More July Harvests of Beetroot, Spinach, Cabbage & Spring Onions

Posted on 31. Jul, 2010 by Tracey in My Veg Plot

The harvests just keep on coming, beetroot, perpetual spinach, carrots, summer cabbage leaves and spring onions are now ready for harvesting.

Spring Onion Purplette

Spring Onions

Variety Growing: Purplette

Spring Onions are quite an underrated vegetable as they do take a fair amount of time to grow. Mine are still quite small however I was really pining for a cheese and spring onion sandwich, which is a perfect lunch time snack whilst working on my vegetable plot. Needless to say with fresh spring onions this tasted gorgeous.

Check out my Guide to Growing Spring Onions for more details.

Beetroot Moneta

Beetroot

Variety Growing: Moneta

I harvested a few baby beetroots and as this is my first time growing beetroot, I don’t actually know how to cook it. Whilst I was reading Nip It In The Bud’s post on her recent harvests she mentions boiling them, which I’m going to try. If anyone has any other suggestions on how to cook them, please let me know!

For more information please see my Top Tips for Growing Beetroot.

Perpetual Spinach Harvest

Perpetual Spinach

Most of my perpetual spinach has bolted this year along with my chard, but I saved a few plants in the vegetable garden in case they might just grow into big juicy leaves and so they have.

I’m taking my chances whilst they are here and harvesting them for salads and stir fries before they flower as well.

See my post – Spinach and Chard – a bit of a disappointment.

Cabbage Spitfire

Summer Cabbage

Growing Variety: Spitfire

I am so happy with my cabbages this year! I have summer cabbage and winter savoy cabbage growing as well. I have harvested the leaves and used as spring greens, a lovely light vegetable for the summer.
For more details please view my Guide to Growing Cabbages.

All these vegetables plus my bright orange carrots produce this beautiful harvest:

Beetroot and Carrot Harvest

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2 Responses to “More July Harvests of Beetroot, Spinach, Cabbage & Spring Onions”

katherine

14. Aug, 2010

best way to cook beetroot (in canada we just call them beets!) is to wrap them individually with tin foil and put them in the oven at 400 Celsius for 40 min- 1 hr until they are softish. let them sit until they are cool and after removing them from the tinfoil push the skins off with your thumb under running water. now you can slice them, add them to a salad, toss them with balsamic, maple syrup, add mint and goat’s cheese, all sorts of yummy things. they get kind of caramelized by being baked and you don’t have bleeding beet juice water from boiling them.
thank you for all the great information (my peas just got powdery mildew)
katherine from canada
Tracey

14. Aug, 2010

Hi Katherine,

Thanks for your tips on cooking beetroot, I will definitely give it a try, especially sliced with goats cheese, yum!

Here’s the quick links to the powdery mildew help pages, just in case anyone else has this problem at the moment with their peas.
1. 5 Common Pests and Diseases or Peas and Beans
2. Powdery Mildew on Peas

Thanks again,
Tracey

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