Showing posts with label cucumber. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cucumber. Show all posts

Wednesday, 29 July 2009

FOOD


Well the weather continues to be all too much like a typical English summer, and looking at the Met. Office web site, it isn't likely to improve over the next two weeks. That is a bit depressing as next week, we are going for a short break in Cumbria, still Jay the autistic Spaniel won't complain.

At least we are starting to crop some decent vegetables, the picture shows a few standard courgettes (Zucchini if you live on the wrong side of the Atlantic), a small "Burpless" cucumber and the yellow thing is a new variety of courgette of the type known as "One Ball" Is it possible that this was Hitler's favourite vegetable?

A few days ago we dug up some potatoes, one of the many "Pentland" varieties, from 4 seed potatoes we cropped 15.5 Lbs (approx 7 Kg) and our Broad beans have so far produced about 3 lbs (shelled weight) so at least we can eat for a week.