Today I have had my first crops from the vegetable plot well one from the vegetable plot and two from the greenhouse.
Now given the fact that most of my runner beans plants have succumbed to root rot due to the very damp weather we have been having, I was amazed this morning when I was able to get to the plants to find that there was a large number of beans ready for picking. I picked 4.5kg about 10 lbs which is not bad for a row that started out as 20 plants and is now down to 5 or so. And there were still plenty of beans waiting to mature and loads of flowers still on the remaining plants, so I am hopefully of at least one if not two more pickings.
I am a firm believer that it is better to freeze beans as soon as possible after picking to preserve as much of the nutrients as possible, there is also nothing worse than going to your store of beans only to find that they have gone limp and yellow. No except for the beans I gave to my next door neighbour the ones I picked this morning are now in the freezer, in fact they were in the freezer within half an hour of picking.
The two crops from the greenhouse were tomatoes (all of three fruits) and a green sweet pepper. Both of which made an excellent addition to the salad I had for lunch, the only thing that could have made it even better was if the salad leaves were from the vegetable plot rather than the shop. By the looks of the plants in the greenhouse I should have plenty more tomatoes and peppers, so I should be OK for those for a few weeks at least. I am looking into installing a solar powered heat sink into the greenhouse to store some of the heat generated by day and then release it at night. The idea behind this is that it will help to extend the growing season by a couple of weeks or so.
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Smoothie Vegetable - by Jade, 11-23-2009, 12:28 PM
