Even after Darrell’s latest sad observations of the other day re: Nigel’s raised garden bed outside the Europa Supermarket, the little fella still hasn’t given up on it and can’t help checking on it every time he passes on the way up to and way back from the school run.
He’s even researched what is left and it seems the Love Lies Bleeding though ok at the moment, will probably not survive the first frosts, as too the nasturtiums.
However, it really is the patch that keeps giving, notwithstanding it’s rather precarious position ……..
….. as Nigel now also thinks he has also managed to identify some small shoots of Swiss Chard …….. a vegetable we are sadly strangers too, despite our rigorous five a day regime.
BUT, yesterday, hidden under all the non descript vegetation Nigel only discovered a few tiny, struggling against all odds, tomatoes, which he was careful to cover up again as he left, lest nefarious eyes gaze upon them!
How long they will last, goodness only knows, especially going by the past few weeks, but Nigel is, as ever, hopeful. He’s going to give them a little longer and then if they do get the opportunity to ripen, he’s going to claim what there is, as his own, for Darrell to work his magic upon them, even if it’s just in a cheese and tomato sandwich! What is he like?
2 comments:
Good luck, Nigel! (Do tomatoes still ripen in mid November?)
As part of my strict fifteen a day, I eat chard almost daily - Mexican chard, not Swiss. Here it is called acelga.
You could always make green tomato chutney!
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/green-tomato-chutney
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