Summer Vegetables

We are loving eating organic vegetables. Here are some pictures of my vegetable garden this year. I hope this inspires you to start your own garden. It does not have to be huge. You can even grow  vegetables in pots.

Above is the frame Glenn made for our beans, but there must have been some courgette seeds from last year quietly sitting in the soil. We came back from holiday, with my path full of plants.

We still have another garden to fill with soil, but that will happen next summer. 

Handy man Glenn made me a table, so handy - table and Glenn :)

I have grown quite a few varieties of low acid tomatoes. 

When you realise some of your tomatoes are not going to turn red.

Not all tomatoes are red. Orange tomatoes also have lycopene in them, which is much more easily absorbed than the red tomatoes. A high antioxidant and having anti cancer benefits, great for bone health and helps prevent heart disease, high vitamin C, a good amount of manganese and Vitamin E.

Not as sweet as the red tomatoes, but it is nice for a change to eat an orange tomato.

A mornings pickings.

Pet Magpie loves a squirt with the hose.

Off to get blackcurrants. We freeze these and use them for jam and smoothies. Yes that is maggie flying low with Glenn and Coco.

A couple of little helpers.

Here is a dish that is full of my vegetables. Place cooked vegetables and herbs into a large dish and then pour beaten season egg's over the top. Bake at 200c until the egg's have cooked.

I cant do without my herb garden.

I grow 3 different types of organic TEA. It comes back every year, which means, I am able to pick fresh tea leaves and dry them every Summer.

I have Spearmint, Peppermint and Liquorice.

Today is a lovely day for drying these leaves outside ( November) otherwise I would place them in my green house.

Glenn and I have so much fun gardening. The reward is beyond words. Sitting down to eat a meal that most of it you have grown, well it makes it all worth it.

Happy gardening xx