In my last post, I wrote that I had lifted the onions as the forecast was for a warm dry period. Of course, the forecast was wrong and we had rain. The onions were not going to dry out sitting on wet soil so, last week, I moved them. We put together a makeshift drying rack using sides from an old bird cage, some chicken wire, empty water butts and bits of wood. At least now the onions and shallots are raised off the ground and when the inevitable rain falls it should drain away. Ironically, after I had moved the onions, we had a couple of warm dry afternoons. The weather is playing games with me!
Other than to harvest a few things we only managed to work on the allotment at the weekend when I did more clearing of beds whilst Martyn dug more potatoes.
As well as harvesting from the allotment we are picking tomatoes and cucumbers from the garden.
We also harvested tomatoes from the greenhouse in the garden which have been frozen to use for making pasta sauce later in the year.
When the weather has been dry, the priority was to get out with Ruby.
The cygnets at Nostell are now showing off their growing wings. They look very proud.
The trees and plants are now producing seed cases and berries which gives everything a distinctly autumnal feel. There’s not much time left for summer to show itself.
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On the allotment, I still haven’t caught any butterflies on the buddleias but we did have some activity on the tayberry canes. Martyn managed to get a photo of a dragonfly using his camera phone. I was too late trying to grab my camera as he/she flew away.
I did, however, manage to snap a couple of speckled wood butterflies. One was much paler than the other.
Finally last week I used some of our cabbage, garlic, peas and frozen leeks in a spiced chicken rice.
I used our onion, garlic, courgette, green beans and peas in a Thai green vegetable curry. I can’t find the recipe on the internet but to our vegetables, I added Thai green curry paste, stock, milk, soy sauce, coriander and desiccated coconut
That’s all for this week. I wonder whether we will have more than just a taste of summer before August is gone?
As usual stay safe and well.
Once again I am linking to Harvest Monday at Dave’s Our Happy Acres blog.
Our complete harvest list for August can be found here.
What a wonderful harvest, especially those onions. My, the synets have grown. Loving the autumn images and the butterflies, yes it’s creeping in for sure. That curry looks fab.xxx
Just hoping that the onions dry well, Dina
I do love a Thai green curry dish, and yours sounds delicious. The dahlias are beautiful too!
We like Thai curry too Dave. In fact we like most curries.
That is looking Autumnal – all too soon I feel 😔
Beautiful flowers, it seems to have been an exceptional year for dahlias
Much too soon Belinda
Your website is so nicely designed and very functional. A pleasure to use with the auto-fill for comments. Dahlias are gorgeous and I admire those who grow them with ease in their climate.
The website has to link to areas from our old site, Sue as we couldn’t access the content to transfer it. The app we used was closed down. This has happened to us several times so I hope WordPress keeps going
Sue, you have such a rich crop of onions. Do you really eat all the onions until spring? I like the bouquet of dahlias and gladiolus by the fireplace. The swans have grown up, I remember your photos when they were small.
WE do Nadezda – some are frozen to bridge the gap. I used onions a lot in my cooking.