Fresh Garden Vegies (and a cucumber too)

Parsnips, Carrots, and Turnips for dinner. This is the first parsnip from the garden this season, they take months for grow. Turnips and carrots as usual.

Cucumbers grow well inside in Dunedin. This is the first from the vine, but there is at least one other that will do well, and a total of about 10 in early stages.

Onions

Although not all harvested today, here's this year's onion selection. Red onion on the left and green on the right. The harvest was not as good as it might have been because the cabbages swamped the onions.

Purple Cauli

Dunner during week. Purple Cauliflowers loose their colour when you cook them. Didn't expect to see cauliflowers forming at this time of year - they are more frequently seen in the vege patch in November. There are 2 white cauli on their way and a green one too. This year there's no rabbit to eat them all.

State of the Patch

Strawberries


Cabbage


Beans


Cauliflower

Tonight's Dinner

Tonight's (roast) dinner included the usual bank of roast vegies, tonight from the garden. We have two types of carrots and two types of turnips.

Lynda Hallinan's Cauliflowers...

This week's "get growing" email form Lynda Hallinan has the usual ten things to do this weekend. Number seven is to plant cauliflower. Nothing to write home about, except that Lynda has got her hands on some Cheddar Cauliflower. I saw a seedling of this a few years and have searched Dunedin (and the Internet) many times since, but never seen another seedling. Lynda's came from the "Zealandia" range but, as to be expected, a search of the Internet gets me no closer to finding one. Perhaps the solution is to write to Lynda and ask where she got it from.

Rhubarb Rharvest

Rhubarb from the patch harvested today. 3.5lbs in total, and it hardly made a dent on the plants. 2lbs went into the freezer and 1.5lbs will go into a crumble tomorrow.