I love a day in the
garden! Last Wednesday, it was overcast,
with a chilly breeze and some drizzle so was the perfect day to clean up the
summer tomatoes and prep for winter crops J.
The harvest:
Japnut self sown
pumpkins (these are so super sweet); basil that broke off, hot Paprika
capsicum/mild chilli; one cucumber (pulled that vine out); dried out
red-flowering broad beans to save the seed; the very last of the tomatoes and
rhubarb. I picked the rhubarb mostly for
the leaves so I had some green to compost:
That green layer
had a bit of everything I could grab – what is abundant in the garden right now
– so that would be self-sown dill, clover, dandelion and rhubarb leaves! And some sort of amaranth weed looking thing…
I was in a bit of a
lazy mood yesterday, so it is lasagne compost, but it will change to bolognaise
when I turn it in a few weeks, eh?
Oh, and I cooked up
the rhubarb with apples and some unhappy plums – they added such a lovely pink
colour to the fruit – hmmm, should have thought of that when I was making jam
last time! I call soft, semi-bruised
fruit unhappy – because my go-to recipe for them is to make “Happy Fruit
Crumble” – just take all your unhappy fruit and quickly stew it up, top with your
crumble mix and bake for some very deliciousness J. My crumble
mix is a very simple brown sugar, butter and oats – with a little bit of muesli
if there is some.
And finally, Mum and I were looking at the lavenders and saw there were plenty of
flower heads on the Sugarberry Ruffle blossom – so we picked those and the
perfume was divine!
And, I just looked
up Stickleberry lavender on the internet (because that is the name I always
think they are called – wrong me…) and the most gorgeous recipes for frozen
yoghurt and a buttermilk
sponge cake came up! I am
inspired!! (NB - culinary
lavender is probably different to my Stickleberry so I will be searching
out some to grow too).
