After a bike ride this morning...then a modicum of shopping and looking for things in a couple of hardware shops to compare...and washing and weeding...the garden said..here is supper!
With some steamed tatties and Wensleydale cheese...
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...take care and be well.
Sounds tasty!
It’s the best feeling eating something you grew yourself.
Its usually so much nicer and healthier
Emma started off some peas and I planted and watered them for her. They're in the bottom triangle though and have been forgotten with recent events, so now they've gone tough and will be seed for next year . . . I have yet to have one runner bean to be picked!
Another busy and, hopefully, productive day.
Perfect meal. Yum!
BB perfect..seeds ready for next season..free!!
I wish we could get Wensleydale cheese.
Well done - nothing like homegrown veg and I’m sure you eat the stalks and leaves of the beetroot too. My veg garden in the South Downs is in overdrive producing both yellow and green stripey courgettes, Swift sweetcorn, outdoor gardener’s delight tomatoes (so much tastier than greenhouse toms), lots of basil and purple French beans as well as spinach, rainbow chard and autumn raspberries. Have dug up a few plants of huge Charlotte potatoes, the garlic is hanging up, chilli peppers are coming on and the Turks Turban squash are forming. So happy and relieved as at one low point this season (after 25 years of serious veg growing) I thought I might give up and become a flower grower. The moral: never give up! I haven’t watered the veg plot once this year either as the rain has been so abundant and my sandy soil is in really good heart after six years of composting. I produce around three tons of finished compost every year which mostly goes on the 5 x 5 metre veg plot and in the 5 x 4 m fruit cage. No artificial feeding required, except for homemade comfrey tea which I give to my roses, sweet peas (best year ever for roses and sweet peas), pots of strawberries and the cattle trough of cosmos and Gaura for cutting. I have started producing wedding flowers including dahlias, umbels of wild carrot, cephalaria gigantea, Panicum and hedgerow gleanings for the five churches that make up our benefice. Conscientious brides are now asking for locally and organically grown flowers and turning away from cheap imported flowers that have been dipped in silver nitrate to prolong their life. My flowers will only be at their best for a few days even with cutting into water and careful conditioning but that is long enough and it is keeping me busy, content and grounded in my plot which is a good feeling. Husband has Parkinson’s so we cannot wander far but he had a great off-road cycle ride yesterday as he still has a fantastic muscle memory for cycling - an activity he loves and we’ll be cycling to the next village this afternoon to see their summer produce show (ours is next Saturday) and enjoy a cup of tea and piece of cake. Have a lovely day gz - two book group friends have been widowed in the last year and like you they are developing new leases of life. One is a potter and has given her wheel and kiln to the local primary school and goes in one morning a week to do potting with small groups of children which is proving unbelievably worthwhile and beneficial for everyone. Sarah in Sussex
Hi Sarah.. sometimes I see the gardens of friends and relations in Kent and wish I could grow there ...but I like it up here!
Yes, cycling is good for Parkinson's. I remember seeing a programme years ago on the research by some USA students, where someone who didn't cycle was taken out on the back of a tandem for 29 minutes... and after that he could draw a solid straight line... something he wasn't able to do beforehand.
I am looking forward to carrying on riding my bike, and getting back to potting and print making properly
I wonder if there is a similar Irish cheese?
Lovely!
Yay for gardens. You sound a lot brighter today. The bike ride did your spirits well!
Home grown fresh veggies are the best. Add cheese and bread and a meal is complete. Nicely done.
Sounds good to me, cant say I've tried that type of cheese though.
I think the nearest I've found in NZ, Aimz is a good white sheep's milk cheese
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