Was getting worried!

Until I read the latest post by Little Green House.
There seems to be an endless cycle of sowing, watering and weeding (always weeding - when I close my eyes I see horsetail) and yet all I’ve eaten so far is some salad and some lovely spinach.

I was begining to dispair that I would never get a decent crop, and when the stuff did get to the point where it was ready to eat, there wouldn be enough. Actually I still worry that the crops will be small - the garlic, which is almost ready seems very small and I am concerned that my courgette plants will provide but one meal.

Anyway - I think this is just my paranoia and I need to be patient. The broad beans are almost ready, the new potatoes must be ready to dig soon and I have high hopes for the greenhouse-shaped block of tomato plants we seem to have.

Makes you wonder how people survived late winter and early spring. Pickling I suppose.

Written by exmonkey on June 22nd, 2006 with 3 comments.
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The First Taste is the Sweetest

We had the very first of our carrots, sugar-snap peas and salad onions as part of a salad with our Summer Solstice barbecue last night. Our lettuces are also ready to tuck into, the strawberries are starting to ripen, and I will be harvesting bucketfuls of red-currants this weekend. Does anybody have a good red-currant sorbet recipe?

Written by The Little Green House on June 22nd, 2006 with 1 comment.
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