, thanks and more due tomorrow.

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  3. Gorgeous harvest, and great to see all your work is coming to fruition. I'm sure all the carted sheep poo must be doing its job!

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    1. I'm getting there and starting to build my permanent beds. Today O carted three loads of manure - two loads from under the shearing shed and another load of bull pooh from my neighbours bull yards.

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