Summer Harvest of Mange Tout, Beans, Carrots and Potatoes

Posted on 20. Jul, 2009 by Tracey in Veg Plot

Finally I managed to get out in the vegetable garden after dodging the heavy rain and thunderstorms to do some much needed harvesting.

My Mange tout are literally bursting off the bush and some have turned into pea pods as its taken me so long to harvest them! Whether they are mange tout or mange peas they still get picked, cooked and eaten just the same.

Mange Tout Time-line

Sowed: 19th April 2009
Flowered: 22 June 2009
Harvested: 4th July 2009 (11 weeks)

Variety: Weggisser
Supplier: The Organic Catalogue

Mange Tout Weggisser

Mange Tout

A bowl full of mange tout

Other Mange Tout links in my blog you may be interested in:

Dwarf French Beans

My green and yellow french beans (also known as fine beans) are still growing and being harvested. I can’t get enough of the yellow coloured beans, I will definitely be growing them next year.

Dwarf French Bean Time-line

Sowed: 3rd May 2009
Flowered: 27th June 2009
Harvested: 11th July 2009 (10 weeks)

Variety: Maxi (green) and Major (yellow)
Supplier: The Organic Catalogue

Demi Dwarf Beans

Dwarf French Beans

A bowl of green & yellow beans

Other Dwarf French Bean links in my blog you may be interested in:

Carrots

It feels like I’ve been waiting for my carrots to grow for ages. Today I couldn’t wait any longer so I pulled a few up to check on their size. Some were ok as baby carrots and others were very tiny. So I will have to leave them for a few more weeks now.

Carrot Time-line

Sowed: 19th April 2009
Harvested: 18th July 2009 (13 weeks) – Still a bit small I will leave them in the ground for a few more weeks.

Varieties: Nantes 2 and Chantenay
Supplier: The Organic Catalogue

iGrowVeg Guide to Growing Carrots

The Carrot Runway

Carrot Bed

Carrot Harvest

Potatoes

As a vegetable gardener I do tend to get impatient waiting for things to be harvested. Some days like today when I’m harvesting other goodies, I often think I’ll just see if there’s any nice spuds I can harvest for tea. I do love rummaging around in the soil to reveal the potatoes which will soon be sitting on the dinner plate with a knob of butter and a few mint leaves.

Potato Time-line

Planted Tubers in my raised bed: 19th April 2009
Harvested: 18th July 2009 (13 weeks) – Maincrop Potatoes need 15 to 20 weeks in the ground, so the rest of my potatoes will remain in the raised bed until then!

Varieties: Cara
Supplier: The Organic Catalogue

iGrowVeg Guide to Growing Potatoes in a Raised Bed