Nice to see others getting up to gardening! I have also been busy in my garden and it's been a pretty good year so far for gardening with lots of sunshine and lots rain. So here's a few pictures from my garden over the past few weeks.
Unfortunately my established bed of strawberries, lost the war against the invading bindweed. But on the bright side, the wild strawberries are thriving as usual.
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| Wild strawberries grow pretty much everywhere, keep an eye out for them on your walks! |
While my strawberries may not be doing so well, it has been a fantastic year for red currants. They usually do pretty good but I'm always so busy this time of year I can't get to them before the birds do. But this year, thanks to lock-down, I got to them first!
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| This isn't even all of them, I had two more boxes in the freezer! |
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| Making the Jelly |
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| The finished product |
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| Vinegar ready to steep |
I used the leftover pulp to make redcurrant vinegar, by adding some white vinegar and leaving it to steep in the fridge for two weeks. You can also do this with blackberries and it makes a great salad dressing! The recipes i used were:
https://lovelygreens.com/making-redcurrant-jelly/
https://puttingupwiththeturnbulls.com/2011/08/03/one-womans-garbage-is-another-womans-vinegar/
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| Flowers on my runner beans |
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| Latest harvest of beans |
My broad beans have been plagued with black fly as usual but they managed to provide a decent crop of beans with more on the way. I treat them with soapy water, which was fairly successful (thankfully the rain seems to have mostly killed them off now). My runner beans have only just gotten started but they're already flowering!
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| Latest harvest of rhubarb |
The Rhubarb has been going strong the past few weeks and my dad has been picking it pretty regularly to make rhubarb crumble!
Hope you are all well and happy growing!
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