Tonight’s picture is blurred for three reasons:
- it includes vegies which aren’t in the challenge
- somehow I managed to bump my setting on my camera…and it’s too late now to fix as we have scoffed all these vegies for dinner!
- I got held up today and was incredibly late to an appointment thanks to Prince Charles and his entourage stopping traffic in Wellington (but I did manage to obtain a photo and a wave!) and sadly this meant I didn’t get to spend any time in the garden other than to pick vegies for dinner. The day has pretty much been one enormous blur!
Alas…blurred picture or not, I’m pretty delighted with the fact that we’ve just had our first artichoke of the season (was a nice little entrée!) And the best tasting broccoli this year…although this one was much later that all the other plants I planted out at the same time – it was by far the best!
And we picked oodles of snow peas which are really our star vegie this spring. (Trust me…I’ll be over them in another week and will be giving copious amounts away to friends and family). I made a really lovely asian dish with the broccoli and snow peas.
And the last thing that I harvested this evening, was a lovely plump and juicy lemon which I used with my artichoke. Our lemons have been utterly amazing this year and I have some idea as to why, but won’t elaborate seeing as it’s not part of the challenge either.
I’m just bursting to mention too that I picked my first peony flower of the season. I have been growing peonies for a year and a half now and they are my most favourite flower. All the experts keep telling me they’re really hard to grow in Wellington because it’s not cold enough. But I’m delighted that mine seem to be doing really well.
On that happy note, I am going to go and crash in a heap. It has been far too long a day and I need to try and relax before my hectic schedule tomorrow!
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