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Harvest Monday - 8th December 2014

By Mwillis
The opportunities for getting harvests from my garden are very much reduced now! This week I have not been able to contribute much to the menu; mostly salads, such as these radicchio and endive:
Harvest Monday - 8th December 2014
Actually I did also pick two other very small radicchio (seen at the bottom of the next photo), including one "Variegato di Castelfranco" (the speckled one). That particular type has been a disappointment this year. Very few of the seeds germinated, and the resultant plants were very small and weak. This may have been a problem with the one packet of seeds I bought, because in the past I have grown this variety successfully.
Harvest Monday - 8th December 2014
This small bowl of Landcress leaves was also included in the tally:
Harvest Monday - 8th December 2014
Harvest Monday - 8th December 2014  As I described yesterday, we had a very sharp frost on Saturday, but Sunday was a lot milder. Just to illustrate the difference, here are two photos of the same endive plant, taken on two consecutive days: Harvest Monday - 8th December 2014
Harvest Monday - 8th December 2014 The endives seems to have survived the frost OK. They seem to be all right if the frost is not prolonged. I imagine if we had very low temperatures for say 48 hours non-stop the plant would probably die. At the weekend we ate a Middle Eastern meal, and in my opinion most Middle Eastern meals are incomplete without Parsley, so my garden contributed this:  Harvest Monday - 8th December 2014
Picked at the weekend, but not yet consumed, is this batch of Brussels Sprouts:
Harvest Monday - 8th December 2014
As before, they are not big, but they are nice and tight, and I'm sure they will be lovely and sweet.
Harvest Monday - 8th December 2014
I keep thinking that I won't be able to participate in Harvest Monday for a while, but there always seems to be something I can harvest. That's what I like! It is so rewarding to be able to get at least something from the garden all year round.
Why not drop by Daphne's Dandelions to see what other gardeners have been able to produce...


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