And this week in gardening news...

After the carrot saga, I thought it was time for a little bit of a success story (so you don’t all think I’m a complete vegie-gardening-failure).

The following pics are from our first harvest meal (so a bit before the carrots but I’ve been too lazy/distracted/busy to write the post about it.)

The first real "harvest"which included...

kohlrabi...

broccoli...

and kale.

I'd never eaten either kale or kohlrabi before so I asked google about it (as you do). The kale and broccoli were tossed around a hot wok with the crushed garlic to make some tasty wilted greens and I peeled the kohlrabi, sliced it thinly and seasoned it with oil, lemon juice and pepper. 

The chef at work.

Dinner consisted [almost] entirely of produce from the garden, the only ring-ins were the cous cous and the toasted pine nuts. Even the sage and garlic were picked fresh:

Last year's garlic finally harvested (it was too sneaky for us last year but we got them this time)

Dinner's ready!

In more recent news I have flowers, including some beautiful dwarf sunflowers, the seeds of which were a present from the lovely Lois.

And the beetroot is doing well despite the seed being strewn in too thickly and Nic telling me they'll never grow like that and making me thin them severely: 

We have tomatoes in and learning from the punnet planting of the last crops, we've planted seedlings in stages in the hope that we won't repeat the glut situation that we had with the kale:

And we have small but VERY delicious strawberries, which reminds me, I wrote a story about 'strawbs' while I was in Edinburgh last year...

So, have I convinced you that it all hasn't been a total loss? Come over for dinner, I'll show you how good kale and kohlrabi can be...