Yeah, I know, it’s been ages. I do have an excuse though: in addition to growing things in the garden I’ve been growing a new human. And it’s quite exhausting. We’ve been told he’s a boy, and his expected arrival is in just under 3 months – 17 August.
The great irony of all this has been that for the last 6 months I haven’t had food cravings, I’ve had food aversions; and they’ve been aversions to things such as beautiful leafy greens from the garden, garlic, etc. Sigh. I’m told it should all sort itself out once he comes.
I’ve been ignoring our darling garden almost as much as this blog. We still get food out of it and of course have our monthly sessions with FiMBY, but as it gets more difficult to bend over I have less and less capacity to do much! But things still tick away – perhaps it would be neater and have fewer weeds if I was able to do more (and the compost pile would be turned and a new one made!), but really veggies will just grow not matter what.
At our FiMBY session on Saturday we took out the sweet corn from Big Yellow. There was a lot of ‘volunteer’ coriander in the bed as well (I think I spilled some out of my bag of seeds), our last cucumber, and a few of the last tomatoes. Add to that taking the baby leeks that weren’t thriving in big blue and a few cayenne chillies and it seemed obvious what we would be having for dinner that night: roasted sweet corn salsa with chicken and black bean quesadillas. Yum! Here’s some before and after photos of the ingredients:
That looks really good…