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[Strawberry patch]

Coffee for me, ta.

I've just split a whacking great batch of ratatouille into those square foil containers. Now I have to work out how to get these into the already full to bursting freezer.

I may have to trade space with some frozen rhubarb, with which I can start a batch of wine off.

The only thing there is that mum gave me a wine-batch worth of apples the other day, and a load of cooking apples and I have only so many buckets/demijohns. Might be able to foist the cooking apples onto the Next-doors. Hmm.

Here yeah go Hazel

[Hazel at the Hill]

Right - sitting here isn't getting anything done!

I bought 10 cauli and 10 cabbage seedlings from HBase yesterday, so I must go to the Hill and weed the front bed then plant them out. I have some leek seedlings to go out too.

Then pick beans and courgettes.

Then come home and work out what the heck to do with them!

[Bren In Pots]

My husbands auntie & uncle are up for the weekend so I'm going to take great pleasure in showing them the greenhouse.

Don't know what else we will be up to. I have a feeling we might be filling in the cracks on the ceiling in the hall (2 an a half years on and the house still isn't finished.)

Natalie its good when you've got someone new to admire your crops

[Bren In Pots]

Right - sitting here isn't getting anything done!

I bought 10 cauli and 10 cabbage seedlings from HBase yesterday, so I must go to the Hill and weed the front bed then plant them out. I have some leek seedlings to go out too.

Then pick beans and courgettes.

Then come home and work out what the heck to do with them!

Hazel I've just found 3 courgettes hiding so they'll be turned into fritters and the rest grated for the freezer.

[Dorothy rouse]

Right - sitting here isn't getting anything done!

I bought 10 cauli and 10 cabbage seedlings from HBase yesterday, so I must go to the Hill and weed the front bed then plant them out. I have some leek seedlings to go out too.

Then pick beans and courgettes.

Then come home and work out what the heck to do with them!

I do feel slightly responsible Hazel, so do hope you 'enjoyed' planting them and they grow well.

Please don't mention 'courgettes', every time I manage to reduce their numbers or give some away, another 6 appear!

[veggiechicken]

Hazel I've just found 3 courgettes hiding so they'll be turned into fritters and the rest grated for the freezer.

What do you use the grated courgettes for Bren?
Apologies = Good afternoon everyone.
I've been testing which spiky/stingy plant is the most painful while I've been clearing the old fruit bed. The contestants are - bramble, worcesterberry and nettle. Fortunately, the gooseberries are elsewhere. There's always a bright side to everything

[Bren In Pots]

What do you use the grated courgettes for Bren?

They're supposed to be used in winter for soups, cakes or more fritters. but they get added to everything just to use them up.

Have to think of something to do with them because there's only so many jars of courgette pickle you can eat in a year.

[veggiechicken]

Thanks Bren I've been chopping some into chunks and bagging them up with surplus tomatoes - for the freezer. The plan is to pull out a bag and add it to soup or pasta sauce. Never done it before but it should work

[Bren In Pots]

This is my latest favourite courgette bake recipe :-

Joel’s courgette pasta bake | Nip it in the bud

and its just a nice without the bacon.

[Martin H]

I'm throwning away courgettes just now so I was hopeful for a minute there Bren, but I ran into my usual recipe problem: what to substitute for ingredients I haven't got.

It might work leaving the broad beans out completely; but organic tomato and herb stock is something I just never have handy. I could probably find a recipe for that, but cooking things in order to cook other things just seems like too much faff.

I guess I'll have to continue composting the courgettes

[Glutton4...]

Peel them Martin, and grate them up. Leave in a colander to drain, whilst you grate some cheddar, and dice some feta. Bung it all together, season, and make into patties. Then shallow fry them.

[Martin H]

Ooh that sounds easier, G4! Any substitutes for feta? If not, how big to dice? Rough proportions?

[cariann88]

Good afternoon I think it is about time I moved from bed and start preparing tea before I go to work. I am just soooo comfy here at the moment!
I need to go into the garden and water my veg, they look a little dry. And I need to move my over veg what's in containers somewhere where they can keep dry. I am sure all this rain is doing them no good.

[Dorothy rouse]

2 'courgette and cheese quiches' being made, one with extra mushroom, the other with homegrown toms.

Also large ratatouille made, and a lemon drizzle cake ( nice)

[Strawberry patch]

Good afternoon peeps..Managed to get a few hours shut eye this afterooon after my early rise this morning..I feel a lot better after that..Its brightened up here a bit this afternoon..Gonna go and start preparing dinner..I"m starting to get hungry peeps..