Taking stock of the garden today, after the storm. Nothing damaged, and Phyllis Bide is flowering well in her second flush.
And I had a go at the vegetable garden, harvesting what I could find, which proved to be more than expected;
Marina di Chioggia pumpkins, scallopini (somewhat overgrown) purple potatoes, a red cabbage, sweetcorn, beetroot, zucchini (both round and long), rhubarb and tomatoes Russian Red and Roma. Plus lemon verbena for pot pourri, tarragon for tarragon vinegar, parsley, oregano and fennel seeds.
Still a lot of tomatoes and the late potatoes to harvest, and cranberries to pick and dry for muesli and cakes. It still amazes me how much variety you can get from a little patch of soil. Magic!
A bumper harvest. And doesn't it all taste and smell soooo much better than anything you can buy (particularly in a supermarket)?
ReplyDeleteThe supermarket produce looks too perfect. They look like plastic veg. and taste that way too.
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