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Sunday 18 September 2011

picked this week

lots of usual suspects - runner, french and borlotti beans, beetroot, carrots, lettuce leaves.



discovered some long thin white radish among a sowing of mixed type radishes. I expected it to be very strong in taste but it was rather mild.







still picking lots of cucumbers - both long green and these strange yellow ones. have picked the first pepper - but it seems to be turning purple as it ripens!








rather pleased at this time of year to still be able to pick a plate of salad from the garden/allotment. the tomatoes are tiny gartenperle variety and some have grown in a hanging basket.
the far larger beefsteak tomatoes are ripening well but we're picking lots of all sorts while still green before they're damaged by weather or blight.

2 comments:

  1. sounds to me you're eating very well from the fruits of your work.Very unusual cucumbers,, I was wondering if they were green before turning yellow.We always leave cucumbers in the garden to ripen then make a sweet yellow pickle from them,,with tumerick and spices,,

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  2. The puzzle is - we eat so much home-produced veg, why isn't the grocery bill less? Yes, very strange cucumbers - called Crystal Lemon. They start out a pale lemony-green and ripen to the yellow/orange shade. They're nice and juicy at the moment but easily over-ripen and have too many seeds. The skin is also quite tough so I always peel them.

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