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Before and After of my allotment plot |
When people tell you there is nothing quite like growing your own and eating it, you don't believe them until you do it. In weather like this food is never top of my agenda and I tend to stick to salads, mostly made from ingredients I have grown - lettuce, cucumber, tomato, spring onion, onion, radish and sometimes a bit of potato to add to the texture, which you can see below. You can grow all of this from a smile growing kit that you can buy from places like Amazon, my own favourite being this . Then it is from kits like this or from seeds you can end up with a whole host of different foods such as these which I picked over the weekend,
I also love beetroot, it has been one of my favourite foods for years and it is one of the easiest things to grow. Every year I pickle and preserve them in jars and then as and when I need them, eat them or for the first time ever I made a beetroot cake and it looks like this:
Tomatoes are also easy to grow and there is nothing more wonderful than making your own tomato soup as shown below, one simple bag of tomatoes and one bowl of soup later, the rest of which is frozen.
I think everyone should have a go at growing their own, whether it is on a windowsill in your home, to a mini greenhouse, vegetable patch in your garden, a greenhouse if you have space and like me on an allotment if you are lucky enough.
Do you or have you ever grown your own? Is it something you would ever try and do?
oh wow, I'd love to grow my own fruit and veg! I live in a flat and have no outside space which I hate and sadly don't have any allotments that I could easily get to without a car either. When I eventually move into a house am definitely going to have a little growing patch though! :) So impressed with what you've grown, looks amazing xx
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I used to grow my own fruit and vegetables when I was younger. What pleasure my heard work brought. Your photographs make my mouth water. There's nothing like the taste of home-grown tomatoes. Visitng from UBC. http://475035832790540880.weebly.com/blog.html
ReplyDeleteWao!! All of them look wonderful. And the cake juts looks yum, cant believe that its a beetroot cake!!
ReplyDeleteWish I had some space to grow, but i stay only in two rooms!!
I have to say that the only decent place for beetroot is in a cake. I can't stand them! My husband loves them so I do grow them and despite the fact that I ignore them as much as possible they do remarkably well!
ReplyDeleteSo jealous of all of this food! My dad used to grow his own veg and it always tasted so much nicer, the potatoes were my favourite, you cannot beat them!
ReplyDeleteWe grow strawberries at the moment and it is so satisfying walking down to the garden to pick a few to eat! I always end up killing things so my husband really needs to look after things that we grow, I keep trying to encourage him to grow potatoes.
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Your veg looks amazing!!! Hayley
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Whoa you've grown such a lot of lovely veggies! I have a large garden and have tried cherry tomatoes, though they came out looking pea-sized than cherry-tomato-sized. Also have squash, moringa and aubergine x
ReplyDeleteThis looks so awesome! :) x
ReplyDeletethis is amazing!
ReplyDeleteI would totally love to do this some day. Might be a thing me and the boyfriend can do together when we move in with each other :) xo
Your allotment looks wonderful! I've got a little plot which I mentioned today too! Love growing my own x
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ReplyDeleteAh wow this looks amazing! I love this way of living I would love to have an allotment or have a garden to grown things in! Some Day! :) x
ReplyDeleteAw it looks like such a great little place!
ReplyDeleteWe have an apple tree and peach tree and some berry bushes as well. Other than that we used to have our own potatoes!
But home grown food is just the best food :D
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Yummy! Xxx
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