If I can keep the routine going, I can harvest a dozen or so carrots pretty well most weeks of the year.
This was an accidental discovery. I had some friends coming for lunch and I had baked ricotta with salad in my mind. But I’d forgotten that I’d used the ricotta. Oops.
I’ve developed a fetish for beetroot dip open sandwiches for lunch.
I’ve learned, if I lose a variety, the best insurance is a fellow gardener who has kept the gene line going.
I have a theory that bitter tastes are often acquired tastes, because bitter foods are usually either medicinal or poisonous. So natural selection would favour tasters who were very tentative and cautious at first, but if there were no adverse effects, decided they really liked the flavour.
Pumpkin season. Infinite number of pumpkin recipes required. This one has used up several of our pumpkins, and will use up several more before the season ends.
Citrus season has started. We are picking the first of the mandarins, oranges and grapefruit, and we have so many lemons and limes coming on that I don’t even resent the cockatoos getting into them.