……..was a small courgette from the greenhouse. I might have let it develop however reducing it can encourage others.
Later there will likely be loads for all of the courgette recipes however this time it was grated and added to some half cooked and mashed frozen peas, plus flour and an egg to make fritters – very inexperienced and vibrant meals once more! I served them up with bacon and my handmade tomato relish.
Additionally within the greenhouse the tomatoes are setting and there are cucumbers on the vegetation that will likely be prepared in just a few weeks – they develop like loopy as soon as they get going. I have to verify that recipe for the Candy and Bitter cucumber pickle so I am prepared for the glut.
This week I discovered just a few raspberries off the canes that have been right here after I got here. I reduce them again every year they usually appear to fruit at random occasions, producing a handful once in a while from now till September. The row of summer time fruiting canes that I planted are buzzing with bees on a regular basis and looking out eager for a superb crop in July. My first three strawberries have been prepared from the small vegetation my sister gave me, I added to some picked from BiL’s strawberry mattress – his are actually getting going now.
The basil cuttings lastly had sufficient roots for me to pot them up – 4 vegetation from my 79p pot purchased from Aldi within the first week of Might.
Subsequent door neighbour’s cat continues to be inflicting me issues, there’s one space of the three veg. beds unplanted. Does she use that bit? No – she pushes her approach below, in and round all of the fences, covers and boundaries and digs up the leek vegetation as a substitute!….once more. I assumed even a mouse would not be capable of get in however she managed to discover a weak spot. I’ve used much more steel pegs to carry the netting down now – hopeful that the remaining leeks will likely be prepared within the autumn.
Thanks for all of the feedback about Foxgloves yesterday – appears they’re popping up in gardens all over the place and bees love them. Should be the one good factor to come back from all of the rain we’ve had.
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Sue
