I am so busy out gathering and processing the bounty from my kitchen garden right now, that I hardly have the time to write the blog. The garlic is up and drying and I have burgeoning onions, salads, peas and mangetout, radishes so plentiful they are going woody before I can eat them and summer cabbage, beautiful leafy and purple, hearting up nicely.
Soon there will be more space in the raised beds as I take up the broad beans etc, so I am planning the next planting, and some of the young brassicas I have been raising in my greenhouse will go in this weekend.
I do really love courgettes, including eating the flowers stuffed with a cheesy mixture and deep fried in batter. So I decided this year to grow several varieties. I must have forgotten just how prolific courgettes are!!! By now, I am picking young specimens which are popping up all over the place! Here’s a photo of my first sizeable harvest showing the variety. The round one is an Italian variety from Franchi seeds which are well worth a look for unusual varieties and big colourful packets of seeds, which are plentiful and reliable. The yellow courgette has a subtly different, meatier texture and taste, whilst the green one is a bush variety which produces smaller fruits - I have some of them growing in pots.
Ratatouille tonight I think…
