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Have had a manic season at work, so plot took a back seat once the initial work was done in spring. But still managed to probably do better than breaking even on costs and giving ourselves a reasonable harvest overall.
This week, we are eating:
Saturday: Tomato and tagliatelle dish (toms, barely warmed in oven, mixed with balsamic, olive oil, garlic, fresh thyme and oregano and basil, and tossed into tagliatelle), with tomatoes straight from hanging basket outside
Sunday: Bacon and cabbage, with maincrop spuds (do you THINK I could remember either variety? Nope, sorry)
Monday: Brocolli soup for lunch (well calabrese)
Tonight: Courgette soup (from freezer admittedly) for lunch, and Chorizo potato bake with Anya potatoes for dinner
Thursday: Some form of chop/chicken with homegrown cauliflower (perhaps in cheese sauce) and maincrop spuds again
Friday = Nasi goreng - using up lots of courgette, brocolli, onion, last of french beans from garden, and some peas, beans and corn from freezer
I have been freezing lots of bits and pieces also, as we had spares. So there's quite a few bags of bits for stirfry type dinners in the freezer. I have a reasonable supply of onions strung up in the shed (although less garlic than I'd like). There's a few servings of soups frozen also. And I also have a marrow in the shed for the time being (oops - courgette bed really worked this year and some got away from me). Salads didn't do great this year at all.
There's still some to come - the calabrese is still going strong, I have a few small pointy cabbages coming yet (mainly ones where I took the cabbage first and then cut the stalk still in the ground for a second crop), there are a few savoy cabbages and 2 beautiful balls of red cabbage coming on. Brussels sprouts should start harvesting in the next couple of weeks, and the PSB just started last week.
I am pulling the last of the spuds - very small and low yields this year, but enough to satisfy us. Probably another 3/4 dinners in the Anyas, and another 2-3 of maincrops.
Other than that, the only thing left growing at present is the courgette bed. There are a few small courgettes to come, and the very last of the summer squshes. I have 3 small pumpkins (but they are our own!!), and a couple of winter squashes also.
There are leeks planted, but very late so they have a LOT of growing to do yet (I may get very baby ones by Dec/Jan, if I am VERY lucky). At home, the tomatoes are finally ripening, and the pots of carrots are ready to eat as well. I have a couple of pepper plants that finally have baby peppers - just hope they ripen before they get killed off! But its mainly herbs left in the garden at this stage.
And my seed catalogue arrived in the post tonight!! Sitting beside a warm fire, and about to crack that open to dream about next summer!!
This week, we are eating:
Saturday: Tomato and tagliatelle dish (toms, barely warmed in oven, mixed with balsamic, olive oil, garlic, fresh thyme and oregano and basil, and tossed into tagliatelle), with tomatoes straight from hanging basket outside
Sunday: Bacon and cabbage, with maincrop spuds (do you THINK I could remember either variety? Nope, sorry)
Monday: Brocolli soup for lunch (well calabrese)
Tonight: Courgette soup (from freezer admittedly) for lunch, and Chorizo potato bake with Anya potatoes for dinner
Thursday: Some form of chop/chicken with homegrown cauliflower (perhaps in cheese sauce) and maincrop spuds again
Friday = Nasi goreng - using up lots of courgette, brocolli, onion, last of french beans from garden, and some peas, beans and corn from freezer
I have been freezing lots of bits and pieces also, as we had spares. So there's quite a few bags of bits for stirfry type dinners in the freezer. I have a reasonable supply of onions strung up in the shed (although less garlic than I'd like). There's a few servings of soups frozen also. And I also have a marrow in the shed for the time being (oops - courgette bed really worked this year and some got away from me). Salads didn't do great this year at all.
There's still some to come - the calabrese is still going strong, I have a few small pointy cabbages coming yet (mainly ones where I took the cabbage first and then cut the stalk still in the ground for a second crop), there are a few savoy cabbages and 2 beautiful balls of red cabbage coming on. Brussels sprouts should start harvesting in the next couple of weeks, and the PSB just started last week.
I am pulling the last of the spuds - very small and low yields this year, but enough to satisfy us. Probably another 3/4 dinners in the Anyas, and another 2-3 of maincrops.
Other than that, the only thing left growing at present is the courgette bed. There are a few small courgettes to come, and the very last of the summer squshes. I have 3 small pumpkins (but they are our own!!), and a couple of winter squashes also.
There are leeks planted, but very late so they have a LOT of growing to do yet (I may get very baby ones by Dec/Jan, if I am VERY lucky). At home, the tomatoes are finally ripening, and the pots of carrots are ready to eat as well. I have a couple of pepper plants that finally have baby peppers - just hope they ripen before they get killed off! But its mainly herbs left in the garden at this stage.
And my seed catalogue arrived in the post tonight!! Sitting beside a warm fire, and about to crack that open to dream about next summer!!
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