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The Early Days Of Harvest
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Sjoerd
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:29 am Post subject: The Early Days Of Harvest |
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The fruit and veg needed some harvesting today. I have not been able to get to harvesting for a couple of days now...but today I waited until it was dry long enough to touch the plants then I went to work.
First of all I picked the beans since they are very sensitive to the touch when their leaves are wet.
Here are some of those lovely 'Lady Di' runner beans. You recall, the ones with the bright red flowers?
A runner bean close-up.I cleaned and froze 1.8 kilos of these tonight.
After I got the runners picked and courgettes picked, it was time to enter the blueberry enclosure.
Here is a nice bunch of the 'Patriot' sort. They are big and juicy.
This is how much I harvested today before I had to stop and go home to get ready for work. It made eleven pots of jam this evening.
Finally a pic of the lettuces, courgettes, runners and blueberries all stalled out and ready to be taken home.
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Netty
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:54 am Post subject: |
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Oh wow Sjoerd, you sure are harvesting some great looking things from your gardens 
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eileen
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 1:56 am Post subject: |
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Oh those blueberries look absolutely delicious!! I think I'll come over and pitch a tent between your two gardens. That way I'd get the best of both worlds - plenty to eat and plenty of colour and scent to appreciate as well!! 
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petunia
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:55 am Post subject: |
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We just bought 4 blueberry bushes this year so maybe one of these years I'll have good looking blueberries also.
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Sjoerd
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:52 am Post subject: |
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Thanks alot, Netty. I am quite pleased so far. I will be glad when I hae the quota for the coming year so that I an begin giing to the Food Bank again. In fat we are thinking about beginning next week. Oh Eileen, that would be great! Maybe while you were at it, you could find a way to scare those moles away.
hahahaha.
Petunia, I expect that you will have some to eat next year already. Fingers crossed for you.
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EJ
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, you are so much further on than us. I have plenty of flowers on my runners, but no beans yet, although I did pick my first handful of purple queen french beans today. The courgettes are coming thick and fast for us and I cleared my gooseberry bushes today, still have red and black currants to sort. I don't have blueberries anymore as they need the acidy soil that we don't have. I know I could grow them in containers, but it is room! It all looks lovely Sjoerd.
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Jewell2009
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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Sjoerd your garden has really produced. Awesome! I am sure the foodbank will really appreciate such wonderful quality foods.
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Sjoerd
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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EJ-- I am surprised that we are ahead of you this year...we are always two weeks behind you. Oh well, I'm not omplaining.
Well, it does sound as though you are already beginning to harvest some things. I hope you get some nie speimens for that show you guys are entering.
Thanks Jewell--I hope that the Food Bank reipients will enjoy the food as muh as I do.
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SongofJoy57
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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My mouth is watering for one of those blueberries! @;~)
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Jewell2009
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| Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 6:45 am Post subject: |
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Sjoerd~your "Lady Di" runners look just like the "Scarlet Runners" that I love growing every year. I love them steamed with garlic and parmesan cheese, or eaten raw. Do they form a big dried bean that is a redish purple and almost as good dried as fresh?
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If a you have but two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one to sustain your life, and a flower with the other to give you a reason to live. ~Chinese Proverb
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Sjoerd
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| Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 8:53 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for your comments.
Jewell--The 'Lady Di's' could well be the same as what you grow; however, there are several red ones...so I can't say for sure.
The big, dried bean sounds like what they would look like, should I ever let one get that far... hahahaha
I pick them very young to eat fresh or freeze-in.
Well, any way you look at it..the bean is a good one visually and any way you want to eat it.
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Wow! You get "several" red blooming varieties of runner beans!  Scarlets are the only red blooming beans that are easily available here in the states. I do have Sunset and Painted lady also with peach and bi-colored blooms that are flavored similar to scarlets, but those three are the only ones I have found with colored blooms on pole beans.
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If a you have but two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one to sustain your life, and a flower with the other to give you a reason to live. ~Chinese Proverb
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The blueberry bush .... I would dearly love to have room for a blueberry bush or a few. Everything surely does look yummy.
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Sjoerd
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| Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 1:28 am Post subject: |
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Jewell--
Achievement Merit, Enorma, Red Rum, Rotbluhende (Teeny Beany), Scarlet Emperor, Sun Bright and Wisley Magic are some of the red-flowering beans available.
Thanks Daisy--I can certainaly assure you that the veg is delicious too!
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Jewell2009
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Thanks Sjoerd  I will do some Internet searches for next years gardening.
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