1. Plant – planted more salad leaves (italian mix and extra rocket), oregano, parsley, beetroot (mainly to finish off the packet – might be lucky and get a winter crop), also planted the top of a pineapple in the hope it might grow. Planted out my biggest melon plant into the ground. It’s doing fairly well so far.
2. Harvest – eaten peas off the pod. Blackberries although they weren’t all ripe. Boo.
3. Preserve – I’m really bad at this one, I dried heaps more tomatoes as they go so quickly in this house.
4. Prepare for the future – I got a pressure cooker off freecycle so I can cook stuff quickly and make jam and that.
5. Cook something new or use up old produce – am rubbish at cooking new things I’ve been living off risotto ever since I learnt how to make it successfully, but I’ve used up a heap of berries and eaten the potatoes we dug up.
6. Manage your reserves – err…..actually I’ve been making the OH eat lots of leftovers. But could really do with reorganising the kitchen soon. Actually I’ve spent the past couple of weeks redesigning the allotment on paper so come the autumn that will be the big task, so we can have heaps more produce in a small space.
7. Work on local food systems – got given the website of a place that rents out cherry trees (we can’t have trees of our own), found a place that does 3kg bags of pulses.
ooh, this reminds me we haven’t done our own independence days update, oops! best get over to me own blog now …