This is the journal of my endeavours to grow a range of fruit, veg and flowers from seed, grow organically, and my attempts to create a personal paradise with 1/2 acre of maintained gardens and 1/2 acre wild meadows. Northern Ireland's average daily high temperatures are 18 °C (64 °F) in July and 6 °C (43 °F) in January. Soil type: Clay

Monday, 9 March 2015

My itsy bitsy harvest

We've had mixed weather over the past week - snow, hail stones, sun, rain and gales. I'm ready to sow seed but, it's soooo windy that I have put it off until things settle a bit more.

Over the weekend, and in between rain showers, I picked some chard, parsley and three types of kale to go into a pot of chili. Once cooked, I thought to myself, 'it's amazing how much the veg shrinks when cooked'. However it's nice to have a little home grown veg. I  also managed to make a salad from over wintered 'Corn Salad Cavallo' (not pictured) which went great with fish pie!

With my ity-bity harvest, I'm joining Daphne's Dandelions for Harvest Monday.

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8 comments:

  1. Janneke 9 March 2015 at 12:59

    Wow, your first harvest looks so nice and fresh, it's not much when cooked, but it is a wonderful start of the season.

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  2. Mark Willis9 March 2015 at 13:19

    As they say, "Every little counts!"

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  3. Daphne Gould9 March 2015 at 13:52

    Lovely little harvest. Those greens look great. And those greens really do shrink down don't they. I like kale that way. It has some substance to it and doesn't disappear as much.

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  4. Sue Garrett10 March 2015 at 01:59

    The wind has been relentless thus year so I hope it wears itself out or moves on soon.

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  5. Jo10 March 2015 at 04:41

    Any kind of harvest is better than none. I gave up on kale as it's so bad for attracting white fly but I might give it another go again this year now that I've moved allotment sites and see if there's any difference.

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  6. Rainy Day Gardener11 March 2015 at 15:16

    I agree with Mark, ever little bits counts! In another few weeks you'll be bursting with loads of spring greens :)

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  7. REA12 March 2015 at 08:30

    Harvest looks good. I see you love your kales- me too! I know what you mean when the greens wilt down when cooking and the feeling of "what that's it." The weather is so unpredictable especially here in NY. I'm curious on the fish pie. Is that like a shepherd's pie?
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  8. Lou@RainbowChard14 March 2015 at 00:25

    It's a good harvest kelli, I imagine you must get quite harsh weather over there, so any winter crop is a bonus! In Norwich we've escaped the worst of the winter weather compared with everywhere else it seems!

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