Jerusalem Artichokes - finally!

3kg ish of Jerusalem Artichokes

Well, the crop was certainly worth waiting for. Definitely my most successful vegetable so far. I added them to mashed potato (got away with it), made a kind of creamy bake to go with a roast (was ok) and made most of them into soup, which was edible.

Not high praise unfortunately, although I didn't experience any of the "after-effects", ahem, that Jerusalem artichokes are known for. I don't know whether to grow them again - it was lovely to have a crop that was so successful, but we really didn't love them...

End of September

Strawberries - repotted as their plot was horribly weedy and overgrown.

Jerusalem Artichokes!

End of July

Sweetcorn

Jerusalem Artichokes

French Beans (I think!)

Peas

Courgette

Peas at home. First time I've ever eaten them raw. SO delicious. 

End of June

Jerusalem Artichokes

Sweetcorn

Strawberries

Courgette

Peas

Covered with cardboard then manure

A wonderful 3 hours (luxury!)

I shouldn't have let the land cress flower.. bees love it though and adds some lovely colour to the plot.

Jerusalem artichokes going great guns!

Lettuces not doing too badly either.

Bottom half, trying no dig. Huge perpetual spinach plant in the middle, needs hacking back. That's Dad with the strimmer in the background :)

Freegle Offerings

Jerusalem artichokes on the left, lots of land cress, mustard and sweet cicely on the right. Thanks to a lovely Freegle lady who dug them all straight out of her garden for me!