Hello!! How is everyone doing?? Lovely summery day today here in Tasmania!
Time to get back into my garden and do something useful!
I had those self seeded tomatoes in their pots growing away happily. I think they may be cherry tomatoes. Anyway, seemed a shame to not do anything with them so I thought I might clear out the ex-garlic plot and chuck them in
Thinking upon the advice about the bees from yesterday, I figured I could pull up the carrot plot, save a few seed heads and leave the bees to play on some of my other flowers
And I am pleased to report that my ‘Lazy Gardening Technique’ works well. I am getting food from the random potato plants that have popped up that I didn’t bother pulling out.
That’s given the rhubarb and celery some breathing space!
Back to the tomatoes…
They are used to being outside, but a bit of wind-support around here never goes astray!
That’s 27 new plants!! It is a bit late, but whats the worst that can happen?? Fingers crossed there is enough time left in the season to get a bit of fruit off these!
In other news – the pesto was great! I was really happy with how it turned out. Last night I cooked up some fettuccine, stirred the pesto through and topped with Parmesan. Too busy eating to take a photo. 🙂
Tonight I used the pesto again, but in a different way. Please forgive the very much not magazine images of my dinner prep –
I got some chicken thigh fillets and topped with the pesto (I never use breast as I can’t seem to cook it right for most of the ways I use chicken – we prefer the thigh)
I rolled them up in bacon and skewered them to hold. They went into the oven.
Meanwhile I made up a tomato-zucchini sauce thingy to pour over the top of the new potatoes that I steamed.
Totally nothing fancy – just garlic & onion fried, then added the zucchini & tomatoes. (Couple of spoons of sugar because Ruby said so) salt and fresh herbs. Let that simmer away while everything else was cooking.
Dinner was appallingly late because we didn’t get inside until after 7.30pm!! Summer is like that here!
Hope you all had a lovely day!
Cheers
Your meal looks yummy! Late meals always happen in the summer around here too. It’s easy to lose track of time puttering around outside.
Thanks Pam! It always comes as a shock to hear the time when the sun still seems high in the sky!
Your garden looks lush and yummy! Your meal does too. Pesto chicken sounds delightful. You seem to cook a lot like me. I use whatever I have on hand to come up with something great. Well, mine is not always great but filling, always filling.
lol – I bet its mostly great!! Eating what is on hand just seems to make sense. Fiddly special recipes often have ingredients that you have to buy a big packet of something for then never use again! I am getting better at just ‘chucking stuff in the pot’ and having it come out edible!
Lisa, found your rhubarb pic to be interesting. Rhubarb is a late spring harvest. Around here, the rhubarb harvest has long gone before we get any tomatoes of any size to photo!
Love, love rhubarb. Have three mounds and two in pots that I haven’t gotten into the ground yet. Need to have someone dig the holes for me. To survive the winter here in Upstate NY, put sturdy cardboard boxes around the pots, shoved newspaper between pot and box and on top and hoped for either a mild winter or lots of snow cover. Will see if successful later this spring as its still too early to poke around in garden.
Thats interesting re the rhubarb timing. I have never grown it before, but seems other people have theirs at the same stage as mine. So you have to create a little winter shelter for them!! I actually thought I had killed mine – neglect and winter (not that we get snow) but clearly they have bounced back.
What do you cook with yours? I actually am rather clueless where to start, but I am sure I will have a go at making something with them. Maureen made one suggestion of rhubarb and raspberry jam. Sounds like a nice mix!