Saturday Garden Loot - 6 July 2019
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For the first time in yonks, and partly because there’s no Sunday Supper tonight, last night’s supper was an old fashioned chicken roast dinner. Equally old fashioned, the vegetables. Traditional carrots and peas.
But.
They were freshly pulled and plucked from the garden yesterday and then lightly boiled (with the stock used for the gravy) and the carrots dressed with a little knob of butter and fresh, chopped parsley.
The flavours took me back some 50 years to our vegetable garden in Grahamstown when I’d pull carrots and rinse them and eat them before they even got to the kitchen. Much the same with the peas. How enough arrived in the kitchen, let alone in the case of the peas, for freezing, was in spite of my sister and I.
All these years later and all these years of having our own vegetables, the pleasure does not diminish.
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Fiona
The Sandbag House
McGregor, South Africa
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Aren't you guys in winter down there? You can still garden in winter? I'm jealous.
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Hello, @phoenixwren
Yes we can garden in winter - there are some crops that do better in winter than in summer. Like peas and fava beans and the brassicas - broccoli and cauliflower. There are about three or four months in the year when we wouldn't plant anything: February because it's too hot and dry, and then July into August - few seeds will germinate because the soil temperature is too low. It is good, though for planting trees and shrubs and some seedlings. Work in the garden is never done.... ;)
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