26 Dec - Christmas Holidays

One of the things I've never been great at is having food from the plot at mid-Winter. This year I've made a bit more of an effort to get a few things for the family Christmas lunch. The obvious was the Brussels Sprouts - a good crop of Trafalgar F1 which I've been picking since October.

Then it was time to dig up another parsnip or two. These went rather well and I was very pleased indeed with the Gladiator F1 - these are the largest parsnips I've ever grown using the 'bar' method (see earlier posts).

I also cut a lovely Savoy cabbage, Ormskirk, not of great size but plenty for us. I love Savoy in the Winter with its crinkly leaves, this cabbage is a great mid-Winter vegetable. Along with a leek, a nice little collection from the plot.

Of course, I still have plenty of other vegetables in storage too like Butternut and Winter squash, onions and frozen carrots. The chickens are still laying a few eggs a week despite the dark days so we had enough for pastries and Yorkshire puddings. I even cracked open a few bottles of my wine (only 90 bottles left now *sniff*), a bottle of Rhubarb and a lovely fruity hedgerow red containing blackberries, elderberries and plums.

That's it for me, here's wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a fruitful New Year on the plot.