Today was the first day of summer. In Australia our seasons start at the beginning of the month, so 1st December is officially the first day of summer. And a pleasantly warm start it was too (29C). Spring too was warm this year, so warm in fact that I have started harvesting some traditional summer crops.
My basil plants are big enough to pluck the occasional leaf off:
My September sown beans are bearing fruit:
(the varieties are Majestic Butter and Gourmet Delight plus a couple of climbing beans that self seeded from last year).
And I bandicooted the first handful of Purple congo potatoes. These potatoes are something of an unplanned harvest, as the plants are the result of a particularly poor harvesting effort last year. Their colour makes them particularly difficult to find in the dirt…
As well as all the signs of summer harvests I continue to harvest herbs and handfuls of lettuce and silver beet.
All highly satisfactory really.
As always head over to Daphne’s Dandelions for more harvests from around the world.
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