Brae Farm Harvest Notes October 19, 2024

Hi everyone,

We are emerging from the spring hungry gap, with some beautiful new-season crops coming on. 

We're on strawberry watch, and if the weather is warm and dry early in the week, we should be picking small quantities by Wednesday. 

We'll have our first harvest of broad beans. Please let me know the preferred size. We could pick a lot at a baby size, or a perhaps a couple of plastics of larger pods. 

There should be enough baby beets for a harvest, and a few golden globe turnips. There are plenty of Tokyo turnips and radishes. 

The spring onions are looking good. They are still quite slender, but I think just big enough to start picking. We're only a couple of weeks away from also having baby purplette onions. I may have gone slightly overboard with salad onions this year so if we can please pick them early and small we'll avoid a glut in summer. 

I've added chervil to the list and we should have larger quantities of peas. At least half a basket, twice a week. 

The garlic is putting up scapes, which we will be removing. Let me know if you would like them sent to the kitchen. 

There is a bit more agretti available. I think we could find enough for 100-approx pieces if it's wanted. 

The asparagus is definitely finished. 

Thanks, 

Jo 
Jodie Lawson, Head Gardener