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Growing Your Own Fruit and Vegetables

We grow our own fruit and vegetables for our meals for as much of the year as we can. Without a greenhouse we have to buy shop food in the winter months but in the spring, summer and autumn we often have enough to share with family and friends.

Read about growing your fruit and vegetables here on my growing your own food pages.

Wednesday, 16 November 2011

What happened to the Redcurrants and Blackcurrants I had saved ?

The currants I had frozen down to save for Christmas got defrosted by mistake, so they ended up being cooked up into a compote and eaten with porridge and toast and not used as a dessert as I had planned.

The carrots from the raised beds are doing well, and we cooked up some  for a dinner party they were really tasty.  The meal also included chestnut stuffing, made by a quick method of adding a vacuum packed pack of chestnuts  (half a pack chopped up finely) to a standard pack of sage and onion stuffing.
the roast potatoes cooked up well, fluffy on the inside and crispy on the outside.
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a healthy potato plant in flower

a healthy potato plant in flower
photo of potatoes in flower

home grown carrots.. grown from seed

home grown carrots.. grown from seed
photo of my first bunch of carrots 2009

Even a small batch of mixed fruit can be useful

Even a small batch of mixed fruit can be useful
Home Grown Fruit can be made into delicious compote