Monday Harvest – Feb 6th 2012

I have been fairly lax on the photography front this week, although I do have a few pics.  What I don’t have is any shots of tomatoes though – we are still harvesting (despite the state of the plants) but somehow I’ve failed to capture them.  What I did capture was a typical basket – I think I have harvested this combination of things about 4 times this week.

We have been eating a lot of Middle Eastern salads lately – hence a lot of cucumber and mint.  No bad thing given we have plenty of both.

The chillies are going really well.  I harvested about 250g this week so I made my first batch of Sambal.  I use sambal quite a bit, primarily to spice up my plate after having to cook things quite mild for the kids.

We are still getting small but regular harvests of beans, the Majestic Butter & Beanette have been the pick of the varieties from both a usefulness and productivity perspective.

In keeping with my Middle Eastern and Mediterranean dishes I have been harvesting lots of herbs and greens lately, we had spanakopita for dinner tonight so a fair about of chard was in order.  This lot was from my perpetual spinach plant and I do find the green stalked chard varieties tend to be the hardiest, most disease resistant and generally productive.

I am finally getting some nice stalks from my celery plants, up til now they have been a bit skinny and slater infested but the plants are now big enough to fight back and are putting on some reasonable growth.

All in all it has been a good week in the garden, although poorly documented.  I did have to give up on my pumpkins though.  They hadn’t set any fruit, which was my fault for planting them in too shady a spot.  Sometimes its just better to cut your loses, so I thought I’d make use of the bed while it is still getting some nice summer sun.

Now its time you headed on over to Daphne’s Dandelions for the latest in harvest news.