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Monday 24 September 2012

Picked this week - 24th September 2012

 Considering the way Autumn is advancing I'm a little surprised at how much we seem to have picked this week.
A mini-glut of cucumbers and a couple of chillies starting to ripen.





Some runner beans - less this week but still enough for dinners













French beans too - they're cropping more this week.
A few peas  and quite a bit of red oakleaf lettuce and American Land Cress which has self set at the allotment in a row of beetroot!




Some tomatoes - mostly picked green in case the night time temperatures drop low enough for frost


A strange pepper or chilli or something. The one at the top is a cayenne pepper and I thought the lower one was a jalapeno chilli but it's grown rather large and doesn't seem very hot from my cautious testing. 

 A red cabbage that had been ignored and started to burst open so now won't keep well.

The sweetcorn hasn't been a great success and I don't think we'll get real cobs from it now so I'm going to pull them as mini corn for stir fries

Lastly a couple of beetroot and the first parsnip of the year. I'm just hoping not all of them are going to fall into the 'comedy veg' category!

2 comments:

  1. Sweet corn does seem to be a very hit-and-miss plant in gardens. Yet farmers manage field and fields of maze. I'm wondering how they manage it.

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    1. I wonder if they have grow different varieties. We were looking at catalogues for next year's seed potatoes and realised you can't buy Wilja or Marafona which commercial growers set.

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