Globe Artichoke
This year has been a bit hit and miss in the garden. The late spring not making the gardeners life any easier, at one’s busiest time. Stuff was late going into trays, and later coming out of them…..some abandoned altogether, better luck next year hey! Anyway some stuff that made it into the ground has thrived, a beautiful cauliflower, almost hidden with nitrogen thick leaves that mind it’s milky curd, purple sprouting broccoli, jumping out at you. The beetroot, the best ever, in the tunnel and out, the amazing celery from last year, thick and green and bursting with life. A heritage type mange-tout, that can’t be picked fast enough, and the globe artichokes that reproduce by new shoots at the base and just keep on giving…a recipe will follow. By all accounts it’s going to be a great year for garlic too, as I have Autumn and Spring planted varieties that are doing very well indeed, great to have your own garlic for the year ahead, strong, antibiotic, essential gifts from the soil. If you grow nothing else grow garlic, it is so easy to plant and so rewarding to harvest, plait and store and has no pests…..a must. So to dinner with my boys….
We made bread rolls for mopping up the juices from these beautiful vegetables I pulled out of the earth a couple of hours ago.
Dinner rolls
Plate juice
