Hi there it's ME on home food thoughts - Monday, 19th May 2014

My first runner bean harvest...all ready for the pot!!!

Also....three rows of potatoes!

I'm growing green peppers too!

My flower garden...

A catch-up for May!  I've been on garden-leave, with more gardening still waiting to be done, for I've begun a veg. garden in an abandoned and unwanted garden space.  It's all in rather an awful mess and, because of the lateness of the season, as regards to getting plants under way and into production, I'm digging up weeds and old plants, and planting my new veggies in as soon as I have a cleared ground area.

I've put in three trenches of potatoes in last week and green shoots have started to poke their heads thru' already!  Of course, they were well developed tubers, being late to plant, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a good harvest!!!

Food has had to be quick and easy!  My liver and bacon........well goodness me, its 1st July, where have the weeks flown by!

So here's a catch-up for the last few missing weeks!....

And now its the second week of August!  I'm harvesting my runner beans and French beans and herbs. My tomato plants are handsomely tom

ating...can't wait for them to redden up ....but could make green tomato chutney if they don't???  The runner beans are absolutely delicious and I'm picking them as quickly as I can.  You simply must not allow runner beans to grow too big for that's how they become tough and too stringy..and then they are just awful.  I've heard tell this year's a bad year for beans and I've tried some bad ones myself.  I'm terribly fortunate in growing mine on a bed of very well nourished and fed earth for despite the fact I'm working on a regenerated garden, in a previous life, the garden was keenly worked, nourished and cared for. That's the secret of my success and that's so thrilling.

Being so late to get the garden into production, I had no idea how my plants would fare, and with little time to keep new weeds at bay, sufficient watering and holiday absence, we're all amazed by its productive powers to date.  I shall be looking to growing many more veggies next summer.

My tomato plants...