The July glut

After a weekend house-sitting for my folks, come home with a boot full of produce from their jungle-like veg patch.

Chard, spinach (snail nibbled), first dwarf beans, courgettes, kohl rabi, chillies, raspberries – it’s all coming now. Feel the annual stress of the summer glut beginning.

Suspect our allotment is about a month behind the Worcestershire one. Planted out the Turks Turban, all 9 of them, and harvested a pitifully small amount of summer raspberries, last of the strawberries, last of the red currants – the ones the birds didn’t find – and very first of the blackberries.

In the past few weeks all the outdoor greens and tomatoes have found a new lease of life, filling out, shooting up and generally getting a whole lot more virile.

To the kitchen.

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Raspberries ready for the freezer

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Greens ready for processing

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Basil stripped and ready for pesto

The chard, spinach and last strands of cima di rapa are cooked down, drained, squeezed and chopped. What for? Spanakopita? Curry? Tart? Freezer?

 

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