This bright sunshine has brought on my strawberries. They need sunshine to ripen them from white to red and each morning I have a new bowlful to enjoy. Some of these actually make it back to the kitchen, but most are eaten in situ, straight from the plant, au naturel, naked with nothing on (the strawberries - not me!)
The raspberries are beginning to ripen too. The weather has been so dry for the past few weeks I leave the garden hose on the raspberries for a couple of hours to enable them to swell and ripen. This is truly one of the great garden treats! They do not make it to civilization, they are scoffed there and then!
Meanwhile back in the greenhouse these beefsteak tomatoes Country Taste are growing well. This year I am pinching out many of the tomato flowers in order to grow extra large fruit. I just leave one or two flowers per truss to see if I can grow a whopper. Watch this space!
I have more lettuce than I know what to do with at the moment. I was never very disciplined at successional sowing so I have all my crop all at once! This is just one leaf from the Labacher Ice lettuce. You can see it is about a foot across. Who would have thought that a single lettuce leaf could make a substantial salad?
You can never buy food that fresh! That's the big advantage to growing your own - and that you grow the things you really like. Strawberry season's fantastic!
ReplyDeleteWow. Your raspberries are ages ahead of mine. They are making my mouth water just looking at the photo.
ReplyDeleteYum! Those peas look fabulous!
ReplyDeleteI can almost taste them!
ReplyDeleteWhat a huge lettuce!
I bought a corguette (zucchini) today, and even though we are in the middle of our winter in oz, it doesn't feel right to get them from the market and not the garden! Roll on summer!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful harvest. I can sense those lovely tomato are stretching themselves to get bigger and bigger. Their shape is almost pumpkin! ~bangchik
ReplyDeleteWe have been swimming in lettuce for weeks on end here - very much ready for the summer crop harvests to get more robust. Harvested my first zucchini this weekend as well and enjoyed it immensely.
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