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Monday, September 21, 2009
It has been a busy year, the garden has been stretched to its limits. Lots of lovely crops grown for Gardeners' World Magazine and all the veg and herb plants that I'm offering with my new 'Grow Your Own' package. The result is a freezer that is full to bursting....with most things. Certainly a bumper year for damsons, plums, apples and pears and the raspberries have been pretty good too. But there is no doubt that the potato harvest was not as good as usual - simply too dry in the main area that I grew them in this year, and then a bit of blight too.
But now, here I sit, in the sun, enjoying some unusually warm September sun. Its great to feel it on my back, but also good to know that it'll be giving a welcome kick start to some of the later sowings of carrots and hopefully doing what is necessary for the last of the mange tout peas whilst also prompting yet another delicious meal from the courgettes. There is another crop, my find of the year, 'Ironman 'broccoli, that is benefiting from the warm, moister weather. It is simply by far the best broccoli I have ever grown, massive, compact and very tasty heads all well over 600g each, and then a really long series of smaller but still very presentable side shoots.. I have included it in my new 'Grow Your Own with Pippa Greenwood' line up and would recommend it to anyone, especially if they have struggled with disappointing crops of broccoli before............aaah, I can feel a tasty supper in the making!
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