July Harvests – Broad Beans, Peach, Blackberry’s, Lettuce, Cherry Tomatoes, Sweet Peppers & Mini Cucumbers

July is another month for harvests. This year I have been enjoying the fruit as well as our vegetables.

I am particularly enjoying the following harvests:

1. Lettuce ‘Outrageous’

Started Harvesting: 13 July & ongoing.

This lettuce is a cos type, low growing with a tight oval shaped leaves.

The best thing is the colour, it’s a deep red almost brown at the top and then a glorious flash of lime green at the bottom of the leaf.

The flash of green is only visible when harvesting.

2. Sweet Pepper ‘Napia’

Started Harvesting: 13 July & ongoing.

This has been a fantastic early sweet pepper.

The plants are packed full of sweet peppers, this variety has really performed well and with the joy of early harvest of red peppers in Mid July.

3. Cherry Tomato ‘Cherrola F1’

Started Harvesting: 10th July and ongoing.

These cherry tomatoes are small round balls of sweetness.

These tomatoes are really easy to grow and the plants don’t take over the greenhouse!

4. Mini Cucumbers ‘Piccolino F1 Mini’

Started Harvesting: 22 June & still ongoing daily.

These cucumbers are a great mini sized cucumber, mostly seedless inside when small.

If you don’t catch them small , they are still fresh tasting just with seeds inside. Lovely taste and easy to grow.

Harvesting at least 10 mini cucumbers a week from 3 plants in the greenhouse.

5. Broad Beans ‘Eleonora’

Harvested: 15th June to 11th July.

This variety is excellent, the plants did not get too tall and held up well to a windy location. The pods were long with approx 5 beans in.

Elenora has a great flavour when the beans pods are smaller. I would recommend this variety as there were lots of pod on the plants.

Peach ‘Inka’

Peach ‘Inka’

Harvested: 7 peaches between 9 – 14 July.

This was a columnar peach tree which means that it stays smaller. It has been protected over winter in a greenhouse and was moved outside in at the end of March in a pot.

This is the trees second year and we have fruit! The peaches were very juicy and sweet.

This variety is due to be Picked in late august however this year we had to pick early to save them from the woodlouse as some had dropped on the floor and they have been delicious.

Blackberry ‘Lochness thornless’

Blackberry ‘Lochness thornless’

Started Harvesting: 9th July & still ongoing.

This is the blackberry’s third year and it is vigorous! Good for us as the fruit harvest this year is huge.

BlackBerry’s fruit on one vine and the grow a few others for next year. This year the plant has grown two long vines for next year.

The blackberries are sweet and plump this year. My daughter can just about reach some of the fruit and loves having a snack on the in the garden.



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