Another good harvest day. Carrot thinnings have given loads of small sweet carrots which will be lovely raw in salads or used in a stir fry, and a couple of bigger slicing carrots that may go in the freezer as I am making up stew packs which already have some of the baby turnips and will have leeks and swede when they are ready. We have also made our first picking of rainbow chard which aparantly is treated like spinach but more colourful. From one packet of seeds we have at least five different colours. There is bright red, pale pink, yellow, orange and green. Another hugh cucumber and lots more courgettes as well as our first pickings of French beans. Back to the recipe book tomorrow for this lot.
There are three ridge cucumbers ready for picking and I am going to treat these as gurkins and slice and pickle them but no until after Sunday when we intend to enter the show at The Walled Garden, Down Grange and one of the categories is 'two cucumbers'. It is a shame that we haven't got two of the long straight ones as they are impressive.
We are also intending to enter the following categories:
Vegetable Class
5. Five white potatoes of one variety
9. An odd shaped vegetable
11. Eight pods of dwarf or climbing french beans or stringless beans
15. Four beetroot with tops trimmed to approximately 7.5cm/3ins
18. Two cucumbers
23. Two vegetables of the same variety which is not listed above
24. A collection of four distinct kings of vegetables presented in a box or tray
Home Produce Classes
65. Five cheese scones (recipe provided)
70. Five cheese straws
This will all be good practice for the Old Basing Show in September and so that we can get some inside knowledge about presentation.
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