Fresh Pickings!
Some of the food we’ve got growing in the garden was ready for picking last week, so naturally I took a photo (it’s not great, the camera on my phone isn’t very good!). We got a full box of green beans and some lovely little cherry tomatoes which are so sweet and great to eat on their own or with dinner. The tomatoes are coming slowly, but there are loads still on the plant to change colour yet. We’ve also gone through several lettuces too.
Despite repotting the chilli plants, they’ve not been very happy outside, so I brought a couple in to our conservatory (came with the new house!) and they’ve perked up in there, so I’ve started to bring them all in. A couple of the taller plants have got flowers on them now so I’m hoping to maybe get a few chillis off each one if I’m lucky. It’s quite warm in the conservatory but doesn’t get too much direct sunlight so they seem quite happy in there.
That just leaves the gherkin plant, which has about one gherkin on. I’m not sure when to pick that however, so I’ll need to check on that and not leave it too long!
- August 15th '09
Those tomatoes look superb! I have quite a few green ones in the garden at the moment, mind you if they don’t ripen I can always make chutney
Thanks Marge! They’re gorgeous little cherry tomatoes. Mine are very slow in turning though, just getting a handful each week. I’ll leave them for now as there’s still a couple of dozen or so on the plant but I may just pick them and buy some bananas to hopefully turn them red on the windowsill!