Property News · August 23, 2017

Glut buster: how to use up your veg after a stellar growing summer


From freezing and dehydrating fruit and vegetables to turning them into chutneys and tarts, the possibilities are endless for gardeners with a glut on their hands. You can even turn your marrows into booze …At the bottom of the garden, in a sunny flowerbed home to generous white roses and long, fragrant spikes of lavender, sits the biggest courgette plant I have ever grown. It sprawls across the lawn, a thigh-high, metre-wide hurdle between me and the shed – and it is fruiting its socks off.In this odd summer marked by an early heatwave, the usual gluts of tomatoes and courgettes are fully underway, hastened by the early sun; already my apple tree’s boughs kiss the grass below, laden and heavy. “It’s been a fantastic year in many ways but a very hard growing year – and things are really early,” notes Aaron Bertelsen, a vegetable gardener and cook at Great Dixter, the East Sussex family home of the great gardener and writer Christopher Lloyd. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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