16th October 2010

I was finally brave enough to cook some of the beetroot that I grew in my vegetable box over the summer last night and we ate it for lunch today in a salad with some goats cheese.

2nd October 2010

My tomatoes this year have not been a roaring success and the majority have steadfastly refused to turn red. So today I hatched a cunning plan to use up my green tomatoes - I would make some green tomato chutney. I found a recipe on the internet and it started off easy enough but then it took forever to reduce the liquid so that it took on a chutney consistency. It's finished now and jarred up - fingers-crossed it will improve with time as the first taste was rather vinegary!

19th August 2010

A couple of months ago my dad gave me a cucumber plant. For ages it did nothing and then a few days ago this interesting shaped fruit appeared. Now I'm no expert, but to me it seems an awful lot like a squash...

21st July 2010

My crazy courgette plant has finally produced something we can eat! These are the first three courgettes that I've picked and I can see a few more in the early stages of growth. I now need to find some exciting recipes to use them up...

1st July 2010

I'm getting rather concerned about my courgette plant... Having started as a rather spindly specimen when I planted it in my veg box it has now become the bully-boy of the box spreading out over the other plants.  The poor squash plant is literally being squashed under a mass of courgette plant leaves and the carrots and rocket are rapidly disappearing as the courgettes leaves get bigger and bigger.  Yet for all this growth there are a rather disappointing number of flowers appearing to grow into something worthwhile.  I hope things change soon as I haven't come across many recipes for fried courgette leaves...

17th June 2010

Today's photo was going to be this rather cool old-fashioned convertible car with a canvas awning that I saw whilst running at lunchtime, but then I got home and found our first ripe radish whilst watering the garden.  It may seem dull but this is our first harvest from our new vegetable box that Mr W built for me at the end of last year and so to me it was exciting!  We have now eaten said radish and I can confirm that it was good!