The sowing conveyor belt
Reviewing the seeds I’ve sown so far this year reveals the usual pattern of some successes and some failures. But the picture has been skewed by difficulties getting hold of […]
Tag Archives: beetroot
Dry, freeze, eat, prepare
Oh let me assure you Mr. Bond, I intend to control the world’s supply of rosemary.. I would post a photo of the rosemary plant in my herb bed but […]
Coming In and Going Out
It was a big day in the garden today: after lifting various matured crops I was finally able to move the tomato plants out of the plastic tents and into […]
Harvest Time
For me, this is one of the best times of the vegetable growing year. Root crops have been rapidly swelling and there is so much lovely food to pick and […]
Unbeet-able
I have to admit, I only grew these Chioggia beetroot in order to see the wonderful rings of colour. Even this golf ball-sized specimen, lifted yesterday, exhibited the famous pattern. […]
Move over beetroot
… and make way for more beetroot. Above is the last harvest of our Boltardy planting. This went into the keftedes on the cooking and eating page. In their place, […]
Beetroot Keftedes
Keftedes are a Greek dish, usually meatballs but here based on grated beetroot. This recipe was on the Guardian web site, but comes from The Modern Vegetarian by Maria Elia […]
