Spring 2016

 

  Heirloom tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins and squashes are germinating 

( sown in Early March in propagator )
So is lettuce, onions, leeks, lobelias, primoroses, carnations, wallflowers, herbs, cardoons and carrots.
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 March`2016
 we harvest last years salsify, leeks and this years early lettuce leaves, lamb lettuce and cress

February 2016 lettuce seedlings

March 2016- pumpkins and squashes

March 2015- cucumbers and tomato seedlings

March 2015- heirloom tomato seedlings

  great germination from most heirloom tomato seeds,especially Black Plum, Ferline, Roma, Wladek`s, White Scottish Egg, Banana, Azoychka and Morgage Lifter

March 2015- garden flowers

Fresh from the garden

Tomato harvest- 2015 heirloom

Leczo / Lesco

Hungarian Lecso Recipe - Tomato-Pepper Stew Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons bacon grease or oil
• 1 medium onion, sliced thinly
• 1 pound banana or Italian or green bell peppers. cut into 1/4-inch strips
• 3 large very ripe tomatoes, peeled and chopped
• 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt (less if using sausage)
• 1 tablespoon sweet Hungarian paprika
  optional: add cubed courgettes
   garnish with herbs

Preparation

• In a large skillet, saute the onion in bacon fat or oil over low heat for 5 minutes. Add pepper and cook another 15 minutes. Add tomatoes, sugar, salt and paprika and cook for another 25-30 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until mixture resembles chunky tomato sauce.
  
  Variations

• Toward the end of the cooking time, add 4 beaten eggs and mix in.
• For a main meal, add 1 1/2 pounds smoked or fresh Hungarian sausage.
• For a lunch, serve in a bowl topped with a fried egg.
  

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Mid July garden- part II- edible

 The tomatoes are growing rather nicely with first crop of cherry tomatoes ( red and yellow), tiger toms, plum tomatoes and Hungarian hearts. Also courgettes green and yellow, cucumbers and plenty of lettuce and herbs.

  Raised `salad bar` table  with slug protection  ( BTW, with a pair of ducks running free  and one  hard working coastal mole, no sign of slugs this year!!!!!

  Herbal table : here thyme, lemon thyme, basil, dill, mint and winter savoury, plus two baskets full of oregano

woodwork table /potting table with some decorative plant display, also pepper and chilly plants,  mint, tomato plant ( tumbling Tom) , chinese gooseberry plant, stevia, cans with flat leaf parsley and chocolate mint.

 Strawbale garden is thriving too ( courgettes ( green and yellow), a pumpkin, a marrow plant,  a sunflower plant, some runner beans and lamb lettuce germinating and doing nicely.
  To the right: Ollie`s patch with exceptionally tall Jerusalem artichokes, a nicotinum, some asters, sweetcorn plants and many more

                  Mini- garden next to the caravan, red rose, verbena plant,  ornamental grass ( in making),
                                          hollyhocks, curry plant, nasturtium and gazanias

greenhouse cherry vine  toms

                                                              mustard leaves, rocket and dill

 

                      Brazilian stevia plant ( sewn last year- I didn`t realize, it`s a perennial ! )

                                                                     more tiger toms

nice crop of mini cucumbers on  a single climbing plant

                                                           and today`s special!!!!!



                                                                  ` laizy Maisy`

                                                              Parents and children

                                                        Isobel `Izzy`