Gluts Gluts Glorious Gluts! What do you plan to do with all your excess produce this

[Chocolate8me]

Jams (strawberry and gooseberry (together) being made shortly) tomato and chilli chutney, chilli jam and usually, a freezer full of runner beans, although as said by others before me, this year could be more famine than feast..

I wouldn't mind the recipe for your tomato & chilli chutney? Sounds really nice


I forgot to mention I have such a glut of tomatoes that I've given up with them now (slugs attacked a lot of them & an attack of mold spores in the greenhouse didn't help). Still got a load in the summer house and kitchen windowsill that need ripening!

[Thelma Sanders]

My tomato 'glut' this year meant only half as many jars of passata as normal and there were no spare courgettes for chutney only 1 hooge one I had given to me with a request for marrow and ginger jam
So there's no ratatouille this year either

Lots of rhubarb frozen so will make rhubarb and (bought) apple chutney soon.
Raspberry jam already bottled.

Braised red cabbage made and frozen in portions - the cabbages have done well this year, it's a shame I don't like sauerkrut LOL Think I'll end up making bubble&squeak and freezing that

Peas and beans are frozen in portions - so not a bad year all told

[binley100]

No courgette glut for me this year . For the first time ever they were pathetic... but I have gallons of passata , even got toms frozen red and green (for pickle) . Also a glut of chillies and beans (runners and french ) all either frozen, dried or in pickle ......apart from the courgettes and the lack of red plums, this year has turned out better than I thought it would due to the sploshy start......

[WilliamD]

Pickled this year's first crop of radishes today. Boil vinegar, sugar, salt, peppercorns and pour over sliced radishes and onions. Hope it's nice.

[ancee]

WoW! My radishes are but sproutlings at the moment!

[WilliamD]

Yes I got lucky - sowed them under a mesh mini tunnel back in mid-March and forgot about them!

[AkionTotocha]

By the "more than two" definition of 'glut', my single gooseberry is not anything to post about!

But the plums are doing pretty well. There's a branch about two meters long which -at the start of the season- was about a foot above my head, is now hanging at eye level, covered in miniature green plums no bigger than the finger nail on my ring finger

So probably jams, and I've been looking at home brewing too.

[rosiepumpkin]

Lettuce soup is lovely and so is braised lettuce.