All home grown!
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We've had heaps of veggies from out garden and I'm about to start vacuum packing some beetroot today.
Tomorrow I'll pick a heap of french beans and do some freezing!
Next week there will be loads of tomatoes to start making some ragu sauces for the freezer too!
Might need another freezer at this rate!!
I'll take some pics of the veggie garden later!
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Here it is now:
Peas
Broad Beans and some sad onions!
Perpetual spinach, French beans, carrots, runner beans
Runners growing over the path between two beds
Corn & potato patch (mostly dug up)
Pumpkins do really well, we grow extra, makes good pig food through the winter
More pumpkins
and last but not least our small salad garden behind the house
tomatoes gone wild!
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That is really impressive MM.

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The raised gardens have definately helped with the weed problem. Where the corn is and the potaotes were, that section is not raised and so we've had plenty of weeds in there.
The soil/compost/manure mix is great and things are growing very well.
I shall do freeze french beans tomorrow I don't have any ice to cool them after blanching.
I've cleared some of the salad garden out back today and I'll start off some more lettuces etc. We have visitors from the UK at Easter so need to crack on with that, probably get some starter plants.
We have one tomato plant in the greenhouse anad that been producing for weeks now as has the cucumber plant in there, they are rather rampant and its getting difficult to get in the green house!! The tomatoes are beginning to ripen outside so I'll make batches of ragu as I go.
I've also got quite a few peppers(what do you call em!)Ah yep capsicum.....so will think about doing a chutney maybe.
Just got to keep on top of it, which can be difficult at times. I vacuumed packed some beetroot today so we'll see how they store in the fridge.
I've got heaps of cooking apples that I need to see if they ready for picking then I'll freeze some of them too. My rhubarb looks a bit sad, it's in the wrong place but if it picks up then I'll freeze some of that too!
I even noticed one globe artichoke today, might have that for my lunch sometime next week
We haven't bought any veg now for weeks! Cut's down on the food bill.
Hopefully next year our fruit trees will produce something and we won't need to buy fruit either.
There is something very satifying about eating your own produce. You should give it a go!
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Smilie one' does one's best!

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I have given up here, not because of the weather or anything, our tank is overflowing right now, but I seem to be having trouble growing decent tomatoes and my spinach has completely gone with what I think is too much humidity. Possums got to my lettuces, which were doing fine.
Just the fruit trees left now, and the blackberry vine which isn't very nice. Thinking of ripping out that too.
Looking forward to having a Kiwi one, once the possums are dealt with[}


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