2420g vegetables in 2 hours

11 October 2009

There was some work to do in the garden today. The tomatoes keep on ripening and needed picking. Some had turned a bit manky instead of turning red though, so they went into the compost. As did the remaining sweetcorn plants, whose last cobs had already been eaten with dinner a few nights before. Gradually I’m beginning to see the soil again.

A few cucumbers have been picked too, these perhaps not quite so perfect-looking as the ones that went before them. They’ll be going into another cucumber cake. The (probably) final beetroot have been pulled too. I don’t think the second row is going to produce anything worth cooking, but I’ll see what happens to the runt from the first row before I banish them all to the bin.

Another handful of runner beans were ready for picking – a couple of them of hilarious length. When the vines finally give up producing beans I’m wondering how on earth all that foliage is going to fit into my compost bin. There’s no way it’s going in to the council bin though. No, I grew it, I rot it!

After a lot of rain recently today was perfect for pulling a few carrots. Just a little loosening of the surrounding soil and then up they came like loose teeth. Except that they were a hell of a lot bigger than milk teeth. There are some monster carrots out there and it looks like the second row will produce some good stuff too.