
2nd July
The over winter onions were not planned, someone gave them to us late in the season so I put them in the ground to see what would happen. They had died back so we pulled them up to get a number of reasonable sized onions which made it all worth while. We also dug up half of the potatoes, dried them off and put them in a large potato sack under the stairs. We plan to do the other half next week. We are still pleased with the potatoes.
There has been a lot of fruit, the netting over the bushes have helped a lot against birds, last year we had next to nothing while this year we have loads. I really thought we had seen the best of the strawberries last week, but this week we got even more. I thought I would eat the one or two blackcurrants only to fund loads of them and 20 minutes later I had picked enough to hopefully make jam. I then braved the gooseberries, picking what I could until the scratches on my arm were too much.
I won’t forget the beetroot and the turnips, we roasted those. Then I noticed the rhubarb had suddenly all grown back a lot, we added what we could to the freezer.
B/F £40.23 | ||
IN | OUT | |
Chilies | £0.65 | |
Strawberries – 1.287kg | £6.44 | |
Potatoes (Charlotte) – 3.12kg | £3.12 | |
Broad Beans – 51g | £0.22 | |
Chard – 209g | £1.57 | |
Rhubarb – 229g | £1.43 | |
Raspberries – 67g | £0.77 | |
Turnips – 7g | £0.02 | |
Gooseberry – 300g | £2.00 | |
Beetroot – 189g | £0.63 | |
Blackcurrant – 515g | £6.87 | |
Onions – 896g | £0.88 | |
£24.60 | ||
WEEK TOTAL £24.60 | ||
RUNNING 2019 TOTAL £63.87 |

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