Fruit Harvest

Cooked gooseberries straight into pan with a couple of table spoons of sugar, mix until sugar turns to syrup and boil for about 15 mins until consistency is how you want it?

Cooked gooseberries ideal to have with yogurt or pancakes.  

 

Sugared raspberries ideal with cereal or granola.

Raspberries picked from allotment

Gooseberries harvested from allotment. 

This years strawberries have been very good picked a number of large cylinders of big strawberries. Froze a lot individually on trays and bagged up. I will be freezing quite a lot of the gooseberries. The rest I will cook and sweeten and have with natural yogurt. 

Growing outside my home

Growing plants outside your home in pots can help reduce your weekly shopping costs. Growing from seed can be a cheap way of growing veg. I tend to mix it a bit , buying some some plants for growing and some from seed, creates a better balance. This year I bought a mix of tomatoe seeds and now have a small forest of different types of tomatoe plants that are just beginning to flower. I’m very excited to see what type of tomatoe will be grown.

Various tomatoe plants outside my home.

Big potatoe fabric pots ideal for growing veg and very reasonably priced.

Lettuce leads, tomatoe plant and sun flower.

Starting grow bigger and flowering well.

Sunflowers starting to grow.

Tomatoes starting to flower.

Great veg bags made from fabric with window for growing potatoe or carrots.

Peas for adding to stir fry

Runner beans and french beans

Various tomatoe plants

Runner beans and purple french beans.