Cordial

With this year’s blackcurrant crop, we decided to try making a cordial.

Glut Busting

Another trugful of tomatoes from the greenhouse, too many to enjoy raw, have been processed for the freezer.

Savour

We are currently enjoying one of my favourite crops of summer.

Riches

We woke to gentle rainfall this morning, the long hot weeks of sunshine finally faltering to give way to a greyer day, the morning laced with light rain: a temporary reprieve by all accounts and therefore all the more welcome.

Mystique

Slowly we are making our way through the last standing leeks and winter brassicas, clearing the ground ready for this year’s planting.

Adieu To August

After several rather disappointing damp summers, and a long cold winter, we have at last enjoyed a fine summer here, with surprising heat still in the sun now as the season begins to wane.

Burpees Golden

This year we branched out with our beetroot growing, to include the yellow ‘Burpees Golden’ and pink-ringed ‘Chioggia’ alongside our usual purple varieties.

Stereo

I have already mentioned how impressed we have been with the Broad Bean variety ‘Stereo’ this year.

Blaze

Summer has finally arrived, with a welcome run of long, hot sunny days which continue to stretch ahead of us.

The Great Scape

Despite the rather wintry weather of late, our hardneck garlic has remained on schedule, pushing up long curly scapes which I harvested eagerly in a spell of evening sunshine.