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lettuce & spring onions ( this will go with our home smoked salmon & trout starter)
Rainbow chard, rainbow carrots, kale, peas, swede (this lot will go lovely with our home reared turkey main course)
Peas, lettuce, mizuna and a nasturtium flower plus strawberries for lunch. Carrots, spring onions (grass-like but nearly a year old) and purple mangetout for a stir fry for tea.
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy
Picked and cooked, our first rhubarb crop. Only purchased a crown earlier on in the year. On closer inspection, we now have two plants. It's in a place with a bit of growth room, so should be better next year.
Raspberries - a jug full - had some with peaches and strawberries for breakfast.
Picked lots of odds and ends and turned them into a stirfry for dindins :- mangetout, peas, French beans, onions, courgettes, turnips. bolted cauliflower and calabrese.
Love this time of year - so much to eat at the end of the garden
I don't have an abundance of anything this year, no doubt as a direct result of neglecting the veg patch lately due to work demands.
None the less, today I harvested one small courgette, three unimpressive red onions and three garlics that haven't even divided into cloves The onions were left over in the ground from last year, and the garlics didn't go in til spring as I had a bad back in November, which is when I would usually have expected to plant them. Still, the ratatouille I made was really delicious. I also harvested some salsola and put windowsill basil and oregano in the rats.
We're pulling a lettuce every couple of days (all sorts of varieties), the children are grazing on pea pods and raspberries as they ripen, but other than that there's nothing very impresive happening.
Is there anything that isn't made better by half an hour pottering in the veg patch?
Three strawberrys - the last for this year and ONE Blackcurrant . Big, fat, juicy and not very sweet. There was only 3 fruit, it was only planted earlier this year, so there's hope for next year maybe
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