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:
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!).
Going to have a LOT of currants this year, freezer time again I think:
down in the veg patch:
poor kale never gets a chance to grow big here, repeatedly being savaged for smoothies
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…
and there’s the first of the ripe blackcurrants:
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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?
We roasted our first potatoes …. lovely
Never had much luck with black currants though
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
Oooh yum. New tatties, love em.
they are so good… having to resist pulling them all up now, but they are still growing