After an early morning start, we headed down to the allotment for a burst of harvesting, weeding and watering.  This done, Lynn set off to the golf course and I cleaned the various vegetables that we had harvested, and salvaged what I could from the onions that had suffered “white rot”.  In fact although they will be no good for keeping, we have plenty of onion to use over the next few days, so I cracked on with roasting some vegetables for salads and pizza – this included the first carrots of the season from the garden.

I prepared gherkins for pickling and am trying two different approaches – one with whole vegetables and one with sliced.  I think that we have discovered that pickled gherkins for Boxing day is not a very challenging target.  A more serious challenge is what do you do with all the Gherkins that three plants produce?