I don't know what it is, but everything seems slower, smaller and less "energetic" in the lotties this year. Oh well, at least there IS a beginning to the harvest. These fotos are not big on quantity, but the quality in taste IS there. Kohl Rabi, Courgettes and two types of spuds Kohl Rabi Choggia Beets (Beetroot) Cleaned---Klein maar fijn, as we say A whole crate-full of Charlotte potatos. This is from two incomplete rows only Carrots Mokum F1 and 'Sunset' Runnerbeans The Mokums (a summer carrot) A meatless supper ....all from our lottie, right down to the parsley
Your meal looks very tasty, congratulations! Do you think weather conditions have been bad for your crops? I just had lunch. Now I need to go find a carrot in the fridge. Ours will need at least another month.
Yes, I definately do think that the weather is one of the factors affecting crop performance this year. Those little carrots are not long, but they are sweet as can be!
Everything looks so nice and yummy! Sometimes quality it better then quantity! Enjoy the fruits and veg of your labor!
Your dinner looks very appatizing. I keep being told one doesn't always have to have meat with every meal. Your Kohl rabi looks interesting. I'm not sure what that is over here. But I don't think I would mind giving it a taste test, it looks good. Is it eaten raw or cooked?
My kind of meal! What I don't understand is how you can harvest so early. Here we are in the south and still waiting for toms to ripen, broccoli to form heads, summer squash to ripen. Do you use plastic greenhouses to start your plants early? The only thing I have now is cukes. Gardengater
Wow, your supper looks wonderful. Your harvests are one of the reasons I am planning on turning FRED into FRED-jable next year. I don't really care for carrots but I do hope to grow some next year....how did you prepare those in the picture, maybe I can find a recipe for them that will make me think they really are edible. Petunia, you should be able to find Kohl Rabi in larger grocery stores or ask the produce manager if he/she can include some in their next vegie order. We have it here in Kroger sometimes but I have never tried it.
Your meal looks delicious. That's my kind of meal...can do without the meat, but probably would have some cornbread with it!
ohhh yum, yum, yum, yummy!!! All of it looks so darn good. Thats the kind of dinners we eat when the harvests come in, too! ohhh i can't wait. I love Kalarabi, just love it,, i eat it raw with just a touch of salt,,,, Toni, my son hated carrots, couldn't get him to even go near them. Then i made them like candied yams.. just put carrots in instead,,, he couldn't get enough.....carrots, brown sugar, butter, salt and pepper,, thats it... try it,,,you'll like it (said in my worst, but convincing italian accent)
I fix them that way for Randy and Amanda, guess I should take a taste next time. I use the butter/brown sugar mix on Brussel Sprouts too.
Thanks folks for your gracious comments. PETUNIA: I think it is called "kohlrabi" over there as one word. Some folks eat it raw, but we eat it boiled with a nob of butter or as a constituent of a stir-fry. BTW Petunia, don't be afraid of the taste--it's not a strong flavour at all...in fact I liken it to Cardoon. GARDENGATER: I start all my plants off on the windowsill here at home beginning in February. After April 1, I start stuff off in the greenhouse. That may have something to do with the earlier cropping, but it is also true that there are different types of broccoli, calabrese, cauli's, carrots etc. that crop earlier than others sorts of the same type...so that could also be a factor. I expressly choose early types of some veggies so that I can harvest them early and then plant something else in their place.--for instance early potatos so that I can plant winter harvesting broccoli in their place. See what I mean? KUNTRYGAL: Your idea of eating cornbread with veg is something that we do sometimes. We brought back a cornbread iron when we returned to Holland years ago. TONI: Wow!..I'm amazed that my posts are prompting you to make changes to Mr Fred. Don't you go and get me in trouble now. I can already see that it's going to mean work for your man. Good luck.
Wow Sjoerd, you are WAY ahead of me in Essex. My runner beans are in flower, along with my french beans, but they are along way off setting beans. And I forgot about kohl rabi, but I might pick up a pack of seeds tomorrow and sow a couple of rows. I love them, and the leaves, and don't mind if they are small, just bigger than a golf ball. Again, my carrots and beetroot, although growing strongly, are at least 4 weeks off harvesting. You lucky blighter! I am starting to get empty patches on the allotment now as I dig the spuds, so I today ordered a pack of 40 young brassica plants, a mix of calabrese, kale and cabbage just to plug the gaps. I also ordered my Japanese overwintering onions, garlic, shallots and a pack of 25 strawberry plants, some early, some maincrop and some late ones, just to bulk up my strawb bed as after moving it last year, it is now very patchy. I will save the runners, but a little variety is the spice of life. Do you not eat the leaves from the rabi and beets Sjoerd? I am a sucker for leaves. Also, what variety of carrot are they, and when did you sow them to be pulling them so soon!
Hiya EJ-- Well the carrot is a "summer carrot Mokum F1 Hybred" I'll have to look in the little black book to see when we planted them. I have never eaten kohl rabi leaves or beetroot leaves, I shall have to try them sometime. What type of strawbs did you order? I hope that my strawbs will do ok next year. This was their first year. I agree with you about variety. I have about four different types of strawberry in my patch. I have been thinking about getting some new sorts to mix in, as these plants are ones that I have been using for donkeys years. It sounds like you've got some good stuff coming in for the next round. I will be planting "green manure" in the opening patches in the new garden as a part of the ongoing soil improvement project.
I looked-up when the summer carrot 'Mokum'was planted...it was 20 April. The carrots proper name would be: Daucus carota ´Mokum F1´
Great pictures....I love meatless meals. i try to have at least a couple a week. I am patiently waiting for my tomatoes to get larger and ripen ....we have a tomato scare in the US (samonella) and we are told to only eat them from certain areas of the US...Sherry8
