just came down from the back gardens with a collection of 5 chocolate capsis and a big cos lettuce together with some spinach for a salad for dinner tonight’s. That’s what it’s all about isn’t it.? the silverbeet looks great too. planted billions of seeds today. a shady job for a hot day. talk about feelgood:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
:clap:yum – sounds delicious! You’re right! It does makes you feel good when you can harvest your own yummy home-grown produce. :tup:
I’ve been picking broccoli, sugarloaf cabbages, silverbeet, a few different types of lettuce, kale and some red cabbages – I just love the colours! – all those leafy type things, but since the weather has warmed up, I have noticed a few little grasshoppers appearing
just put one in the salad. a bit of a disappointment really. not chocolatey at all.:jawdrop: i would say they tasted more like a green one. I thought they would have a richer flavour.
We’ve been harvesting the broccoli. Tis sooooo much different to eat it from the garden. It has a completely different taste! We noticed it straight away! so different. This is our first year at growing more than just a few tomatoes and beans. Im very pleased with the outcome. Our leeks are still coming along…bit small at the moment, but the leaves are really starting to go to that flat strappy look, so Im excited about them as well. Our cabbages arn’t heading though??? I think hubby planted them a little bit too close together, and our cauli’s didn’t head either? same deal too I think? its truly exciting to eat fresh though! Well done to all of us for doing it, or at least trying it. 😀 :tup:
Oh cool…we had an exceptionally warm day yesterday and the day before! hope this doesn’t slow them up??? Im very excited though. Am building my food foresty thing nicely. I think I might have to get me a grape next 😀
I cut into a commercial tomato the other day for a salad – Boy I had forgotten how tough the skins can be and how tasteless the fruit! I had become so used to our home grown it was quite a shock so hurry up and grow all you new tomato seedlings.
I have planted for the first time this year some Black Russian Tomatoes and am getting about 4 off a day at the mo with 4 plants. The fruit are so large and heavy the branches bend over, but still stay alive. even though we have staked them. They are marvelous things, look green or black still but great patterns inside and cut so beautifully. Eating a salad from our little container gardens, most night again now. spinach, rocket, raddicio, herbs, tomatoes, shallots, chives. so yum yum.
cfsw, maybe i will give the black russians another go. not much success last time. thought it may be too hot here for them but if you’re growing them in Rocky I guess that’s not the case.I agree the few I managed to get were delicious.
stang, i did pull the lettuce out as we eat a whole one in one sitting- 6 0f us -all saladophiles.I put in a heap of mesculan mix yesterday though so may be able to keep up with demand a bit better. Also have some frilly pink and green mignonette coming along.
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