It's been a busy evening, I've made tomato and chilli sauce, cooked up a big pan of runner beans, blanched and frozen a big batch of beans and made two jars of gherkin pickles! Phew.
So it's a v quick round up from me, a good week again
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| Sorry, squished photo! Tuesday on the allot including most of my hazel nuts, a first for me this year. They came away lightly without needing to pull too much. |
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| Mid week from the back garden, nice beans |
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| Saturday from the garden, more beans n toms |
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| Saturday from the plot, last of the plums and hazels. Can you spot the 3-eyed alien? |
Today I've picked more from the plot but didn't get a photo, 3 courgettes, some chard, big bag of potatoes (still lots more to dig, realised the other day I hadn't been taking pics of them), a gherkin and cuke (possibly the last), a few rasps. Also another load of beans from the back garden. As we now have our new freezer (yes!) I took the opportunity to sort some beans to freeze as mentioned above.
I also intended to start sorting my potatoes into keepers and user-uppers but didn't get time so that will have to wait. They're in bags in a big cardboard box in a dark spot in the house, they'll go in the shed eventually.
Night night!
Linking to Harvest Monday at Daphne's Dandelions.
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That sure looks like a wonderful harvest! The tomatoes are such a beautiful red! And hazelnuts? Fabulous!
ReplyDeleteThanks Susie, hopefully a few more toms to come. yay, the nuts are quite exciting :)
DeleteI just love nuts & would love to have a nut tree - but they are usually so large & take so long to bear that I doubt I will ever get one. You are indeed lucky!
ReplyDeleteThanks Margaret, I think I planted it about 5 or 6 years ago. I actually planted 3 but needed to move 2, and one of those died. The one that survived is quite small as I pruned it right down but then it got shaded out by a privet from the next door garden. Anyway, so I have one big tree and a little one. The big one is maybe 2 metres high and 1.5m wide at its widest? I didn't expect to get any nuts, I was mainly planting for pea sticks! I think I can fit in some other shrubby things underneath too, to make the most of the space.
DeleteLovely harvests. And whoohoo for a first. I've never tried growing nuts. I researched them a bit when we moved here, but decided against them. If I had though hazelnuts seems like the most promising as they pretty small. Though if I could have grown almonds here (real ones not crosses with peaches) I would have planted one of those.
ReplyDeleteYay, thanks Daphne. Yeh I think with the right tree or shrub it's possible. I have mine down the far end of my plot. There's still quite a bit of room down there, when I clear it a bit more. It's over shadowed with a big privet from next door and a big buddliea on my plot (which I've thinned last winter to try and get some straight sticks from re-growth). I reckon I could squeeze another hazel in and maybe plant some other stuff underneath, or try and encourage the comfrey to spread. I'll try sowing a few hazel nuts this winter I think and see what happens!
DeleteIt's the first time we have harvested cobnuts and I'm looking forward to trying them
ReplyDeleteI haven't tried mine yet, think I'll leave them a couple more days. Turning a nice brown colour though (the nuts, not me). I wonder if there's much difference between cob or hazels or are they pretty much the same thing.
DeletePicked some more today. Not sure whether cob and hazel are the same thing or different.
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