Showing posts with label Courgettes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Courgettes. Show all posts

Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Fruit of the Garden - October's Harvest

This month we've been clearing down the garden ready for the winter. There are some plants still happily producing fruit and veg but some we've decided to just take what we can and leave it there.

We've dug up the last of our potatoes (the pink fir apples):


We've harvested the rest of the tomatoes - mostly ripe and a few green:


Joe cleaned up the shallots ready for moving into the kitchen.


We've harvested our sweetcorn. It's a little undersized, but we put these plants in quite late and are glad to get something from them.


The courgette plant is still going, producing marrows and courgettes depending on our vigilance.


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Wednesday, 28 August 2013

Fruit of the Garden - August's Harvest

August has almost escaped us so it seems time to give you the summary for the month. We have had our first tomatoes and sampled our salad potatoes. I also lifted all our onions and garlic as some of them had completely died back.

Red Onions

White Onions

Garlic

Shallots

More Shallots

We didn't plant any carrots but this still turned up whilst weeding!

Salad Potatoes (Pink Fir Apple)

Courgettes

Our first tomatoes. Ever. Third year lucky (and first year with a conservatory)!

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