Harvest Time

Growing and eating your own food is so great - you get a real sense of achievement and you know what it has, or more importantly hasn't, been sprayed or treated with.
The last few weeks we have been enjoying peas (so sweet that it seems a waste to cook them so have been eating raw in salads), tomatoes, lettuces and cucumbers! The runner beans and french beans are coming along (planted these slightly later this year so that we didn't miss the crop when we went on holiday) and the greenhouse is nurturing aubergines and chillies. In addition we have grown lots of flat leafed parsley which we use loads of in our cooking and this has been a fantastic cropper. In some cases growing your own isn't that much cheaper than buying veg, given the soil and feeds that you buy, but the parsley has earnt it's place over and over. Still got carrots, broccoli and parsnips to enjoy..... Christmas Day when you go out and pick and cook your own parsnips is so great.