Monday Harvest – 7th October 2013

I finally got round to spending some time in the garden yesterday.  A lot of that time was spent cleaning up, and planting summer crops – the tomatoes are in – yay!  I also found time for some harvesting.  I pulled a few parsnips to have with our roast chicken dinner.

I also harvested my last kohlrabi;

I will try growing kohl rabi again as I enjoy eating them and hopefully next time I will manage one of those beautiful globes I see on other people’s blogs.

I made a few batches of veg stock this week, full of bolting plants from around the garden.  The celery hasn’t actually bolted yet but I included a few sticks nonetheless.

The parsley has bolted so I added a fair bit of that;

as well as some cabbage, thyme, and bay leaves that I failed to photograph.  Also avoiding the camera this week were my most prolific performers; green leaves.  Aside from parsley I am currently harvesting 3 different varieties of lettuce, rocket, chervil, watercress, mint and oregano.  They make for some lovely salads.

Daphne hosts Harvest Mondays – a fab way to check out what others are growing at the moment.