First week back at work, so I’ve not been able to get out into the garden as much as I would like. As a result, I’ve prioritized harvesting ahead of weeding and am just going to have to let whatever is in pots languish a little longer until I can get them into the ground when the chance arises. The good news is that homegrown vegetables are finally starting to appear on the table in respectable amounts, which is always very satisfying.
1. Some smallish but very tasty carrots, ready to be roasted. Mostly Nantaise 2, with a scattering of some leftovers from a packet of rainbow hybrids. Two full beds of carrots seem a bit excessive, but I’m hoping to make them last in the ground into January this year with mulching and bed covers. Then they can be pulled and stowed away in the root cellar until spring!
2. This is my first year growing any beetroot, let alone golden beets. These are looking a bit small, but they were also more crowded than they should have been. I used some of the greens as kale replacement in a soup a while back, and that worked out nicely. We’re already fans of red beets, so I can’t see how golden ones wouldn’t go over well in a mixed vegetable roast.
3. Purple kohlrabi! It is also my first year growing these. Really, it’s my first year growing any brassicas, and I’m pretty pleased with the results so far. These are purported to taste like broccoli stems, which I like very much. Though it’s nice to grow things we’ll like eating, I admit that just having these around has been great fun. They are just so wacky-looking that everybody stops to do a double-take.
4. Some pretty burgundy Asiatic lilies. They’re this amazing dark chocolate cherry color that really stands out in the garden, and it’s been fascinating to watch the buds turn from green to purple as they mature.
5. Unnamed bedding dahlia from a mixed packet of bronze-leaved plants. The stripe down the center of the petals is so cute!
6. Panicle hydrangea Angel’s Blush is very tiny but doing its best. I hadn’t expected this thing to bloom at all, since it was just a small twig last autumn. Hoping it fills out a bit more next year.
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10 responses to “Six on Saturday | 26th August 2023”
A very pretty dahlia indeed. I must say I have never tried the kohlrabi, I have seen it around but never known what to do with it.
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I admittedly chose it for its looks first and it was just lucky that I happened to like the taste too 😀 I had to Google for recipes, but there are plenty out there! So far, I’ve used it in an oven roasted vegetables platter and next I’m going to try it raw in a salad with apples, at Fried’s recommendation.
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Beautiful vegetables ! Carrots/parsnips will be in my next Six I guess, and speaking of kohlrabi, I grow that too. My favorite dish is a salad with cubed raw kohlrabi, cubed apple (choose a juicy variety like Cox Orange) and you can add chickpeas or stalk celery. Cider vinegar, oil and pepper salt. Yum !
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Thank you! I look forward to seeing your haul as well. Trying new vegetables is so much fun, I will have to see what else I can find for next year! I will definitely try that recipe with the next few that I harvest, especially since our sweet eating apples should be ready very soon.
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Love those purple Kohl rabbi and those good looking 🥕carrots! Harvesting vegetables is a very satisfying thing. I also am growing some sunflowers this year for the first time that we’re from birdseed! I dropped them in some window boxes, accidentally and they sprouted! 🌼
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Thank you! I look forward to seeing your accidental sunflowers, too. Mystery flowers are so much fun.
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All your veggies look so tempting. I used to grow a lot when the family were all living here, but its just me now so I make do with a lot less. I do like your dahlia, very unusual with its go faster stripe!
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Yes, I was trying to think of what to call the stripe and that’s perfect 😀
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A lovely selection and those carrots and kohlrabi look fantastic. I never had much look with carrots. I’m sure your Hydrangea will get more robust with time – it has very pretty, delicate flowers.
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Thank you, and I really hope so! It arrived as a tiny thing last year and took so long to start growing this spring, I was certain I did something terrible to it!
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