Eaten, or Nuneaton?

For a couple of weeks now we have been able to supplement our daily hot meals with some own produce, and I thought that I'd give you an update what we are currently harvesting. I distinctively remember writing the post Chard: the end of the season in May, and we have already started eating the new chard for the last 4ish weeks. This makes chard a really perfect vegetable. Depending on the weather you can almost have 9-10 months of a harvest, and it easily can be added to most kind of dishes, and the stems (ours are yellow or magenta) are nice to look at.

Then we have been eating home-grown salad, and adding corn salad (Feldsalat) to the mix of other salad varities quite regularly. A big winner, probably this year's weather helped, have been our mange tout (snow peas, Zuckererbsen) plants this year.

mange tout/Snow peas, climbing along the fruit cage, July 2014

The nice thing is that the planting of the mange tout  next to the fruit cage has really worked very well: the plant has nicely grown up the side of the cage. Oh, and finally, we are currently self-sufficient when it comes to (red) onions. I will go through some of the fruit in another post.

CHG / SG