After returning from our recent trips away there were some interesting crops to collect from the garden.
If there is something in the garden more beautiful than cream coloured borlotti beans, speckled with scarlet, in their scarlet pods speckled with cream, then I have yet to find it.
Then there is the collection of crazy green tomatoes.
I didn’t buy a single tomato plant this year, but I was given some by my next door neighbour, collected some from a table outside another neighbours house labelled ‘Free tomato plants – please take some’ and was given another couple of plants by a friend a little further down the road.
Tomatoes seem to be a neighbourly affair.
So I have gathered this motley collection of stripy, plum and cherry tomatoes. All of which have steadfastly remained green due to my lack of greenhouse.*
As soon as the boy is back at school there will be more things made from other things.
There will be green tomato chutney.
There will be borlotti beans slow cooked in olive oil and sage.
There will also be more yellow courgette soup and endless runner beans.
All recipe suggestions welcome…
But first there will be name tags sewn in school shirts and PE kits stuffed into school bags.
Probably.
*Hint to Ed – Greenhouse needed for Harvest 2011
Nip it in the bud
September 6, 2010
beautiful indeed. My allotment neighbours always grow Borlotti beans and I was so taken with them that I carefully dried out some pods to save the seeds. Did I remember to sow them? Ooops no but it was worth it just for the gorgeous feel of their silky beans between my fingers as I removed them from their rattly pod to store.
thingswemake
September 6, 2010
You must sow some next year! They look fab, although I have yet to taste them. Will be cooking some soon. Love your blog!
Elizabeth
September 7, 2010
Beautiful produce!
I have no greenhouse either and my tomatoes are turning colours now. Are they maybe just green tomatoes?
thingswemake
September 7, 2010
I did wonder that, but today I walked past the house where I got the free plants and now the lady has a table with runner beans and tomatoes for sale (proceeds to Pakistan floods) and her stripy and cherry tomatoes are beautiful and red! Of course I ‘bought’ some. Hope they taste as good as they look. Some of the small ones are reddening up a bit. I kinda like the idea of chutney though!
Lisa Mattson
September 8, 2010
Love those red beans!
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PRINTforLOVEofWOOD
September 9, 2010
My dad grows tonnes of tomatoes, always end up with lots going spare and I once saw a program were they skinned and partially cooked them for freezing which is a great idea for winter soups and pasta dishes, but for the life of me I can’t remember the instructions!