Recent pickings and pullings

19 September 2009

That’s 98g tomatoes, a 10g runner bean, 363g kinky cucumber and 74g beetroot. Gradually more tomatoes are turning red, but they seem to revel in not quite doing so in unison, so you can’t just pick off a vine of them to parade about, they’ll be coming one or two at a time. The cucumbers on the other hand enjoy growing much faster than we can eat them; there are a couple in the fridge and two or three in the patch that need harvesting.

The first 144g sweetcorn cob gave us all a taste for dinner the other night. It was a very good taste too. We’ll be having a few more cobs to share in the coming weeks.

And then today came these six-inch beauties. Their tops looked so big poking above the surface that I just had to dig down to see how long they might be. I wiggled the first one about a bit and could tell it was good and long and so up it came, followed by its neighbour. Of course the huge pile of frondy leaves that crowned the roots are already warming up in the compost bin.

[Click to see what else is happening in the vegetable patch]