Well, OH is the gardener really, while I like to sit in it and admire it (and offer OH helpful advice
).
We have a vegetable patch which is expanding into the lawn a little bit each year
, a small orchard of apple, pear and plum trees, a herb bed which always seems to be out of control and some chickens to supply manure (and eggs of course).
It seems that, as we had such a poor harvest of produce last year, the plants are producing double this year
. Yesterday was the first day since getting back from our holidays in early August that I haven't had runner beans with my meal.
Still have loads of courgettes...I discovered 6 biguns lurking under leaves yesterday! Courgette soup, courgette cake, steamed courgettes, baked courgettes, grilled courgettes...one (or more) of these have been on the menu every day since August and unlike the runner beans it looks like we won't be running out any time soon!
We've run out of space to store apples and we'll never manage to eat all the pears before they go off.
Plus everyone else we know seems to be overloaded with produce so we can't even give it away!!!
PS Courgette and chocolate cake topped with pears in the oven as I type!