I planted 3 varieties of zucchini, and the first of each is ready today. We'll do a taste test for dinner to see which variety is the winner, if any.
Just one asparagus but I know it'll be stunningly sweet and juicy - it came from the best plant.
Plenty of broadbeans, though we always want more.
But we've plenty of food to eat at the moment - lots of cabbages especially. Just a small one today but I rescued it from the snails. Pulled a few more carrots - we've heaps coming up and are taking it a few at a time.
There's a handful of spinach. Ours is going to seed now but some of it is still soft enough to eat and I'm raiding it as much as possible to make it last.
There's also a handful of shallots. I thought the bulbs were meant to be bigger than that, but these are already starting to seed so I've pulled them. I had to pull a few a week ago too, and already the bulbs are a fair bit fatter than last time. I'm hoping the rest make it through to being nice and fat before going to seed.
I ran out of space in my harvest basket, apron pocket and berry bowl, but there were still raspberries to pick. I did find the perfect vessel though: my mouth! I ate my fill of raspberries. I can't tell you what a luxury it is to have so many I can simply stuff myself without holding back. Wow! Our favourite family ritual at the moment is to take a bowl of homemade icecream out into the food forest after dinner. Then we top it with berries straight from the bushes and sit in the forest to eat. Exquisite. But Paula and Jesse are out tonight and it's just me. There'll be plenty more raspberries in a couple of days though so no need for restraint.
Fabulous! I enjoyed lettuce, peas, broad beans, spring onions and baby beet roots from our garden last night. Spring is amazing! I'm inspired by your berries - we've just planted blueberries ad cranberries so I hope we'll be enjoying berry harvests next year.
Posted by: Eilis | 29 November 2011 at 07:49 AM