My ornamental plants are starting to shed their Summer beauty for more sedate Autumnal finery, but no so the vegetables and herbs. My little veggie planters are brimming with produce waiting to be pickled and we can’t eat it as fast as its growing. I added a few new things this month. I like to plant and grow herbs that are not always available at the local supermarket. A new one is fennel which comes up occasionally in recipes. So this month I added fennel, more coriander, rocket (a red variety), I was gifted three green pepper plants (Thanks Helen!) and added a few more coriander plants as we have had to buy coriander to supplement our own home-grown.
Let’s have a look at whats going on …
[one_half]Coriander, basil, fennel and parsley[/one_half]
[one_half_last]Lemon grass and two chillis[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Tomatos are still ripening[/one_half]
[one_half_last]New colour in the veggie patch[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Cherry tomatoes[/one_half]
[one_half_last]The reddish coloured rocket[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Flat leaf Italian parsley[/one_half]
[one_half_last]The interesting looking fennel[/one_half_last]
[one_half]I bought this pepper for the foliage 🙂[/one_half]
[one_half_last]Green pepper almost ready[/one_half_last]
What are you harvesting this month? Please share with us and join in at Garden Bloggers Harvest day.
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! Its 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 on the April Harvest Day post so we can all visit your blog and “share in your harvest”. And leave us a comment! We LOVE hearing from you!
Happy Harvesting
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4 replies on “My Veggie Harvest for April”
Oh WOW!! Your patch is looking so very colourful and yummy!! That rocket looks delicious! LOVE all the new colours! 🙂
Fennel – hmmm…. I have never tried that before. I also see it in lots of recipes so gotta try it first!
Well done!
Oh, your tomatoes and peppers look beautiful. So, too, do your fennel, parsley and rocket. Love the foliage on that purple pepper plant!
Oooh, I’m almost in harvest mode here… another month and I’ll have all sorts, but right now it’s just the kale that overwintered. It’s been fantastic though — the best I’ve grown yet! (I’ve eaten a few bamboo shoots too.)
I love the almost black peppers! I’ve grown ‘black pearl’ for a few years, and those little guys are *hot*. (I’m pretty much a wimp when it comes to peppers though.)
Harvesting food from the garden is more addictive than harvesting flowers I find 🙂