Harvest time

Isn't it amazing when all the effort that you have put into something finally pays off. All of the nurturing, pruning and the watering is all worthwhile when you get this.

Isn't it great! I've just noticed the rather large scary knife in the corner of that photo...you can guess the fate of the tomato a few minutes after this!

It was closely followed by this...

And then this!!

It's been so great seeing some proper harvests come into the kitchen. We have frozen most of the chillies and eaten the tomatoes. There are plenty more ripening though so I plan to make some sun dried tomatoes with the next lot. Well, oven dried - this is England.

This is what it's all about - popping out onto the balcony on a sunny evening to pick some bits to go with tonight's dinner.

I hope everyone else is enjoying some nice homegrown additions to their meals at the moment!

The first harvest!

It's a momentous occasion - our little garden has just produced it's first crop! The mixed salad was looking very nicely grown:

So I look some scissors to it, and here's the finished product!

I was pleasantly surprised by the amount that we got out of it. Plus, it tasted absolutely lovely!!

Heathly dinner!

I should be able to repeat this process about 3 more times until the plants are done. Next time I am going to try to plant the seeds in rows so that they are easier to thin out - this time they were a bit of a mess and difficult to see what was what.


Does anyone know what the salad is with the red stem? That was my favourite.