Even though we're not doing the Vegetable Challenge this year, I'm keeping vegetables off the shopping list for the time being (exception: onions) and eating from the garden and allotment instead. Well, there's not much to harvest at the allotment now, though we're still getting a handful of raspberries every other day. The husband dug up one volunteer potato plant last week--a meal's worth--and we might carry on digging them up one at a time as we seem to have a lot of these volunteers, saving the ones we planted in spring for the main harvest in autumn.
At home we're picking snap peas--though they've almost finished--and kale, mizuna and chard. The runner beans are flowering profusely--hoping for beans very soon. The zuccini and other brassicas are still growing; though both the red and green cabbages are starting to form heads they're probably not ready for at least another month though. There's a few small tomatoes forming, but again, not going to harvest any time soon.
We've finished picking all our cherries and strawberries now, pretty much all the red raspberries, and most of the red and black currants. The sour Morello cherries went in the freezer, as did most of the strawbs and rasps, but we ate the sweet Stella and Kordia cherries and currants (both in hand and in smoothies). The yellow rasps are just fruiting, and I'm looking forward to some figs very soon.
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