This is simply the first post in starting a new monthly tracking list for what I’ve been mainly harvesting or what has been ready for harvest for the last month. This will change from year to year but mainly useful to track myself and also to let the people I supply know what might be coming up or available more accurately and easily than the very random contact system i’ve been using.
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 July. 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…
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
- Collards
- Lettuce – various – Deer tongue, 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
- Ginger – Standard & Myoga
- 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
- Winter Pumpkins – various
- Sugar cane – new growth
- Chili – Santaka, Aji Chanca & Amarillo
- Wasabi – fresh Wasabi leaf, stalk and stem
- Citrus – lemon, blood orange, mandarin, Tahitian Lime & Makrut Lime leaf – native limes of various sorts
- Ceylon spinach – last of the leaves and seeds
- Micro Cucumbers
- Eggplant – Thai green pea, Kamo
- Feijoa
- Amaranth – leaf and seed
- Lilli pilli – various berries
- Pepino
- Cardoon – new shoots
- Rhubarb
Herbs
- Australian native pepper – leaf
- Mints – various
- Lemon Grass
- Lemon Balm – leaf
- Coriander – Cilantro – seeds and leaf
- Parsley
- Oregano & Majoram
- Salad Burnett
- Rosemary
- Sage
- Thyme
- Nasturtium flowers and leaves
- Calendula – new flowers
- Rose Geranium
- Lemon verbena
- Field balm – Calamintha nepeta & various