Hey it's been good this week. The weather warmed up and we've had some rain too, to get things growing. It started a bit slow but here's most (but not all) of the harvests, in order through the week, starting on Tuesday....
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| Sleepy clown. The dwarf French beans are on their way out, this was the last of my pickings for the year. |
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| Blackberries are running down. Eyebrows are hazel nut windfalls. |
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| The gherkins have put on another spurt. |
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| My first ever little calabrese harvest (two spears!). The little leaves are vine leaves for the gherkin pickle making. Also the first load of plums. |
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| I've been foraging elderberries to make jelly |
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| Back garden beans and parsley seeds |
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| Hmm not sure what happened with this photo! Second big bowl of plums and a lonely bean. |
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| Back garden harvest, beans and toms. Still lots of beans to come and we have a new fridge freezer arriving later this week so at last I can start preserving more! Our current freezer only has two drawers |
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| Plum chutney being made...now only have to wait a few weeks for it to mature |
| I tried my third lot of pickled (fermented) gherkins...the upper gherkins in the jar had gone all soft, I'm not sure why, I think I made them in the same way. They didn't smell any different either....just hoping the rest of my million jars don't go the same way. |
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But to end on a positive, I made a plum cake (see previous post) that turned out well, yippee! Recipe from Shaheen at Allotment 2 Kitchen.
Linking in with Harvest Monday on Daphne's dandelions
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That is a lotta veg and that cake looks yummy! We are getting another freezer soon too - just waiting for a sale. When my husband asked where we were going to put it, I just shrugged my shoulders and told him I would find a spot somewhere - a bigger veg garden necessitates a larger freezer..everyone knows that ;)
ReplyDeleteOoh, yes, the new freezer is very exciting, over double the capacity! Been meaning to order it for weeks but we didn't get round to it til the weekend...and it was £80 cheaper, so there's sometimes a silver lining to procrastination! Now we just have to work out the logistics of swapping from one freezer to the other :/
ReplyDeleteHehe, hope you manage to find one and squeeze it in.
Lovely harvests. And that cake looks so delicious. I don't think I could live without my freezer We picked one bigger than I thought I'd need, but then I fill it to the brim every year. I wish I'd gotten the next size up.
ReplyDeleteThat's because your harvests are so good Daphne! :)
DeleteWe have nuts on our Kent cob and are trying to decide when we should pick them - before the squirrels.
ReplyDeleteI've picked most of mine now, my first year for them. They came away quite easily, I just left a couple that wouldn't 'give'. We don't seem to get squirrels, though I know they're nearby but we do have jays. Maybe we don't have squirrels.....yet.
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