Well this year our fruit garden has done quite well. We have had a bumper crop of gooseberries, red currants, black currants, mirabella (small plums) & apples. We also had a decent crop of strawberries. So I have been kept busy picking, cleaning, packing & preserving. Usually I make a few batches of jams out of some of the fruit & then pack the rest to be frozen, which I did again this year. But I also started making my own saft (100% fruit juice cordial). This is something that is a staple drink over here. You boil the fruit in a special pot a bit like a steamer for a few hours & then add sweetner & preservative & bottle.
Our vege garden also hasn't done too bad, though got off to a little bit of a slow start due to a cold snap in the weather early in the season. But we have a decent crop of radish, potatoes, tomatoes, beetroot, letucce, carrots, zucchini, pumpkin & onions.
So are beetroot a summer only crop in Denmark? We haven't eaten much out of our garden since about April/May even though I made sure that I planted stuff early in Autumn. We ate our first broccolini last night, but most the plants still haven't headed. I'm looking forward to spring and starting to plant spring/summer crops. And things should also start growing a bit quicker with the warmer weather! Although it also means spending time out there watering it all (which doesn't need to be done over winter - there's enough rain and it's cool enough).
ReplyDeleteYeah. There is nothing that grows over winter. It's too cold. There are some things though that you plant over winter & they come up early spring.
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