The garden and the polytunnel have been very productive.
Cabbages, spinach, carrots (no carrot fly!), parsnips, cucumbers, beans, tomatoes, courgettes, asparagus, cauliflower, beetroot, parsnips, onions, potatoes, kale, leeks, redcurrents, white currents, gooseberries, blackcurrents, raspberries, strawberries, peas, broad beans, many different herbs and lots of different salad greens and lettuces. Somethings have been processed and frozen. Cabbage doesn't freeze too well so I decided to try making sour kraut, I remember that my granny always had a barrel in her basement. It is so deliscious, it tastes nothing like the stuff in tins or jars. It's sweet and fresh.
I was collecting rowan berries for the seed for next years woodland and thought how about cooking some with apples? It turned out lovely so I think I'll make some more. Sloes and brambles are also plentiful this year so I have been making sloe gin and I just eat the brambles as they are too good to preserve and too easy to eat.
Cucumbers are very prolific in the polytunnel which I am now starting to clear of the summers growth. You can only eat so many and give so many away, so pickling it was.
Potatoes have been very good this year. But, since it is so very wet now, I can't lift and store them so am leaving them in the ground for the time being. I only lift what I need. Onions were just beautiful and so many. I have given a lot away, but I have so many left, they should see me through the winter.
I was collecting rowan berries for the seed for next years woodland and thought how about cooking some with apples? It turned out lovely so I think I'll make some more. Sloes and brambles are also plentiful this year so I have been making sloe gin and I just eat the brambles as they are too good to preserve and too easy to eat.
Cucumbers are very prolific in the polytunnel which I am now starting to clear of the summers growth. You can only eat so many and give so many away, so pickling it was.
Potatoes have been very good this year. But, since it is so very wet now, I can't lift and store them so am leaving them in the ground for the time being. I only lift what I need. Onions were just beautiful and so many. I have given a lot away, but I have so many left, they should see me through the winter.