Picked this week - 30th March 2014

A trip to the allotment early in the week saw me bringing home spinach and brussels sprouts tops - both of which ended up in salads - and more snippets of broccoli.

There's been lots in the way of salad leaves to pull from the garden and greenhouse - american land cress, rocket and self set lamb's lettuce outside and baby red lettuce inside - and chives,lemon balm and oregano for salad dressings.

Picked this week - 23rd june 2013

 It's been another week of onions.....

..and lettuce...

..and lettuce and onions...

and more onions...















...and more...

...and some herbs for salad dressing to pour over them.

picked this week

the glut of brassicas running to seed continues. we have a lot of loose cabbage leaves, popping brussels sprouts and their leaves to eat at the moment. I'm trying to avoid either throwing everything away or freezing it so trying to find interesting ways to use it all instead of living on a diet of plain boiled cabbage. have added it to minestrone soup, to pasta sauces and stir fry but best idea so far is using it as a replacement for spinach in curry.

also have; - early purple sprouting broccoli starting to come ready - slightly different to the brassicas but not very.

- leeks

- some over-wintered, very woody radishes. some just aren't edible at all.

- lots of salad leaves -various kinds of red and green lettuce, rocket, some spinach.

- oregano, lemon balm and mint shooting up.