Well,
it is still a crop - but not one of my usual ones. This year was the
first time I have grown cauliflowers - which are apparently difficult
to grow. I have been successful, with only 2 problems occurring. The
first being that ONE head got eaten into by some sort of bug and the
other than some of my heads grew too fast, and grew beyond a nice
shape before I harvested them. As you can see, it is sort of
distorted - should have been picked 1-2 days before.
This
was called a 'bag of weeds' by my best friend when she first saw it -
and I suppose that might be what it looks like. However as you can
see in my next shot - it is a bag of crops! Garlic, spinach,
gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries and nasturtiums.
The
above shot shows what became of the garlic. I lined it up to dry on
the kitchen floor on top of tea towels. This was a successful method
of garlic drying and as soon as the stems go brown, I can plait them
together then harvest the second haul. I had rather a lot of
gooseberries and decided to make gooseberry jam with some - so tossed
a heap in a pan once rinsed and de-strigged.
I
covered them in water and began to simmer them, adding what I hoped
was enough sugar to the mix...
...and
let them simmer away for a few hours. I then added ginger and
continued for another couple of hours.
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