As the title suggests this weekend we harvested literally an armful of veggies. I loved my mothers reaction when she opened the door and there I was trug in hand and piled up to my chin with veggies. She was so surprised and proud of us, it was amassing.
We also tackled the big task of moving the compost. Now we have the second plot and the lovely compost bins that Bill built we thought it was time to move the contents of the old compost bin down. The top corner of the plot around the compost has always been used as a dumping ground but now we are clearing it out so we can have a nice place to sit and look at our work. Above is a picture of the area before and below is a picture of after.
It looks much better now. We took the metal box down to the other plot for now but will be getting rid of it. One day in the not to distant future we hope to have a nice little area where we can sit after the hard work is done and survey our a veggie kingdom.
Generally its all going quite well. The salad may be bolting, the beans may have bugs, the carrots have been decimated, but there is lots of wonderful thing happening too. We have harvested cauliflower (something Bill hadn't managed to do till this year), we have tons of onions looking big and strong, the apple tree has so many apples we are going to have to take some off. The beetroot are lovely, the beans are plentiful, even the troubled yellow one are swelling nicely.
And then there is the tomatoes, after last year mediocre harvest following the decimation by slug I have a bit of a thing for the tomatoes. It may be the smell of the tomato plants or it may be the fruit in huge numbers swelling beautifully on the trusses, but I love them.
And then there is the runner beans, so many beans, and they taste so good. It feels so good to be growing my own food, to sit at the table and count up how much of it is grown by me. To be able to share my veg with others be it family or friends, it feels so wonderful.
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