Is that a carrot in your pocket or…..
With the welcome return of some warm weather it has been a bit of a gardening chore-day today, removing all the produce from the garden that was either on its last legs, or had grown well enough but had been neglected. Unfortunately, the carrots had been one of those veges that had grown well but had just been left to, well, do it’s own stuff. Until today we’d really not noticed just how well it was doing it’s stuff!
This whoppa weighed in at 800g – so I guess we can grow carrots. We’ll just have to remember in future to eat carrots! I’m not sure the photo really does the sheer mass of this brute justice. Let’s just say you could make a LOT of coleslaw with it!
And this little beauty somehow turned into some kind of Dr Seuss carrot ‘submarine’ or something. Made us chuckle, anyway. But starting an odd shaped vege theme is always a bit dangerous. Just ask Baldric.
In other gardening news I picked my first decent sized home grown aubergine so we can use it for tea tonight. We have picked small aubergines already that have not taken off and put them in Thai green curries, but they don’t really count as real ones (more like stunted growth ones), but they were nice enough too.
We also harvested all the borlotti fire beans that were taking up half a square bed as they slowly dried up and went crispy…
That’s right, half a small mustard jar worth of dried beans was all we managed today. Not the best use of space to date. But at least there’s enough to try again with next season, and maybe then give them a bit more care and attention and hopefully get a better crop. I guess with a decent sales pitch we could try to trade them for one of the local cows…
And then there was another 2.5kg of tomatoes harvested again today for some different tomato sauce, along with the required thyme and chillies…
I hope the hand model is being paid well!