Finally a moment of elation this growing season!!!
We have broadbeans big enough to cook with!
Its the first year I've grown these and last weekend all of a sudden I noticed there were pods big enough to eat. I meant to check them with my taste buds there and then but gardening jobs distracted me. But tonight was the night I finally checked them and as soon as I started to open the furry jacket to try one I got nostalgic smells from childhood. No doubt my father grew them for us when I was a child on the small holding.
Here's a pic of the first beauties I've brought into the kitchen - there were more I could have harvested but would like to savour the others fresh in another meal.
I grew them in a sack container in 50/50 vermicompost/spent compost mixture and the seeds were planted last October.
After many knock backs and trials and tribulations this season my passion for gardening is rushing back in leaps and bounds - even in a year as tough as this it really is worth all the graft. There's nothing better than eating something you've grown from seed, fed with your homemade compost and your homemade fertilizer and finally savoured in your kitchen.
We have broadbeans big enough to cook with!
Its the first year I've grown these and last weekend all of a sudden I noticed there were pods big enough to eat. I meant to check them with my taste buds there and then but gardening jobs distracted me. But tonight was the night I finally checked them and as soon as I started to open the furry jacket to try one I got nostalgic smells from childhood. No doubt my father grew them for us when I was a child on the small holding.
Here's a pic of the first beauties I've brought into the kitchen - there were more I could have harvested but would like to savour the others fresh in another meal.
I grew them in a sack container in 50/50 vermicompost/spent compost mixture and the seeds were planted last October.
After many knock backs and trials and tribulations this season my passion for gardening is rushing back in leaps and bounds - even in a year as tough as this it really is worth all the graft. There's nothing better than eating something you've grown from seed, fed with your homemade compost and your homemade fertilizer and finally savoured in your kitchen.
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