Beet

Not exactly sure what I am going to do with this. Roasted with balsamic vinegar sounds nice.  Or soup.

The leaves are supposed to be tasty too

Garlicky R us

Starting to plait up the harvest.  I think I did plant too many.

Broad beans

Amazingly they seemed to get through the slug and black aphid attacks this year and were as good as Year1 (we don't talk about Year 2)

Picked most of them, still a few left to fill out, blanched and frozen - that's us sorted for the long harsh Yorkshire winter, well for Broad beans anway.

Strawberries

Slugs seem to be having a bit of a field day with these this year, or something that burrows through a strawberry eating eveyhting until it comes out the other side.

Still starting to pick enough for a meal at a time rather than huge bag fulls which you end up giving away anyway.  Breakfast and snacks a-plenty tomorrow!

Sweet peas and mini-cucumbers

Sounds like a fancy meal combination!  

Sweet peas are starting to come thick and fast and I'm not exactly sure how big a 'mini-cucumber' gets?  A bit bigger than this I imagine (7.2 cm - second time I've heard that measurement this week . . )

Garlic harvest begins

Supposed to be lifted on longest day but I think you have to modify these timescales when you're 'Up North.  Left to dry out in the shed which now smells very strongly of garlic.  I don't think any vampires will be nicking my strimmer!

Still a few more to come but they'll be OK for a couple of days.

Artichokes

They look fantastic this year.  Not sure about eating them but when they turn into flowers they do look superb.  Maybe I can sell them to someone who pretends they like them!