That batch looks impressive Dove - I have never even heard of jellies made using these flavours - my mother used to make blackcurrant jelly and jam as well as strawberry and raspberry, they were delicious.
Our grapes are white. Would that work? Recipe please as they're full of pips and fiddly to eat.
Cupboards full of passata now and a good few jars of dried toms and now green tomato relish and more passata and dried ones to come. They are delicious on a simple bit of toasted wholegrain baguette.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
So happy! Haven't been able to get carrots to grow for many years now - but this year Just thinking I probably should have pulled them last week though. Still lovely to eat, very sweet and taste like carrot, bonus
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
We eat ours with game and cheese and to enrich a savoury jus or sauce .... I think we've had this conversation before @Obelixx and you decided that it wasn't for you?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you Dove, very proud (maybe too proud and next year I'll get my come uppance!) just need to pay attention and maybe stop admiring them and pull a few up occasionally before they start to look like entries for the weird vegetable class
Totally impressed by the jelly btw, you must have a lot more storage space than me! Or maybe (like me) you graze through the day? Just love cheese, biscuits and some sort of home preserve
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
Jelly, jams and chutneys live on shelves in the garage ...some gets given away ... the last lot of last year's raspberry jam went to an Indian musician my son was working with ... he'd come to the UK for the first time to work on an album and had brought son a pressie ... he thought a pot of home made raspberry jam was wonderful ... Brownie points for son and for me
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I grew 4 plants of outdoor wonder Melon this year, 2 outside & 2 in the greenhouse. At the time I planted them I had no idea we were going to get such a hot summer so I was hedging my bets. I got 2 fruits on each plant the outdoor ones were ahead of the greenhouse ones- better pollination perhaps. The only disappointment was I found it very hard to judge when they were ripe, the skin cracked they went slightly yellow, but (mostly) remained hard as bricks on the outside. This is the last one from the greenhouse & finally I got it right it was lovely.
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Grape, rosemary and balsamic jelly made
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Cupboards full of passata now and a good few jars of dried toms and now green tomato relish and more passata and dried ones to come. They are delicious on a simple bit of toasted wholegrain baguette.
We eat ours with game and cheese and to enrich a savoury jus or sauce .... I think we've had this conversation before @Obelixx and you decided that it wasn't for you?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Totally impressed by the jelly btw, you must have a lot more storage space than me! Or maybe (like me) you graze through the day? Just love cheese, biscuits and some sort of home preserve
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.