A lovely harvest

Had a quick pick in the patch today after work and just had to take a photo to show off, love the bounty of late summer.



Still having things on the bbq in baking paper, so easy.
This is beans and corn wrapped in baking paper with butter and salt/pepper added, all the juices and stuff stay inside if you are a clever parcel wrapper.
The trick is to seal the long edges by folding them about 4 times, then twisting the ends in the same direction as the folding.

A quiet Sunday

A soft day, not much sun which is pleasant, you don't have to cower in the shade for once. The garden is growing and maturing well, specially after the nice day or two of rain we've just had.

We're trying hard to keep up with alll the eating. Specially the zucchinis, we have only one plant but it delivers 4-5 a day!
Tomatoes are starting to go red and we've been enjoying the big fat beefsteak ones on toast and all. There's a great simple recipe with slices of big tomato layered with buffalo mozzarella and good olive oil and fresh grated pepper and some maldon sea salt. Couple of basil leaves on top.
Yum.
Shot of two of my tomato plants, the espaliered one is now 10 ft tall, the trellis is the same height as me, 5'8". I'll need the ladder to pick the blighters!
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We've had to give the supertom some copper spray and I've had to remove some of the lower leaves, they were starting to yellow. There's a very good tomato problem solving website here

The smaller self seeded mini fruiting tomato has started splitting the fruit as they near maturity, I remember this happening after rain in previous years.

This website explains why.

Planted half a dozen small pea plants this afternoon called sugar bon, can be eaten fresh in salads or steamed or stir fried.

The cicadas are making an amazing amount of noise, they are all panicking as the end of their mating season is approaching with autumn.

February! Eeeek!

Well, it's warm and sunny, that's why we live here.
I had to rip out the early 'susso' tomato plant as it was not thriving anymore. The leaves were beginning to curl and the flowers weren't setting properly. The good news is that the beefsteak one is now starting to colour up.
Radishes are up and I planted another half a row. The zucchini plant is now exploding flowers and fruit in five different places! I'm picking them young and small for maximum niceness, and to keep up, I don't think there's much you can do to keep them for long.


Been having simple bbqs with lots of chopped vege bits on baking paper with oil and salt and pepper. Did some corn tonight peeled and snapped into pieces then rolled tightly in baking paper with butter and a hint of salt inside, nice.

Pulled up the rest of the garlic as it was flopping all over the place, some of them were really nice and proper, after letting them lie around for a day or two in the sun to dry out I googled to find out how to plait them. Easier than it looks I must admit!
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But after a false start I managed to tame them and they look quite good. I think we really need about twice as much to last a year though.



The Tabasco chillies are starting to look cute, small green fingers pointing up, they should taste nice and smoky.

A 2 minute minute movie of still photos: