Monday 15 July 2013

Harvest Monday - 15th July '13

This morning, before the rain closed in and sent me inside to sit in front of the fire, I cruised the garden for pickings. Here is the stash I picked.


Out of shot of this photo above was the first picking of the savoy cabbages. Here it is in all it's crinkliness!


For a close up view  of the produce picked today, here is the mini cauli ( in variety and size!) and some side shoots of broccoli.


Some baby leeks and celery.


A fluffy fennel top - I have plans for it and the baby leeks in a smoked salmon and fennel top and baby leek quiche.


A pile of very hairy rooted beetroots. These poor babies got their tops grazed off several times over summer by a grazing wallaby  and as such are not the best quality. I think I will pickle them.


Today's pickings join the mini wombok picked earlier in the 'harvest' week,


and another handful of broccoli side shoots.


The womboks are nearly all finished now - I have just two left to pick. But the savoys are now coming on and they will be followed by a small number of Mini cabbages - I wont be cabbage-less at all. I have really enjoyed the womboks and will definitely raise more next season.

That's the pickings for this week. Check Daphne's Dandelion's for her pickings and other harvests from around the world. 

Keep picking!

22 comments:

  1. Yum! Yum Yum is all I can say! And the bacon form the earlier post sounds fantastic. I'm with you about the nitrates. Luckily since I don't have wild pigs about, we have a local butcher who makes free range and nitrate free small goods!

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    1. Boy, you are lucky to have access to such smallgoods! When I do my final posts on the pancetta and bacon, you will have to tell me how they look in all their lameness.

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  2. Your fall garden is producing beautifully, look at all that lovely variety!

    I think out of your vegetables, leeks are the only one I've had success growing.

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    1. I am quite pleased with the variety, although I am severly lacking peas and onions, the chooks ate them all! What are your sucessful fall garden crops?

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  3. I need to start growing more Asian veg, I'm envying you your womboks and I seem to be going through a stage of Bok Choi obsession and I grow neither. Silly eh?

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    1. The best thing about both is that they are both so simple and quick to grow.

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  4. Beautiful harvest and love how yummy that cabbage and cauliflower look.

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    1. Thank you Jenny, Tiny cauli but still a free and green one!

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  5. The savoy cabbage is beautiful! But those poor little beets. :) I'm sure they will be tasty in spite of being hairy.

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    1. The satisfaction on the wallaby's face is almost worth the beets looking hairy and being tough.

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  6. Lovely harvests! I have never had success growing cauliflower, so even a small head is a gardening miracle to me. Enjoy that delicious quiche.

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    1. I don't think you are alone. I have grown them for several years and had mixed outcomes. Sometimes very good and sometimes very ordinary. Still the flavour is worth it.

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  7. Great harvest. It's fun to see what someone on the other side of the world is picking right now. All our cool weather crops our gone and we are waiting for the summer crops to kick in!!

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    1. Fun isn't it? It also inspires my planting for the next season looking sat your summer harvests.

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  8. Very pretty. The beets look good for being munched on so much.

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    1. Poor little beets, still it made the wallaby happy. The poor old wallaby that visited our garden died the other day - of old age. He was very, very old ( Old man Wallaby we called him) and he hung around our patch for easy pickings. Poor old thing at least he enjoyed our garden - peaches and beetroot mostly.

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  9. Very nice harvest. A great selection from the depths of winter.

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    1. After the horrible summer this is very satisfying - great plentiful produce and very little being bought. Imagine if the chooks hadn't eaten the snow peas!

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  10. Your cabbage and beets look wonderful! Congrats on a great harvest!

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    1. Thank you Ms Bee, I think the beets will be a little woody.

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  11. Getting ready to seed fall crops here so your post is inspiring! Love that you are sharing with a wallaby! :-D

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    1. I too love looking at the northern hemisphere harvests and find them inspiring as well. Our chief wallaby raider, a very, very old chap, died the other day, I suspect of just old age. It was sad as he had become a regular visitor to our front paddock and I got used to him just hanging around in the distance. There will be other wallabies around I am sure, but the old man was kind of special.

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