Entries from August 2009 ↓

Well, the last day of August is here, shame, it has been such a good month for veg.

Below is the spinach which has not got overgrown this year. I have been taking the leaves as often as possible for salad, cooking or freezing so the plants look good.

There was a lot of beetroot this year. I have been bottling it as fast as I can, but it just seems to keep on coming and coming. I made chutney with some of it this time and that has gone down well at home.

This is how big the courgettes can get if you leave them for just a few days. The large one was the size of the smaller one four days ago from this picture! I can’t believe it either, but it’s true.

Happy days.

I have to admit that I didn’t go to Egypt to get these beans. I took a few from a botanical garden which shall remain nameless as I loved the colour. And got told off for it, but they didn’t take the beans back.

Anyway, I dried them out last year and hey presto, they have grown this year. They were not as quick to shoot as the traditional ones, but they have begun to do the job now. I will be having some in the week to try them out. 🙂

Here are a selection of my pumpkins. I know they are not orange this year, but I do have a track record of growing green ones as well.

One of these was a seed planted from a pumpkin I bought in a supermarket! Well you have to try don’t you. 🙂

Here are some of my squash. They look rather good in their yellow jackets. I’m looking forward to soup, pasta and all sorts of food with them.

Here is a quick, and rather shaky, look round my plot (I must get a real video recorder).

You can see the beetroot first and then my beans. I have two varieties, the usual UK one and the dark ones which are from Egypt.

After that you see my courgette – doing very well. I let one get rather big, but I find that if you do it really does provide a good base for soup. It produces enough for saving and having during the week.

After that you see the squash and pumpkin – all doing well. I have trimmed off the trailers today to focus them on the fruit they have already started. No point if having hundreds when I cant eat that many.

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I’m not sure if this is friend or foe. It doesn’t look native to these shores, so it could well be an invader. Still, they do eat ahipds and the like, even if they eat ladybirds as well! Greedy cannibal things.

Here are a selection of the things growing on my plot. As you can see they are coming on well and should be edible soon.

Here are the courgette and squash/pumpkin. They are doing well this year so I am pleased. Should be lots of squash and pumpkin later in the year.