Plot 36

…wash and quarter. Put in a pan and boil until they are reduced by 25%. Put through a food mill and store: freeze, can or bottle.

Preserving has commenced. So far I’ve managed: Strawberry Jam, Sage Elixir, Damson Gin and now passata. The large tomatoes, and I mean large, larger than cooking apples are now ready to be mushed and frozen. There will be more before the end of September, as long as there are enough sunny days to ripen the remaining fruit.

The smaller tomatoes are also plentiful and ripen easily even on the marginal days we’ve been having of late. There are also still raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, sweetcorn and aubergines. One of the tomato plants fell over under its own weight so I’ll turn the green tomatoes into chutney.

There’s also still lots growing: pumpkin and squashes, brassicas, carrots, beetroot, borlotti beans, all hanging in there. I’m hoping that the white dust on the squash leaves won’t harm the squashes…