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All grown from seed and planted in my plastic containers and wooden planks raised beds. I piked lots of buckets of well rotted fym into the beds and weeded and watered and they rewarded us with our fresh, organic and homegrown vegetables. What more could you want from your veg plot?
J went to town and to Lidl and came back with 2KG of Orla Organic potatoes for 2.99 and a "big" chicken for 6.99. Total 10 Euros for four of us. Or 8 Pounds thirty three if you live across the Irish sea in Blighty.
For those of you who weren't very good at Metalwork. That works out at 2 Pounds each per person. Not bad for a nearly organic and homegrown tea.
Yum.... I buy 2 chicken breast fillets for £2.50 at our local Co-Op. We usually have them baked in foil with lemon juice, parsley and ginger paste and some roast potatoes. Cheap!
ReplyDeleteLemon and lime juice is wonderful JayCee. Did you ever read my post about a lad I worked with going to a wake at his relatives house in Yorkshire and they said they would go to Cope for more bottles of ale? They set off down the street and my workmate saw a big sign: Co-Op. You found a bargain tea fo you and P.
ReplyDeleteThe taste of home grown is vastly better than any purchased veg, enjoy your harvest. We don't eat many potatoes here, I prefer rice. Marlene, Poppypatchwork
ReplyDeleteYes I agree Marlene. You can't buy that newly dug and fresh vegetables that you get when you grow your own!
ReplyDeleteSwede is one of my favorite vegetables. An early harvest there Dave, they are always said to be best after a couple of frosts. Scottish swedes are good and we get them in the shops around here but any homegrown vegetable is the best.
ReplyDeleteNeeps and Tatties Rachel. Rabbie Burns favourite. They and the parsnips do taste nicwr when the frosts have turned the starches to sugars. You can't beat homegrown or picked from the field first thing Rachel .
ReplyDeleteI had the first leek, yellow and red beetroot and peas, all from the garden last night as part of supper..very satisfying.
ReplyDeleteVery nice GZ. It's this time of year when you really enjoy the harvest. I wish the early potatoes were ready now and not in summer. It's great to be eating your labours and planning for spring and next year. We planted out Calabrese yesterday.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you could try planting some new potato varieties in june/july next year to have fresh new spuds in October.
DeleteMaybe TM. I planted a big sack of new potatoes in spring and we ate them all. I would have to make more beds for lates.
DeleteSwedes...everytime you write about them I wish we could find one. Great vegetable. As is the leek.
ReplyDeleteI love swedes Linda especially when they are the size of a tennis ball. We eat some member of the Allium family every day. Ask for vegetable seeds for Christmas.
DeleteIt's so much cheaper to cook your own meals . A big chicken costs about the same here. I get them to cut a chook in half , eat one half, the other in the freezer. Don't often have our own winter veges though
ReplyDeleteYou can freeze most vegetables including onions and tomatoes or what ever the shops are selling off. Great idea freezing half the bird.
ReplyDeleteNot bad. And I imagine everything tasted all the better for having been home grown.
ReplyDeleteIt was inexpensive meat and potatoes and we provided some of our homegrown veg Jules. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteSwede is an interesting idea for next year. Must remember to look for Swede and not turnip, which is what we called it when I was little.
ReplyDeleteRutabaga or Swedish Turnip is its other names Tasker. Very easy to grow from seed. White Turnips are also worth growing.
ReplyDeleteThat top picture of the swede and the leek looks like the front cover of a children's storybook titled "The Swede and The Leek". The swede came from Gothenburg but the leek came from Leek in Staffordshire. This would be the first line: "Once upon a time there was a swede and a leek."
ReplyDeleteYou have got a vivid imagination Mr Pudding. It could be a best seller like Heinz baked beans?
ReplyDelete"Once upon a time there was a baked bean called Heinz and back in 1962, he had a hit single called 'Telstar' ".
DeleteHeinz owned a mixed breec terrier. He claimed that it had 57 different varieties. He called it Heinz 57.
ReplyDeleteHeinz 57 bit Heinz 57 times because that mixed breed terrier always wanted to be called Fido or Rover.
DeleteWould it play for Blackburn, Doncaster or Shamrock Rovers?
ReplyDeleteNone of them. Bristol Rovers!
DeleteOh right. There are 22 teams in the world called Rovers. Tranmere' is another one.
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