Thursday, 22 July 2010

How does your garden grow?




A few weeks ago this is how things looked out on the patio!  But since then with all the lovely sunshine and lots of watering from me, we have this:


and this


and this


We've also had some produce:


french beans and mange tout - grown in pots and for the first time!


Lovely potatoes grown in a disused dustbin and garden waste bag


my first time growing courgettes which we made into Nigel Slater's courgette, lemon, tomato and basil dish from his book Tender Volume 1.  We had it with butter beans in olive oil and mint and our lovely new potatoes - it was a feast!


1 comment:

driftwood said...

oooh it does indeed look like a feast. I've been sooo tempted by Nigels book, you know what I'm like with cookbooks, would you recommend it?

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