Courgettes Raspberries Coriander Too

Monday, 17 August 2020

August 13th

Potato Harvest what a delight

Look at the size of this courgette, and just look at the squash tromboncino, potatoes and one sweet corn

August 9th

Squash tromboncino.

Bergamot

Squash tromboncino.

The can grow up to one metre

What next...

The beetroot did well, although I had only put a few seeds in this year. All the beet is now out and I have made sweet and chilli chutney, have roasted the beet with goats' cheese, all so tasty.

The bed is now being used to plant more beetroot that I had germinated the conservatory.

Small beetroot shoots, I hope they take to the ground.

Tomtaoes

Broccoli

Beans. Well, they have taken a long time to get to this stage. These are and supposed to be a yard long. At the moment nothing, and no flowers yet either. I may or may not be successful.

Lot more blackberries being picked...

and more courgettes....

Courgette and potato fritters are easy to make.

Courgette and potato fritters are so quick to make and don’t require any planning or prep work in advance.

2 small courgettes

1 small onion chopped

1-2 medium sized boiled potatoes

¼ cup of all-purpose flour or garam flour

1 teaspoon salt,

1 teaspoon garam masala

I green chilli finely chopped – optional

Small handful of fresh coriander leaves

¼ cup vegetable oil

Method

Grate the courgette

In a large bowl, roughly mash the potato

Add all other ingredients and combine them well

Heat 1 – 2 Tablespoons of oil in a non-stick frying pan over medium heat.

Take a small amount of mixture in the palm of your hand and flatten to small fritter size.

Cook for about 3-4 minutes on both side until golden brown

Sunday, 16 August 2020

August 2nd

Doing well on courgettes. There is a lot that can be done with courgettes. Well, you can give them away to the neighbours, sauté them, fritter them, make a yummy courgette and cheese flan, freeze them or make the most amazing vegan courgette and chocolate cake.

I have done all the above and still have courgettes left !

In my version I added crystallised ginger and honey-roasted almonds.

Bergamot

At the bottom of our LG lots of blackberries are beginning to ripen. This is the first year we have seen them.

Then around the edge of the LG there are so many blackberries. The hot weather has really got them in abundance this year. So we have been picking.

And we have gladiolus, beautiful flowers that give us so much pleasure every year.

This is what we took home today. - the latest haul.

Thursday, 30 July 2020

July: Weed power versus people power !

An interesting gourd... Wait util it grows to its full size. Its is called squash tromboncino.

Winter squash or is it summer squash ? I should know, as I planted it but I cannot remember

Ah, and courgettes...

This looks strange. Yes you may have guessed that under the net we have sweet corn

Each year I grow sweet corn. As soon as the cobs begin to grow some predator gets at it, even peels the husk and gets to the corn. So this year I decided to put a net over these tall plants. I wonder if the corona the cob will survive ?

We have more courgettes and few yellow raspberries and blackberries

What beautifully scents, plant and gorgeous flowers. This is bergamot...

Not sure what use I can put this to, apart just enjoying its fragrance and the lovely shaped flowers

Here we have artichokes now in full bloom, great for bees

This was huge strawberry bed, covered in strawberries and then nothing. Before they ripened all the strawberries just disappeared, despite the net I had put over them. Now the strawberry plants are covered in weeds. This is a job waiting to be done. The idea is to dig out all the strawberry plants and use the runners to start a new bed. Then of course weed the whole of this huge bed.