What I’ve been mainly harvesting or what has been ready for harvest for the last month of August. August is usually a tricky month as it falls at the end of winter and is highly variable each year. 2015 we had a very cold period with a lot of rainfall, sudden storms and strong winds etc. This year it has been very similar to July.

The specific varieties available will vary on the seasons selection and the weather. But these are all examples of what have been harvested at some stage during August.

Some perennials are just pulled as needed and there are more specialist items that will come to mind… I’ll keep this up to date as I remember…

Best of the month – Wasabi leaf & flowers, Snow peas, Rocket, Fistulosum Onions, Kales, Cape gooseberry (poha), new turnips, new mint, NZ spinach, Mitsuba, field aged pumpkins, new leafy greens like red vein sorrel & Dandelions, sprouting Broccoli, Oca, Sweet potato, Citrus, Parsley, Cardoons.

Leaf

• Endive – green curled leaf
• Raddichio & chicory – Red & Green Grummolo, Treviso, Red Orchid, Catalogna
• Winter Cabbages – Red Tete Noir and Green Savoy & Filderkraut
• Kales – Lacinato Nero, Jagallo Nero, Red & Blue Russian, Green Curl, Frisada
• Collards
• Lettuce – various – Deer tongue, Devils ear, Romaine, Buttercrunch etc
• Mizuna – purple & green
• Mibuna
• Mustards
• Land Cress & Water Cress & other cress like plants
• Pak choy & other related brassica greens – various colours (Komatsuna, Choy sum, Bok choy etc)
• Broccoli – mainly purple sprouting varieties – Rudolph etc
• Sorrel – Lamb’s Head & Red Vein
• Rocket – Eruca & Wild rocket
• Corn Salad
• Spinach – various
• Silver Beet & Chard & other perpetual leaf beets  – green and coloured
• Salvia Sclarea – new leaf
• Mitsuba – Japanese wild parsley
• Red Stem Celery, Alexanders & other related
• Minutuna – Plantago coronopus
• Sow thistle – leaf
• Stridolo
• NZ spinach – Warragul Greens
• other selected salad greens

Allium family

• Chives – poly and garlic
• Leeks – Carentan
• Garlic – new shoots
• Shallot – new shoots
• Onions – bunching var and new shoots – Ishikura, Red Firenze & Tropea
• Rakkyō

Roots & Shoots (Root crops where typically leaf material is possibly also used seasonally)

• Potatoes – various
• Oca – Red, pink, white
• Yacón
• Skirret
• Sweet potato – roots and shoots – mainly Gold – some purple
• Salsify & Scorzonera -roots and  shoots
• Burdock – gobō – roots
• Beetroot – roots and shoots
• Mangelwurzel – roots and shoots
• Daikon and other radishes – roots & shoots
• Carrots – roots and leaf
• Turnips – roots and shoots
• Sunchoke or Artichoke Jerusalem –  tubers
• Dandelion – roots and shoots
• Turmeric
• Galangal
• Horse radish
• Fennel – green & bronze leaf

Legumes

• Peas – peas and shoots – Telephone
• Snow peas – peas and shoots – Yakumo
• Broad Bean – new leaf shoots – various

Assorted

• Caigua – Achocha
• Tamarillo – last fall
• Winter Pumpkins – various
• Sugar cane – new growth
• Chili – Santaka, Aji Chanca & Amarillo & Serrano
• Wasabi – fresh Wasabi leaf, stalk and stem & flowers
• Citrus – lemon, blood orange, mandarin, Tahitian Lime & Makrut Lime leaf – native limes of various sorts
• Amaranth – leaf and seed
• Quinoa
• Lilli pilli – various berries
• Pepino
• Cardoon – new shoots
• Rhubarb
• Cape Gooseberry

Herbs

• Australian native pepper – leaf
• Mints – various
• Lemon Grass
• Lemon Balm – leaf
• Coriander – Cilantro – seeds and leaf
• Parsley
• Oregano & Majoram
• Salad Burnett
• Rosemary
• Thyme
• Nasturtium flowers and leaves
• Calendula – new flowers
• Rose Geranium
• Field balm – Calamintha nepeta & various
• Prostanthera – Incisa, rotundifolia
• Winter Savoury

 Claytonia – miner’s lettuce

 Lemon Balm

 Mints – various selected

 Mitsuba

 Red Mustard – Junca

 Snow Peas – Yakumo

 Red Stem Cellery

 Winter Savoury

 Lettuce – ‘Amish Dear Tongue’

 Lettuce – ‘Freckles’ – Romaine

 Rosemary – (high oil content)

 Salad Burnett

 Lemon Thyme – varigated

 Lemon Thyme

 Alexanders

 Berula erecta – cress

 Kale – Russian Red

 Kale – Russian Red small leaf

 Kale – Lacinato Nero

 Kale – Jagallo Nero

 Kale – Green Curl

 Kale – Green Curl – small leaf