July Harvest Monday

Summer is in full swing and the vegetable garden is beginning to reward us with some home grown produce.  

But these cherries are not from the garden, these were bestowed to us by our neighbour who harvested them from a a friends garden. 

Raspberries are beginning to ripen too, enough for a bowl with some yogurt or scattered ove home made waffles with maple syrup. 

Soon we will have blueberries. 

Cooking apples and pears growing well too.  It's the first time our apple tree has been laden.  But our plum tree is disappointing this year (no photographs). 

We have artichokes, but i have not harvested them.  Letting them bloom for the bees. 

These are dwarf green beans. You would not think so, looking at the length of them. 

Although we have some beetroot growing, ours are not ready yet.  These came from our neighbour who sowed his seeds early in the year.  We've already roasted them and stirred them into a potato salad.

This little yellow cucumber also came from our neighbour.

We were not organised this year with sowing seeds and growing plants from scratch this year. Our neighbour has been very kind and gave us a lot of tomato plants.  Names of which i do not know, like these black tomatoes.   

These little tomatoes were plants we picked up from a garden centre. I am sharing this blog post with Dave over at Happy Acres who hosts Harvest Monday.  It's always nice to see what's happening in other vegetable growers garden around different parts of the world. 

Wolverhampton and Yet Another Banana Bread

I started writing this blog post on the 24 January 2022. 

It was going to be about our long early drive and day trip to Wolverhampton, England.  

But then shortly after, I was off sick from work.  It was not Covid, but whatever it was it struck me down.  

So much else has happened in between.  

I have missed some blogging friends and loyal readers.  So I just had to come by and say Hello - i am still here.   Thank you for your kind messages. 

This is just a short post, to share some snaps from our day trip in Wolverhampton. 

Also in an attempt to start blogging again, partly motivated by wanting to share some photographs from day trips and visits to places combined with some homemade eats.  I'm slowly dipping my virtual feet back in this space. 

Brimful of Asha by Cornershop is one of my favourite songs. The band Cornershop formed in Wolverhampton in 1991. 

Yet another Banana Bread!  

The topping was lovely, especially the way the sliced bananas caramelised on top, but i was not keen on the recipe.  I think the addition of lemon in the mix did not quite please me.