The Garden Bloggers Harvest Day that Two Gardens have initiated is showing a generous following and we appreciate all those who enjoy getting their hands dirty and digging up delicious wholesome vegetables and picking scrumptious fruit. The new year has brought hot and windy weather to our southern shores, so summer hats and blockout is part of the gardening arsenal this month.
Let’s see what can be harvested from Barbie’s Garden this month
The year has started and I have very little to show in my harvest basket! Oh dear! Nothing seems ready for the picking quite yet – come on you lazy tomatoes!! I have lots of herbs ready and I am pleased that I can finally pick my own sweet basil. I look back on last years’ harvest, and I have to say that I have refined my vegetable choices quite a bit to what works and what I enjoy eating and growing. A good deal less to harvest, but eaten all the same! The lazy holiday feeling has not helped either! Let me show you what I can harvest now and probably harvest soon, but not quite yet ….
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Sweet Basil galore![/one_half]
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Chillies too![/one_half_last]
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Fried Green Tomatoes anyone?[/one_half]
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Still harvesting Broccoli[/one_half_last]
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Lemon balm, Thyme, Oreganum,Mint[/one_half]
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Baby butternut squash[/one_half_last]
What’s in store …
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A variety of squashes[/one_half]
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New quince[/one_half_last]
I have lots of potential lemons and figs, but these I will keep for next months Harvest Day when I can eat them!
About Garden Bloggers Harvest Day
Please join us on the 5th of every month and show us what you’ve harvested. Whether you have a massive vegetable garden or grow a few herbs in pots or just pick a few peaches from a tree … we’d love to see! It’s all about sharing our experiences, photographs, successes and failures as we “learn to grow”.
So prepare a post on your blog about what you harvested this past month, link up to us at The Gardening Blog and then, add your link to the Mr. Linky below so we can all visit your blog and “share in your harvest”. And leave us a comment! We LOVE hearing from you!
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10 replies on “Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in January”
I wish I could have January harvest days here in Toronto… Not much grows here in the winter, aside from ice crystals and snow piles.
Your harvest is much more impressive than mine, but I think mine qualifies? It’s such a treat to check in on you during your warm summer days! Thanks, again, for hosting.
Yummy Barbie…I will be joining in on Monday with my journal post…started my indoor garden…
Thanks Donna
What a great topic. My vegetable garden only provides fresh food for part of the year but even in winter I can pull out fresh frozen peas or tomatoes which is such a joy. There’s nothing quite like the taste of home grown food.
To still be able to get winter wonders is amazing. Love my tomatoes too.
Yum – I do like fried green tomatoes! And I’m so impressed with your broccoli! I didn’t even choose to grow any this year, my last year’s harvest was so unimpressive.
The broccoli is really yummy if you steam it.
What’s the secret to getting lemon balm to grow in a globe like that? Mine kind of sprawls all over the place.
Everything looks great! How are the chicken-attacked plants and planting beds doing now?
🙂 the lemon balm is contained in the patchwork area so I cut it down regularly and it grows better and bigger. This is the best it has looked.