I have only a small number of Strawberry plants, so I am never able to harvest them in large quantities, so the ones I do have tend to be eaten immediately or perhaps added to a batch of bought ones. I think you will agree though that deficiencies in quantity are compensated for by superior quality. Those ones are certainly fine specimens, and oh did they taste sublime or what??
I have been continuing to harvest Lettuce - by the barrowload! This is another of the "Green Oak Leaf" ones, and it was absolutely enormous:
As well as the "Green Oak Leaf" I have harvested "Cervanek" and "Can-Can". I like to mix several varieties into the same salad if possible, to give a nice mix of colours and textures.
This week has also seen me harvesting the first of my Broad Beans:
That is 552g of Broad Bean "Stereo". This variety produces small pods - these are about 10cm - and they normally have 4 or 5 beans in them. However they are reputed to be the finest-tasting Broad Beans of all. It is often advocated that you eat the pods very young, as if they were Mangetout peas.
I have harvested more potatoes. This lot is "Red Duke of York", the last of my four First Early varieties:
For the record, that is 781g, the produce of two pots, each with one seed tuber.
Since I need the space for my rapidly-expanding tomato plants, I dug up the two pots of "Sharpe's Express" potatoes too. These were the ones I left to grow on after manually removing most of their tubers. The second crop was small, and the tubers nowhere near as clean and blemish-free as the first ones, but it still produced 325g, which is worth having. They will look better after I've given them a scrub.
In addition to all this, I pulled my first few Turnips. These are mostly "Purple Top Milan", but the big, flatter one at the front is "Atlantic":
This is my entry to Harvest Monday, hosted as ever on Daphne's Dandelions, so why not go across and see what everyone else has been up to...?