Harvesting

Now we are nearby finished harvesting. Pears, plums, apples, blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, elderberries, rowan berries, ... it's hard to keep harvesting and processing in time.

Every morning I enter the garden and pick some fallen fruit to make a fresh juice.  Now I am in the pears and apples. I even started to use the fruit remains separated from the juice by the juicer, to make pancakes.

Just take a big handful of the remains put 2 or 3 towered spoons of flower and 1 or 2 eggs (depending how soft you want to have it). I take a spoon full of "dough" and drop it at the side of the pan. As it is quite consistent, I use the spoon to smear it open into a small pancake. When they are baked at one side, I turn them around and push them even a little bit flatter to have 2 nice sides. It taste wonderful, a pancake with a touch of apple and pear.

Our vegetable garden changed in a lush flowerbed.

Also the vegetable garden has given his full load now. Carrots, beans, several different coals, parsley, and of course very Swedish the dill, ... all this wealth let us feel happy to have this wonderful place.

A big cauliflower (blomkol - bloemkool) still hidden but eaten soon.

The only white cabbage (vitkål - witte kool) not full of holes caused by the snails.

Kale (grönkål - krulkool) surrounded by high growing marigolds.

 Even harvesting zucchinis (squash - courgette) is trying to empty the ocean with a thimble. They give far more fruit than we can eat.

Two 3 kg heavy zucchinis waiting for harvesting.

Our little tiny yellow zucchinis

The salad Carin has seeded, is fully grown.

The salad turned out to be soft tasty.

Yesterday evening we ate homemade sandwiches with cheese and ham, richly covered with salad or for the warm sandwiches with parsley under the melted cheese. Carin even had put freshly picked grape on top of it. A few days ago the East Indian Cherry was the coloured appetizer.

It is wonderful to  have al this good things straight from the garden on the table. Although the children do not like so much to eat vegetables Carin and I enjoy every little bite we take.

And to end, you can imagine our newly bought freezer is already quite full.