a toolbox of lettuce

Posted by Lucy on July 4, 2009

red salad bowl, or 'oak leaf'

Decided I had to put a container of something here in the very hottest spot on the property – sheltered by walls to North and East, it’s a veritable sun trap. So, old toolbox found in shed, a packet of red salad bowl and one hot weeks growth later :) Looking the other way from here:

lovely place to sit

The orange trees: one living, still protected from rabbits and one deceased. They were never designed to grow here despite the protective fence to the North and bubble wrap in winter… I have nabbed a sweet chestnut sapling off ebay for £3 which is destined to fill the space of the late tree there. Plants in the foreground are a chamomile lawn in it’s infancy (hopefully!).

lovely log to sit on too

Going to have a LOT of currants this year, freezer time again I think:

ripening blackcurrants

down in the veg patch:

curly kale, rocket, lettuce, self seeded borage

poor kale never gets a chance to grow big here, repeatedly being savaged for smoothies :)

scarlet kale, beetroot, rocket

a favoured dish just now, homemade oven chips: scrub new tatties, cut into chips or wedges, rub a tablespoon or so of olive oil and a little salt (sea or pink Himalayan are both good) all over them and bake at 200C for 20-30 mins…

yum

nice with salad

and there’s the first of the ripe blackcurrants:

a blurry photographic effort, but it's too late to take a better one, all eaten!!

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5 Responses to a toolbox of lettuce

  1. Penny says:
    July 5, 2009 at 7:04 pm

    Your garden’s looking great! That honeysuckle over the veranda is gorgeous! The oven chips are making me even hungrier than I am already… And is that cheesecake under the blackcurrants?

  2. nikkiandco says:
    July 5, 2009 at 7:51 pm

    We roasted our first potatoes …. lovely :) Never had much luck with black currants though

  3. Lucy says:
    July 6, 2009 at 11:06 am

    yes, it is cheesecake, a real treat :)

    blackcurrants seem to do really well up here – we had them at our last house as well. oranges not so much ;)

  4. Elaine says:
    July 8, 2009 at 8:33 pm

    Oooh yum. New tatties, love em.

  5. Lucy says:
    July 8, 2009 at 9:38 pm

    they are so good… having to resist pulling them all up now, but they are still growing :)