About Jam Time Again!

After some dodgy weather last week, we had a great day's harvesting today. It was perfect sunny weather with a light breeze. Just as well, since we welcomed some local folk to come and make bread and jam with us from scratch, and doing that in a gale isn't so much fun!

We also got on with harvesting lots of yummy stuff, and some weird things too. Every year, the tomatoes surprise us, and this year we seem to have a few alien spaceships arriving on site...

The aliens have landed...

One of the harvests was potatoes that we grew in tyres. The long dry spells make it difficult to keep these moist enough, because the leaves tend to deflect the rain when they are grown in a tub. Desiree potatoes seem to work best for this, certainly they don't wilt like other varieties, and as Chris found, they produced a decent crop.

Chris with his Desiree.

We're pleased to report that the clay oven behaved beautifully, and that the bread tasted great with the freshly-made plum jam.

Birgitte enjoys the fruits and bread of her labour

It was also great to see Mac, who visited for some ideas for setting up a community allotment, and did a great job helping out. Hope to see you all again soon.

Some of today's harvest