We have been harvesting lots and lots of soft fruit – these have gone into fruity pies & crumbles. Last week, I also made redcurrant jam with over 5 and a half pounds of red currants, and for the first time, blackcurrant jam. Used various sugars to hand (light muscovado, demerara, caster…). Still have lots of jam from last year. Am intending to make redcurrant jelly this year.
Peas have all been picked. Broad beans are all ready. We’ve even had to give broad beans away (no room in freezer).
Runner & french beans now in flower. Onions are bulking up nicely (only a couple threw up flower stems which we’ve picked off).
Teasel down the plot is huge, didn’t realise they’d grow that big and magnificent. Hope the birdies will like it.
Strawberries almost all finished. The raspberries on our second plot were planted by previous tenant and are coming to an end – they don’t taste as nice as our ones. We might cull these and plant fresh elsewhere on the plot. The raspberries there are also hiding a gooseberry the previous tenant planted – the fruit are about the size of black currants.
Recent sowings of carrots are germinated. More peas have been sowed. Pak Choi too, I think. Will sow some more beetroot too.
Planted out some more brassicas and leeks.
Shetland Black potatoes are yummy.
I can’t think of anything else at present.
