I did a lot in the garden this week. I planted out my capsicums & eggplants, I pulled out the broad beans, and I mulched and mulched and mulched. I also got around to the occasional harvest. We had broad beans and more broad beans – our final of the season (plus some very skinny leeks & a radish that’s still in the fridge):
The broad beans were once again used in pasta and also in the green garlic dish I made last Thursday. Here is the green garlic and the mint I used:
This week I also used some celery and parsley as well as some thyme and bay for stock.
Although I only managed one shot, my most used produce this week was chard. We had it in curry (again), as well as with salmon and in a a minestrone. This was (I think) the bunch for the minestrone.
Finally I did manage to photograph a few of the many spring onions which this week were used in both noodles and in salads.
That is all I managed to capture in a week which culminated in a yesterday evening trip to Accident & Emergency, after my partner tripped on our 2 year olds trike and dislocated his shoulder. Ouch!!!!
For (hopefully) few accidents but a range of exciting harvests head on over to Daphne’s Dandelions, its always fun.
Sorry to learn about your partner’s accident Liz. Hope he is not in too much pain. Great harvest, do you blanch your celery? It looks so tender.
Thanks Norma, I don’t blanch the celery – I was thinking I might grow two plants side by side and blanch one and not the other to see if I could notice much difference. I have to say I’m usually pretty happy with what I produce without blanching though.
You may not celebrate Thanksgiving there, but what a lovely harvest, fit for a feast!
You’re right we don’t celebrate it – but I’ve always thought that its a shame we don’t have an equivalent as I do very much like the sentiment. Happy Thanksgiving to you!
Beautiful harvests! Those chard leaves look beautiful and untouched by slugs or other bugs. The celery and broad beans are pretty yum looking too. I love it when the garden gives up a variety of things including some green garlic and green onions to cook with – makes for much more interesting eating.
I think that must just be a good camera angle with the chard – it usually has its fair share of holes…..usually slugs….
Such a pretty harvest! Those trikes will get you every time…
Oh I know, although I was dutifully sympathetic and did very much feel for him there was a small part of me that did very much want to laugh…..
Liz nice harvest. Love the celery. Would like to try that next year.
Thanks – I enjoy growing celery and have it cropping pretty much all year round.
Fabulous harvests and I must say that you have a very good eye, I love your photos. You’ve been planting the very same things that I’m on the verge of pulling out. The cold, wet, short days have put the summer veggies on a quick path to oblivion.
Thanks Michelle, I enjoy talking pictures and I think I’m very very slowly getting better at it. Our seasons do seem to be very much a mirror image of yours – I had much the same experience last May and no doubt will again next May….
Beautiful! Would love to grow a bay tree; but I’d have to bring it indoors for the winter and the last one I saw at a nursery had a $50 price tag!
Wow they are nowhere near that expensive here – I think I paid about $10 for mine – its still fairly small but its happy in a pot outside here all year round.
Youch! Kids’ stuff. I cut the heel of my foot on a bit of lego once. Surprisingly painful for such a small toy. Your produce looks fantastic. So healthy. I just fed my silverbeet to the chooks – it had bolted. I really love it in the garden though so I must get some more going. What is green garlic? Is it garlic that’s not quite ready or is it a type of garlic?
Lego can be trecherous! My silverbeet from last year bolted as well – this lot I planted in about August I think. Green garlic is garlic which isn’t quite ready – ie before the top part of the plant has died down. It can either be before or after the bulbs have started to develop. You can eat the whole lot – bulb and stem and you dont have the peel it – I highly recommend it!
What a fantastic harvest! The season is really picking up! Congrats!
Ah yes – roll on the tomatoes…..
Sorry to hear about the accident. 🙁 That sounds painful. Your harvest looks wonderful.
~Lynn
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Beautiful harvest photos, lovely broad beans, I can’t wait to grown them again.
Wonderful harvest, your celery looks great one veg i’m yet to grow. Do you juice any of your vegs?
No I haven’t juiced any – I don’t really have enough volume of anything to do much other than eat it. Its a nice idea – I do like fruit/veg juice mixes so it would be worth a try.