Luscious and ready from Charlotte’s garden, very good in soup 
later edit in – we very highly recommend these as they kept going through winter too! Snowball turnip seeds here
Then the last photos my camera took before it broke… oh the tragedy… the drama… but it makes an interesting change not photographing beautiful things, just gazing at them (hopefully not in too much of a half-witted fashion). So, appreciate these rowans:
Still enjoying the rowan jam and also some raspberry grown/made by friends. Got lovely new raw food book for my birthday – the art of raw living food by Doreen Virtue and Jenny Ross, some really nice recipes in there.
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Happy Birthday
thank you – and to you too (I know yours is close to mine)
I thought Rowan berries were toxic?
Charlottes Veg looks delicious, I wanted to start growing some veg ready for the winter but all the packets are saying it’s too late.
For now it’s supermarket Veg going into tonights Vegan Yorkshire stew 
Will have to wait till next year.
rowans only bad when raw, fine when cooked – still loving that jam
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan#Rowan_berries_as_food
Always found brassicas do great over winter, neeps and leeks too… though ideally should be plants by now unless you can polytunnel them… still, rules made to be broken/experimented with
little kales and cabbage below are now really big, enjoying the intermittent hot sun and torrential rain.
stew sounds lovely!
Oh, no! Your camera broke! You are getting another one, I hope? I love your photos!
Happy Birthday!
I need some advice. We have lots of rowan berries and elderberries in the garden. Could we put elderberries in smoothies? I see that you say rowans are OK when cooked, so I’ll give that a try… Maybe…. If I get round to it… I’d like to!
I think elderberries also have to be cooked – same acid thing that would give you an upset stomach.
no doubt will get another camera at some point
I have just stumbled across your blog – and have learnt something about the berries – thank you
Julia x
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