Ha-ha-harvest

You’re welcome.
I had a big harvest today – picking, or digging up a bit of everything except the little aubergines that are still developing. The sweetcorn is being eaten tonight and those tomatoes (which amuse me by looking so like those novelty ketchup bottles) and cucumber will be headed for sandwiches with a slice of [...]

Cucumber cake

The cucumbers in my patch are growing faster than I can eat them, so when I saw a recipe for courgette cake in The Week, I thought I’d give it a go with cucumber instead. Thus Nigel Slater’s courgette cake became my cucumber cake. The result is very tasty – light, but still full of [...]

Recent pickings and pullings

That’s 98g tomatoes, a 10g runner bean, 363g kinky cucumber and 74g beetroot. Gradually more tomatoes are turning red, but they seem to revel in not quite doing so in unison, so you can’t just pick off a vine of them to parade about, they’ll be coming one or two at a time. The cucumbers [...]

When you oversleep…

We were on a teambuilding exercise and Barack Obama was there. We hung out and he gave me a birthday card.
People wanted to know if those two people walking down the street were Ella and Louise. I followed them to find out. They weren’t.
There was something frustrating with chairs in the toilet.
And there was something [...]

I say tomahto

The first tomato has been harvested. I had it with my tea and it was good.

Nibbled then nobbled

I’ve seen a few bites takes out of beetroots here and there and one of them has some pretty stripped leaves, but there was nothing catastrophic. To be on the safe side though, I went out late on Saturday night to see if there were any slugs about. There were a bunch of little black [...]

Ripening

I took this photo on Friday and already that tomato is much redder, almost pickably ripe. Though most of the other tomatoes are now light rather than dark green, no others have quite turned the corner to orange yet. It shouldn’t be long though! The vines have all fallen over and any attempt to lift [...]