Kitchen Garden

SO MUCH TO HARVEST ALREADY!

July certainly is a challenge for us gardeners. With so much to harvest, sow, plant and pick, it’s difficult to decide what to do first when you go in the garden. That said, one of my favourite things to do is harvest from the greenhouse in the morning with a cup of tea.

If you started aubergines and tomatoes off early in the year, you should now be seeing the fruits of your labour, with ripening fruits starting to appear everywhere you look. I’ve grown more of the oriental type aubergines this year, the ones which are long and thin like a cucumber, rather than the large traditional types. I find them easier to slice and cook with as they can be thrown into a curry

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