Still Picking

Maybe we have learned. It's mid-February and yesterday's main meal included four of our own veg - massive parsnips made into mash with bought spuds; a load of leeks steamed and then whizzed with butter to make a puree; red and green sprouts; and the first PSB of the season. If growing your own is part of the austerity thing - and it should be if you have any land, an allotment, or even a window box - it is also a wonderful way to get really fresh stuff into the kitchen. Top of the head guess for the cost of those veg if purchased from the supermarket, say about £7. The seeds (discounted for allotment association) must have cost about £4 in total, but those veg picked on Saturday were a tiny tiny fraction of what the packets have yielded and continue to yield.

Not sure if it's dig for victory, but maybe for survival.