In eastern Scotland there have been some warm bright days, hastening the harvest. The hum of harvesters is in the air, and the dust! In the garden, I’ve finally a lot of fruit and veg to choose from. Here are some of my crops for SixOnSaturday.
To emulate what’s happening in the fields around here, I dug some tatties. These are Shetland Black. Deep purple outside, inside a creamy white, with a purple stripe in the flesh about 1cm in. VERY tasty, especially when roasted.
Back in August I could barely find 3 courgette to enter into the village show. Not so now, courgettes are everywhere, with the yellow varieties doing best this year. I’m hoping for some warmish nights to keep them going as long as possible.
Most fruit are finished now, yet a few blueberries are still ripening. They have done so well in the cool and very wet summer. Blueberry muffins will cheer our autumn and winter as a reminder of summer. These fruit freeze very well for baking later.
Into the greenhouse. I have a fine crop of achocha, as I do most years. These are a Peruvian vine, grown as an annual (doing best in the greenhouse this far north). About the size of a plum, they will be deseeded and used in stir fry a bit lit a bell pepper.
Even a few of my chilli plants are finally making a show of some decent fruit. These are ‘lemon drop’. Nice and spicy but with a lemony flavour.
Tomatoes have been wonderful. I’ve yet to taste this variety: ‘blue fire’ has really taken its time, still not quite ripe, but very pretty so far.
I hope you enjoyed my fruitful harvest. And thanks to those leaving comments on the blog – sorry if I don’t always get back to you on time! The blog is going well, but it would be great if more folk on Mastodon, or other parts of the Fediverse got into tooting a Six! Go on, its a much kinder form of social media, not controlled by crazy billionaires. All you need to do is find 6 things in your garden to show us. Then post on social, or add a link at Jim’s blog below. For regulars, our organiser is Jim at https://gardenruminations.co.uk/. And I’m on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot