It would seem that I have not been particularly diligent about photographing harvests this week. This is, in part, due to the end of daylight saving which saw the clocks go back an hour, bringing forward dusk and the end of photographing dinner ingredients just before they hit the pot. I will have to get more organised and harvest earlier in the day now.
I feel like I’ve picked a lot this week but just not many photos. I do, of course, have photos of chillies:
This particular basket also includes ingredients for a vegetable stir fry I made to go alongside the lemongrass chicken I posted about last week, and used this lemongrass and spring onions to make.
These eggplants became caponata and a very big thankyou to Robin for reminding me about this wonderful dish.
The parsley, chilli and oregano also went into the caponata. The passionfruits went straight from here into my mouth.
Below is a basket of bits and pieces that I collected as I pottered round the garden yesterday. Some more Kipfler potatoes, coriander, chillies and a few cherry tomatoes.
I am still harvesting cherry tomatoes from a couple of plants although the majority have been pulled out to make way for the garlic I plan to plant this week.
Today’s harvest of green beans, pak choi and herbs for a noodle soup failed to make it in front of a camera which is a shame because they looked lovely as well as tasting pretty damn good. The other thing I forgot to photograph was a solitary cucumber that I picked during the week. I have pulled out all but one of my plants which has a couple of potential fruits on it.
Finally, as anyone who read my fig and pecorino post will know, I also harvested figs this week. Lovely they were too and I have a some more ripening nicely for this weeks harvest.
For more ogling of fruits and vegetables head over to Daphne’s Dandelions and see harvest from around the globe.
We are lucky in that our clocks went forward giving us daylight later. To be honest I just wish they stayed so we have daylight later in winter too but it seems our government can’t make up its mind about that!
Oh I agree Sue-so wish we could stay on British Summer Time!
I wish they would too.
Some great looking harvest you have there! Love the figs!
Lovely harvests and if the items that made the pictures are any representative, the ones that didn’t get photographed were pretty fine too! 😀
You are still getting a nice variety of things. The fall transition can be a fun harvest time as you still get the tail end of the summer warm loving crops, and the addition of the first fall greens etc.
I do enjoy this time of year harvest wise, I could do with a few more tomatoes and capsicums though, the capsicums have been particularly disappointing.
Are those Habeneros in the first photo? I was thinking how much ‘heat’ was in that basket if they were. Lovely chillies either way. I still have fig envy here but I am giving my green ones daily pep talks!
No, not habeneros although I guess they might be a relative – a much milder relative, the seeds were called ‘scotch bonnet’but I’m sure they’re not known by that name anywhere but Oz. I feel your peps talks are bound to bear fruit….sorry couldn’t resist I am partial to a bad pun…
All those lovely goodies are making my mouth water. There’s nothing quite as tasty as home grown, I’m looking forward to my own harvests in a few months time.
Beautiful baskets as always. The colors as so complimentary, but those flavors together must be the real go getter! I’m sorry to hear you’ve lost your hour. We’ve just gained ours so we are celebrating here. I can’t stand that. 🙁 I’ll pout with you. It would be so much easier if they left it alone.
I agree, especially as the kids have taken the opportunity to get up ridiculously early every morning since the clocks went back…
Those are wonderful harvests. So pretty and varied. I’m only hoping for figs this year. I’m guessing not, but I’m still hoping.
Your figs are lovely. We had a “hot” spell and my fig tree in storage had leafed out so I decided to harden it off. Had to bring it back into the garage because of the “back to normal temp” last week. Hope I did not cause any damage.
I hope so too – they are one of those delights for the home grower aren’t they?
Liz, I’m disappointed: you published one photo without a chilli in it! Maybe figs and chillis might be a good combination? Maybe? No….
I’m thinking no to figs and chilli – I like it with most things but there is a line….isn’t there????
I am amazed by the continued variety coming out of your garden! Everything looks quite healthy, too.
Editting is everything…I have a lot of powdery mildew and lots of fairly sad looking plants but I’m good at hiding them..
I am very good at hiding them too ;-).
Another great harvest Liz, your noodle soup sounds just the meal for this time of year and a good way to use up little bits from the plot.
Very true – I also find gado gado, or stir fry great when you’ve only got bits and pieces.
Colourful harvest as always Liz. I am still trying to adapt with the change of time at the moment and like you don’t have much time taking photos of harvest. We still need to adjust with the afternoon watering time, end up watering them in dark these few days. I wonder if you like to swap pepper seeds with me this years. You have very interesting variety there. I especially been admiring those bonnet shape peppers.
I would love to swap chilli seeds. I have those scotch bonnet chillies which are quite mild, a long cayenne, a normal cayenne and some others in the garden at the moment. I have soem others but none that I’d recommend. What do you grow?
I have banana capsicum, cherrytime capsicum, golden calwonder capsicum and others ripening. Some I can’t recall their name at the moment. I am still collecting them at the moment since pepper season has just started so the earliest I can post will be in May. Do you like to swap tomato seeds too?
Yes to tomato seeds – I will drop you an email with everything I have and if you let me know what your interested in then that would be perfect. Are the capsicums you mention above chillies or capsicums?