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| Kale and broccoli for dinner, July 2020 |
While I'm not officially doing the Vegetable Challenge this year, I'm still trying to serve garden veg daily for dinner. However, this has meant a lot of chard and kale recently. Not that I'm complaining: we like them both! But I'm kind of missing those roots, zuccinis, beans and other calorie dense vegetables.
The only roots we have are potatoes and a few onions--we're having potatoes once a week but the onions won't be ready till autumn I think. I didn't bother sowing any root veg seeds at home, but I think I should have--normally I don't get much success from direct seeding because of slugs and bugs, but it appears that the slug population is much reduced this year: possibly because the ducks had several weeks on the veg patch over winter. I'll know for next spring--too late now.
As for zuccinis, yes I have a couple plants, and no they aren't doing much. As usual. I don't understand how everyone seems to drown in zuccini when I can barely keep my plants alive. I doubt we'll be getting any of our own--hopefully people at the allotments are having better success, and will give me some of theirs.
Beans: the first batch of plants at the allotment are all gone except one single vine, which is very small and sad. The second batch, in a different place, is now starting to flower. The beans at home have been flowering longer and have set a few beans, but none are big enough to eat yet. I don't know why these ones are so late--I got them planted out mid-May and it's August now. Hopefully hopefully hopefully we'll start eating them by the end of the week. Hopefully.
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| Runner beans at home, July 2020 |
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