What are you eating this year???

[kenneal - lagger]

We had a home grown meal tonight. The first of this year's potatoes, autumn sown broad beans with last years onions, last years chard/spinach and last autumn's lamb chops from the freezer.

We could have had fresh rhubarb, AGAIN, but for a change I had banana and yogurt (not home grown). We've still got blackberries, blackcurrents and raspberries in the freezer from last year.

We have Japanese onions planted last autumn available, baby carrots, getting larger, planted in the polytunnel in February and next year, at this time, we will have asparagus as well.

We dug up the last of the leaks about a week ago to put in parsnips, carrots, turnips and swede. The polytunnel carrots will have to come out soon to make way for the rest of the tomatoes. We will sell some of these but will bottle a lot for the winter.

We've just bought another polytunnel so that we can rotate our tunnel crops and also grow more. Half the area of the new tunnel will be available for the workshops that we run now and will mean that we can do more in the future without worrying about the weather to much.

We're looking at replacing a couple of small glass houses that blew down in the gales with a heavy duty polytunnel, as its in an exposed position, and just keeping one 8 x 12 greenhouse for early propagation.