A couple of years ago I bought a pair of low boots to wear in the garden when it is wet underfoot. I was seduced by the cute yellow dog pattern on navy rubber boots.
The potager shed
The potager shed
A couple of years ago I bought a pair of low boots to wear in the garden when it is wet underfoot. I was seduced by the cute yellow dog pattern on navy rubber boots.
All summer I’ve been thinking how lovely it would be to have breakfast or brunch with friends in the vegetable garden.
As if this summer hasn’t been dry enough, the lovely Ali bought me a dehydrator for my birthday! Actually, I couldn’t be more thrilled. The freezer is exploding with veg-herds pies, soups & sauces.
This evening we’re invited to a big birthday party. We’re taking a dish of cour-bhajis and some chilli dipping sauce. I really hope people enjoy them as much as we did while I was cooking. There were a lot more than in the photo but we couldn’t resist eating them as they came out of the fryer.
Most of my life I’ve had hens, but since moving to this house we hadn’t really thought about keeping them again.
The 40℃+ heatwave resulted in some of the tomatoes, quite literally, cooking on the vine.
Ali & I have just taken a brief four day break in Genoa which is just a six hour drive along the south coast of France, then a wiggle around the Ligurian coastline.
My great aunt Kath & grandma Vera both used to make prized blackcurrant jelly. Mum said it was too much of a faff,
We currently have lots of new potatoes, carrots, onions and peas coming out of the kitchen garden.
I’ve just spent a very pleasurable morning giving a kitchen garden workshop to Jules, Miles & Joss.
….call it what you will. This is a wonderful addition to the kitchen garden.
At this time of the year we are spoilt for choice when it comes to produce to cook.
Now that Open Gardens is over for at least another year I can ease off the pressure.
We opened our garden on the mornings of 10 & 11 May, then all day on Sunday 12 May.
