Rainbow Carrots

Made carrot and coriander soup, using our pretty multi-coloured carrots - the soup turned out orange as normal but the pinky carrot kept its colour after cooking.

French Bean Chutney

Spent a few hours this afternoon making french bean chutney - we used our shallots instead of onions and our first harvest of french beans (just managed to get 0.5kg of beans)

First Patty Pan (Balmoral)

This is our first patty pan, picked in the rain to eat, stuffed with broad beans and carrots, for my lunch.

Veggies for my mum

Really lovely hot and sunny day.  I took a trugful of veggies to my mum - pulled the last of the Rocket potatoes and so was able to squeeze 6 more leeks into the space.



We sat in the sun most of the afternoon and in the evening went back up to the plot for a bat hunt. We didn't see any though! We heard a few on the bat detector, but not many although there seemed to be plenty of moths and bugs about - perhaps the bad winter really took its toll on the bat population here :-(

Lettuce flower and nature..

This is what lettuce looks like if you let it go to seed and then leave in the ground for a year - really quite beautiful! The flowers are on long spikes of stem - over a metre tall - amazing!

And this is what I found living in our compost bin - eek! He's probably helping in some way and as long as he stays there and doesn't get too close to me then no problem!

Rather prettier was this comma buttefly I managed to snap before it took off again...