It was our autumn horticultural show this weekend. As usual, I managed to find a few things to enter, and this was one of them - a basket of fruit and/or vegetables grown on the allotments. Mine consisted of apples, potatoes (I managed to find 4 without slug holes!) sweetcorn, onions, runner beans and garlic. Astonishingly it not only won first in its class, but was given 'Best in Show'! I also took first prize for specimen vegetable (a butternut squash), onions and a couple of others. However, in the jam class I committed the cardinal sin of using a jar with a screw lid rather than a twist cap, so despite the excellent flavour it went nowhere!
On the allotment, things are beginning to come to a close. There are a few more beans and courgettes to pick, plus butternut squash, beetroot, carrots and sweetcorn, but it is almost time to start the cycle of manuring, digging etc again. I have some garlic cloves to plant out, plus some overwintering onion sets, and there will of course be some winter vegetables - leeks (very poor) swedes (very small) and sprouting broccoli - to pick.
No comments:
Post a Comment