Red and green Oak leaf
Red and Golden Cos
Rossa Di Trento
Brown Mignonette
Enjoying it in Egg and Bacon sandwiches
& Side salads
Plenty of Chard and Perpetual spinach.
A few odd potatoes and parsley.
I also picked the first crop of Medlers.
Its an unusual fruit, small like a crab apple and its ripe or ready to eat or cook with when its bletted, when its soft and brown.
Its a little dry and taste like apple with cinnamon.
The fruit isn't quite bletted yet maybe a few more days and then i will attempt to make Medlar Jam and Jelly...........should be interesting!
Lettuce,Baby Leeks, Parsley, and last years curly kale still going strong.
Joining in with Daphne and Harvest Monday a weekly post on what's been harvested from your plot ........................
I am a bit envious of your lettuce, I have had lettuce all year and my current crop was going really well until Mr 2 decided to do some 'weeding'. Arrrrgh!
ReplyDeleteMr 2 might need his own garden bed soon.......hope he pulls weeds too!
DeleteTasted medlar for the first time last year, did not like. Great lettuce varieties.
ReplyDeleteThey do have an unusual taste, not for everyone!
DeleteNever heard of Medlers fruit before - learn something new everyday. The lettuce looks tender and good and your garden beds look very productive. The curly kale tree is impressive - that is quite a stalk on it.
ReplyDeleteWell, there is something new for me. Interesting. Love the view into your garden bed.
ReplyDeleteI read about medlers last year. This is the first picture I've seen. So exciting! Can't wait to see your jams and jellies made from this. :)
ReplyDeleteI've never even heard of a medler fruit before.. always exciting to learn something new!
ReplyDeleteI've never head of medlers before. Cool!!
ReplyDeleteI've never even heard of that fruit. Curious looking thing, too.
ReplyDeleteI like your curly kale tree, it looks like something out a Dr Seuss book.
ReplyDeleteA bit more info on the Medlar tree:
ReplyDeleteIts a small tree in the Apple family, i chose it for its size(not to big) and its beautiful blossom in spring,bright vibrant green foliage and then in Autumn its leaves turn bright orange.
The tree is very hardy and has survived through 7 years of drought with buckets of water occasionally. Frost hardy to -8C (so far)
I'm hoping the jam/jelly tastes ok but even it it doesn't the fruit look pretty interesting in the garden and the birds like them too!
Very nice harvests! Most of my lettuce is gone in the heat, tho some small experimental patches are giving a few leaves before they turn bitter. Have never tasted medlars but they are on my list of trees to buy someday!
ReplyDeleteI have a list of trees I'd like to buy one day too, starting with a couple of Oak trees for truffles.....
DeleteVery nice harvest!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jenny!
DeleteI am very intrigued by your Medlar tree! So cool!
ReplyDeleteYou know, as funny as it seems, I miss pulling lettuce form the garden! We had a short lettuce season here this spring...it all went bitter quite quickly with all our warm weather!
We have very hot summers too so lettuce can have a short life, and we have mild winters(some frosts though) so we can just about grow them for 9 months.
DeleteI agree about your kale 'tree,' I love it! It definitely looks other-worldly.
ReplyDeleteThe Kale just wont stop growing............it has a life of its own!!
DeleteI love the look of your garden beds Andrea. I used to have bacon and egg sandwiches every Sunday morning when I was growing up, it's been ages since I've had one thanks for the reminder. :)
ReplyDeleteHey, I just watched a River Cottage episode about Medlers (I going through a bit of a River Cottage addiction at the moment). Can't wait to see the results of the jam and jelly. Your garden always looks so wonderful Andrea, it really inspires me. Pity it's very late at night (I really should go to bed, but I'm waiting for Miss One to wake up for a feed, usually around 11pm, though she's running late tonight it seems) otherwise I would go out and try to whip my beds into some sort of order - it's the weeds in control here at the moment.
ReplyDelete