Just gets better!!!

Today me and Evie nipped to the Lottie just to check progress and was told by another Lottie holder that our broccoli was ready. Before he had finished what he was saying I had nipped back home to get a knife and carrier bag and started to harvest. Only 10 of 30 plants were ready but as you can see there is enough to keep up going for a couple of meals.

We was told the best way to store these is to boil them approximately for 2 minutes, place them in freezing cold water, let them dry out then bag them up for the freezer.

We left the last batch of broccoli to boil the completely. Wow, not only can you see the difference but you can really taste the difference. We all loved it including Evie (cant be bad). It was great for her to be bagging it all up with me one minute at the Lottie then literally 20 minutes later eating it at home. Surely cant get any fresher than that.

We have also dug up a full row of Duke of York potatoes which we filled over a 12.5kg bag. we have already gave most of this away to friends and family - Awaiting feedback now!!!

Harvest Begins!!!

We curiously dug up one of the potato plants today not knowing we would discover some modest sized potatoes attached. We lifted a few more plants which was slightly hit and miss but before we knew it we had half a bucket of nice sized potatoes. We lifted up 7 plants - Only another 193 plants to go. Shame Evie doesn't like them, he he!!! Hope everyone else does. Also lifted our first cabbage which tasted lovely. Its so exciting to cook with our own home grown produce. Even if we have got enough potatoes to feed the U.S Army.

We also planted 3 varieties of tomato plants - 2 x Shirley plants - 2 x money makers & 2 x Plum tomatoes. Quite intrigued to see how these turn out as the lottie is quite an open site to winds,etc. I'm sure if we stake them well they will be okay. As we had no more room at home we thought we would experiment with some peppers on the allotment. Really not expecting anything to happen but just thought we would see if they would survive there.

Whilst we were down there we noticed that the calabrese was just starting to show. Apparently within a week or two these will be ready to harvest as well which is exciting.