Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Gathering and harvesting (but no hunting)


Fall is harvest time. This year rain was sorrily lacking and my plants looked rather skinny, despite my rinse water collections. But I still could harvest a good number of tomatoes, beans, carrots and potatoes.

And what pleasant surprise: we had never paid much attention to a bushy tree in the corner of our garden. This year it grew plenty of plums and we picked 8 kg of them.

But not only our garden provided us with food, we also found plenty of mushrooms, blue- and blackberries (although I had to discover that the sweetest of the blackberries were also most likely to host unwanted inhabitants).


Garden yield

Forest goodness - King boletes and some other mushrooms