Let Harvesting Commence!

We may not have planted much on our allotment. It may still be half covered in weeds. But amazingly we are now managing to harvest some fruits of our labours.

 

Not huge amounts but just enough for a meal as and when we need it. And that's how it should be, rather than having a glut of something and getting fed up with eating it or having to give most of it away.

 

So the first runner beans are ready, just a few a time, but that's ok as that's enough for me. Even though they are melt in your mouth yummy, I haven't been able to persuade TK to try one yet.

 

We decided the first earlies might actually be ready a week or so early seeing as the foliage was starting to die back on them. And we were right!

This is the harvest from the first plant we dug up

 

 

TK has said he will eat the tiny one.......

Again just enough potatoes there for a meal or two for us. We dug up another plant a day or so ago and will try and do that every few days and work our way through them

 

So potatoes, runner beans and now the first beetroot. I decided one looked large enough and it was. So here is our haul from the other day.

 

 

So all in all we're really pleased with what we have achieved in a few months. The shed shop should be getting some onion sets in soon so hopefully we will have enough free ground to plant these.

I did work out a crop rotation plan the other day so need to make sure the right area is clear for them!

In the meantime, its back to the digging before the weather starts to turn.