Lovely fresh harvest

It's warmer outdoors than it is inside today and I have spent a couple of hours in the garden just trimming, chopping and general maintenance on the veggie plot.  I've picked a lovely bountiful harvest too. The first photo shows the salad ingredients . There's golden celery, rainbow chard, curly kale, rainbow radish. radish pods, beetroot, pak choi and a little white turnip. When I made up the salad boxes I added a little cucumber that I found hiding in the garden, plenty of tomatoes and a beautiful red pepper fresh picked from the porch. After watching a number of you tubers harvesting radish pod I wasn't sure whether I'd left it too late to let the radish go to seed so that I could harvest the seed pods. I'm really pleased to say that I have had a really good harvest from them these past couple of weeks. I will be growing some purely for the seed pods from now on. 

Rainbow radish

Rainbow chard, radish pods and a tiny white turnip

Aren't those white pak choi stalks amazing

  

The last of the garden cucumbers

                                            

                                        

                                       

For tea tonight I'm cooking roast chicken with veggies. Again all the veggies are fresh picked from the garden this morning. There's cabbage, courgettes, little round carrots, a swede, some blown sprouts

I used to discard any blown sprouts until I watched one of Steve's videos... When he said that he eats them I could have kicked myself.  All those lovely blown sprouts that I could have been eating last year went on the compost bin. 

Blown sprouts

The freshest veg anyone could ever eat. Totally organic and not a single food mile to worry about

There's also a little handful of French beans that I picked the other day. These are one of my favourite veg and I'm planning on growing a lot more of them next year.