Bountiful Harvest

As usual, it's been a long time since my last post. Over the last few months, the garden has been slowly working away. Currently I have several waves of new leeks coming up, and just harvested the very last leek from the winter crop. I've begun a rotation of spring onion seedlings in pots, planting the most mature ones and potting new seeds on a four week schedule.

Celery and carrots are growing, and lettuces are suddenly all maturing at once. I've been harvesting from the first swedes over the last few weeks – they are tender and flavoursome, with an odour you don't get from the dried-out supermarket specimens.

Cabbages are slowly starting to gain ground, and I just harvested the first one yesterday. I had to strip a lot of the outer leaves because I haven't been using pesticides on the garden, so it's been chewed on a little.

The potato tops have started to die off, so I'll be pulling those out in a few weeks. One of the plants has already died off completely, so I dug up a handful of spuds.

I also pulled up our largest swede so far. Tonight, if the potatoes are OK for Annette's diet, I'm hoping to make steak and three veg using all home-grown vegetables!