Monday 19 October 2015

Harvest Monday - 19th October 2015

Although we are more than half way through October now, there are still plenty of harvests coming in.

I pulled up another big batch of lovely Carrots. These ones are all "Kelly", an experimental variety, with which I have been very impressed. If it is available for next year, I shall certainly buy some more seeds.


I have harvested loads of carrots from this bed, but there never seem to be any less! As fast as I pick them the Carrot Fairy puts more in their place!


This was definitely the very last batch of Runner Beans because the plants have now been taken down.


It's not a huge number of beans, and some of them are rather poor specimens compared with some of the earlier ones, but they are still OK and certainly enough for a 2-person serving. It has been a good year for Runner Beans. I think I may well grow "Enorma" again.

Quite a lot of chillis have ripened, and I have stripped the fruit off several of the plants prior to disposing of them. Having made that big batch of Harissa the other day, I have put most of the recently-picked chillis into the freezer to use on a later occasion. As you can see, some of them are not ripe, but they will get there.


I'm still continuing to harvest Lettuce as and when required, even though I lost four of them this week as a result of the nocturnal badger / fox diggings. This one is a "Devin".


There have been a couple more little pickings of Raspberries. I am getting this amount every 3 or 4 days:



This is my entry for Harvest Monday, hosted by Dave at Our Happy Acres. Please do drop by and see what other gardeners have been harvesting this week.

8 comments:

  1. Wow ! Thats a beautiful lettuce .I always grow Little Gems and a Romaine cos lettuce ..hmmm I might look out for Devin,,if that is a washing up bowl then that is a whopper of a lettuce !

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  2. Your carrots have done really well this year, I definitely think that a raised bed is the way to go with them, it makes giving them the growing conditions they prefer easier. You've got a nice selection of chillis as usual, I'm sure the under ripe ones will soon colour up now they're in the warmth.

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  3. Your carrots have done well - your right the amount picked never seems to diminish the crop left behind.

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  4. I wish you would send that carrot fairy over to my house - my carrots could use a good wave of the wand to size up! Those raspberries are lovely too - I'll have to check to see if I have any on the canes that may have escaped our frost.

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  5. I love the idea of a carrot fairy. It's such a shame that the ^ fairy can't control slugs

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  6. Those Kelly carrots do look nice. Too bad about your nocturnal garden raider. Here the raccoons and opossums are bad. They kept our blackberry bushes cleaned of fruit this year.

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  7. I wish the carrot fairy had sown some seeds in my garden this year. :) Those carrots look excellent. And the lettuce fairy wasn't any help either, all my lettuces bolted while I was away for one week, I was shocked to see them when I got home because there was no sign of bolting when I left. The runners look really good for end of season beans. And raspberries still, how wonderful.

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  8. A superb harvest. Everything looks top notch!

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