Kale - Red Bore

Another delicious kale we use in stir fries, so easy to grow and we just pick a few leaves as we need them. Our local vegetable farm shop has displays of full stalks and sells as many of the leaves to customers as they require, they make a great display.

Kale-Cavallo Nero

A delicious kale that we use in all sorts of ways especially stir fries. It is a dark dull green colour with long slender knobbly leaves.

Potatoes

I dug up the rest of our potatoes today, it was back breaking work as the ground is very wet and heavy but it is very rewarding to pick the potatoes out of the earth, it is like dipping into a lucky bag. We have eaten our earlies and just finishing some Anya potatoes the earlies were blight free, the Anya's have slight blight so won't store. In the picture top row left are Desiree potatoes a main crop and blight free, next to them are Doon Pearl a second early also blight free. In the middle row right are Yukon Gold delicious yellow fleshed potatoes also blight free. Below them are Mayan Gold very similar but they have a bit of blight so will have to be used first. Next to them are two trays of King Edwards, my favorite potatoe for roasting, one row had blight, one didn't both planted at the same time, same conditions. None of our potatoes have had scab and few eel worms. I was told sometime ago to put leaf mould in the bottom of the trench when planting, this is the second year I have done this maybe that is the solution.

Tomatoes

At last the tomatoes are ripening in the poly tunnel. Soon I will be freezing the excess for sauces and the green ones that won't ripen will be made into chutney. The photo is of a common one "Gardeners Delight" we have a yellow one to try this year more on this when tasted later.

The Most Wonderful Bean

Thanks to Sarah Raven we grow borlotti beans, you can not buy them fresh in this country and they are just fantastic picked and cooked rather than using them dried. We will be having a risotto in the very near future and I will take a photo of the bean which is a lovely cream colour with magenta markings.

Todays Harvest

The broccoli and cauliflower went straight into the freezer. New experiment this year freezing whole instead of breaking into florets, blanching then freezing, worth a try.