harvest time

Time to show off the fruits of our labours and the bountiful produce of eleven pole!




We had a grand jam making session after brief forays out in between showers. These boxes of fruit are now five jars each of raspberry and goosecurrant and two each of blackcurrant and redcurrant. Sticky. The carrots became spicy soup and the next lot we pulled turned into this rather delicious cake which was ravenously devoured.



These are our spectacularly plump and nubile courgettes which Large couldnt keep his hands off, they were made into fritters then dished up with stuffed courgette and pumpkin flowers.




You make the fritters by adding garlic, about a handful of parmesan, a bit of flour, egg and seasoning to grated courgette. Just dont leave them too long before cooking or all the water comes out and makes a big gooey mess.

beauty and the beast

The water butts are full to overflowing, as are the buckets in the shed...but it doesnt seem to have set anything back too much and there are lots of courgettes starting to form, the tatties are all flowering, strawberries fruiting, tomatoes appearing and beans still being decimated by some unknown pest.

The cabbage are looking good.



We've got these fantastic poppies although they only really flower for a couple of days.




Don't think we'd win top prize for all our carrots but they still taste just as good.




Beetroot is coming on, this is it just before planting out a couple of weeks ago.




We've just planted out our outdoor tomatoes only for it to pelt down with rain a couple of hours later so now we're hoping for some sunshine to warm them up again and bring them on.