In this basket there are French Beans, Runner Beans, Chillis, Peppers, Beetroot, Lettuce, Tomatoes, Tomatoes and more Tomatoes. Naturally I am especially pleased to be able to show off some tomatoes, since with all the issues I have encountered it seemed at one stage that I might get none at all this year.
The big tomatoes are "Dynnye", (the orange one) and "Larisa" (the pink/red one):
This week also saw the harvesting of my first Runner Beans - hooray!
Actually, I picked two lots:
Jointly it was enough for us to eat in the way we normally celebrate the arrival of the first beans of the year. We have them as a Starter, plain boiled, served with butter and black pepper, with a piece of bread - in this case some of Jane's home-made Juniper and Thyme focaccia. Having them this way allows you to appreciate their flavor without it being confused by flavours of meat etc.
I picked this "Predzvest" cabbage too.
Unfortunately, when we cut into it, the center had been extensively nibbled by caterpillars and the cabbage had to be thrown away. However, I immediately cut another just like it, so we still had cabbage for dinner. I found this chrysalis on the underside of the cabbage, so I guess the guilty party was inside. Does anyone recognize it? 
The French Beans are my old favourites "Cobra", a decent quantity this time - about 325g: 
The two pale-coloured peppers seen in the next photo are "Ohnivec". They will supposedly turn red when ripe, but I just wanted to pick a few early on, to see what they are like when green. A taste-test is in order, I think.
Last thing for me to mention this week is another 420 grams of Blueberries: 
This is my contribution to Harvest Monday, and I expect lots of other people will have been harvesting nice crops this week, so why not drop by and take a look...?
