The green house was a good success and I'm hoping for even better next year. I got a steady supply of ripe tomatoes August & September, which went into sandwiches with my fresh homemade bread.
When high winds brought down all my cooking apples in September, only about 5lbs but 4 times what I got last year, they needed using up, SO I made 3 huge jars of 3 Delia Smiths sweet mincemeet and 3 classic Christmas puddings, 1 Christmas cake, 2 Apple pies and then using up the huge glut of Green Tomatoes, the first 8 jars Delia's green tomato chutney was bottled on the 3rd October followed by another 8 jars about 4 weeks later when I cleared the green house out.
Because so much vinegar is used in the recipe you must wait at least 8 weeks before eating so I can't yet report on the taste but hopefully the jar of "store bought" chutney currently in my fridge will be my last.
I got a bowl of cherries early September but they weren't very tasty might just be cos it was the first fruit or maybe I should have picked them earlier, more worrying is that it might just get hot enough up here in rural Northumberland. The plum, eating apple and pear trees have yet to fruit. I can't wait for the plums
The onions did so/so, the carrots & parsnips did great but were short & stumpy, the turnips were small but very tasty (I made lots of stews). The rest didn't germinate.
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