What lovely weather we are having at the moment, its hot during the day, but for us anyway, it is nice and breezy and much cooler at night. This I could cope with forever...
Today I was up bright and early, have to be nowadays as its getting too hot to work during the heat of the day so we have to find the hours somewhere. So I get up earlier, the garden was still lovely and damp from last nights watering, so nice and cool for working. I picked, two big bunches of baby carrot thinnings, a colander of peas, another large bowl of french beans, thats the second this week. Plus a large bunch of baby beetroots, five small green peppers and ahandful of courgettes..
Nothing will be wasted, The peas were podded and put in the freezer, the pods were chopped and put in the dog bag towards tonights meal for them, the baby carrots were scrubbed, topped and tailed and put in the freezer, they go into rice dishes etc, the carrot tops I trimmed and put in a bag and into the freezer for bulking out soup during winter, great vitamins. Some french beans were put aside for tonights dinner while the rest was frozen. The peppers and courgettes will be eaten tonight also. And I'll pickle the beets tomorrow...
All in all a good first pickings...
The peas are coming on well now, we should have more than last year, and we have made a large second sowing too so will have some late sept time too...
We are keeping on with the beet sowings to make sure of plenty of those, and cabbage of course, Ive tons of red cabbage coming so lots of recipes needed to make it different.
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