It’s time once again for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. Raspberries are a daily feature of our breakfasts now, with red and gold varieties ripening. It’s not a big haul every day, but just enough to keep us supplied for fresh eating. I need to do a better job of thinning the canes out next time, since harvesting is a challenge and often a prickly affair! The blueberries and blackberries will be ripening soon and joining the raspberries.
red and gold raspberries
I pulled the rest of the overwintered onions last week, since I needed to plant sweet potatoes in the bed where they were growing. They could have used another couple of weeks to finish sizing up, but still made a lot. The Forum onions are not known as a long keeping variety, but these should keep us supplied for several weeks (or more) while they last. I may freeze some of them for later use in soups and other dishes.
harvest of Forum onions
And the smallest harvest of the week was the first spear of broccoli! The stem broccoli varieties typically have a small main head and numerous side shoots, so the small size was not surprising. I’ve got more plants that should be heading up soon. This first one was the Melody variety.
first broccoli spear
I got another smallish head of the Sea of Red lettuce last week. This lettuce colors up well for me both in the greenhouse and outside, and is my current favorite red leaf lettuce. It’s great for salads by itself or mixed with green lettuce varieties and other salad greens.
Sea of Red lettuce
And lastly I cut more arugula for our Saturday night pizza creation. The early planting of arugula is about done for, but I managed to get enough leaves for this time.
arugula
In other news, I baked up a batch of Moomie’s Buns last week. We use these for more than burgers, and we used a couple of these for BBQ pulled pork sandwiches we had for lunch one day. The rest went into the freezer for later use.
whole wheat buns
Harvest Monday is a day to show off your harvests, how you are saving your harvest, or how you are using your harvest. If you have a harvest you want to share, add your name and blog link to Mr Linky below. And please check out what everyone is harvesting!
I grow Toughball over wintering onions Dave, they are ready now too, so they might also work for you. They keep very well, this year we had our last one in March, from a June harvest! We have very little sun here still, so thank goodness for growing under cover, otherwise we’d have a very meagre diet! : All the best – Steve
All my favorites this week–raspberries, spring onions, arugula, broccoli and Sea of Red lettuce