Here is August, a time when I finally see harvest in my small vegetable garden. Today I have picked up veggies for borscht (beetroot soup): these are 2 beets, 8 young potatoes, 2 carrots, celery and a few pods of peas.
I've planted potato for the first time and I'm glad having young potatoes for borsch, they aren't big but it's not necessary a lot.
Beetroot is also not big, it will continue growing until September, so now I've taken the 2 biggest ones.
Pea is excellent this summer, the pods are full of sweet peas. I'll tell you a secret: I bought a pack of dry pea in a supermarket and sowed it instead of to buy expensive colorful packets of pea seed in Garden center.
Last year I planted a big thick carrot and it gave me million of seeds, now I have carrots grown from my own seeds. So I do not need to buy carrot seed some years :D
I've noticed a very pretty zucchini on a bed near the green house, maybe I'll use it for my borsch too.
Red and blackcurrant berries were completely picked up and now wait for my 'sokovarka' (casserole with special arrangements for obtaining juice from fruit when heated over a fire). Then I'll make jam or jell from juice and sugar.
At the right below is blueberry, that grow in the woods and it was picked up 2 days ago. I want to freeze some and to make jam of the rest of berries. Blueberry jam needs more sugar than blackcurrant one. I love cooking the blueberry pie on winter holidays.
That's all for now; mushrooms, gooseberry, blackthorn and cucumbers are in a queue.
Do you have any crop in your garden now or later? What do you do of it?
Se ve todo muy bueno, me encantan las grosellas y arándanos para hacer mermeladas. Besitos.
ReplyDeleteSi, Teresa yo hago mermeladas de los frutos de mi jardin,y salen bastante sabrosos.
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I like to come to dinner! Lovely post. Groetjes Hetty
ReplyDeleteHetty, I do like too, when borsch is ready, I email you.
DeleteWe are getting very similar crops to yours. Much of the fruit is frozen to use throughout the year. Our blueberries are doing better this year but nothing like as good as the harvest you have managed to gather.
ReplyDeleteTo gather blueberry in the woods, Sue, is hard work because wild blueberry bushes are very low and my back doesn't like to often bend.
DeleteI've never had an opportunity to have borsch but the ingredients look delicious. All of your berries will bring a smile this winter. :-)
ReplyDeleteYou're right Judy, a cup of tea with berry jam in cold winter it's a treat!
DeleteNadezda Hello! Whether you have a juicy-looking vegetables! We have the potatoes are already a good size and tasty. Gooseberries and raspberries are ripe. Blueberries has been placed in the freezer. Chanterelles should go further to collect. Good weekend to you.
ReplyDeleteI love chanterelles as well, Anne. It's said they are the most clean mushrooms. I fry them and then eat or freeze.
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Vegetables from your garden are very smaczne.teraz finished doing apricot jam. Yesterday we did the juice of chokeberry. He has made blackcurrant juice and a lot of frozen tomatoes. Sugar snap peas also have frozen. I love your garden for the gifts of nature.
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Lucja
Lucja, I see you made a lot of job preparing to winter. Juice of chokeberry,blackcurrant, frozen tomatoes and peas... uh, you were very busy!
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Hello, YUM! Your veggies and berries all look delicious. Happy Thursday, enjoy your day!
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DeleteWhat beautiful crops Nadezda! I am glad to read you are a seed saver. I also save a lot of seeds. This year I discovered that the shallots from the store are much more productive and tasty than the ones you buy at nurseries or garden centres. I just picked all the black currant this week. The red currants have been over for a couple of weeks. I don't get as many as the black ones as the birds like them too much!
ReplyDeleteYes, Alain, I like saving my own seeds, because it's free and because I'm sure they are of the year I had written on a packet. I see you have a lot of currant berries, good crop!
DeleteYour potatoes look very good. In fact, all of the veggies are so fresh and colourful and you have them without going to the shops! I have not tried borscht. Is it eaten hot or cold? Luscious berries too.
ReplyDeleteI have grown tomatoes, beans and cucumbers in my very small garden. I need to start preparing to grow some for next summer.
Thank you for sharing with us these lovely photos of your produce.
Betty, I cook borsch using meat or chicken stock in winter to eat hot borsch. When weather is hot I make cold beet soup on veggie stock. As you're in winter now you could cook hot borsch :) the recipe is here:
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Have a nice day!
Thank you Nadezda. I like beetroot hot or cold. I will try the recipe.
DeleteLovely crop of vegetables and fruit. When I see your ingredients for the famous borscht I think I have to try this once it sounds delicious. Such a good idea to collect own seed from a carrot and use dried peas. I like that.
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Janneke
Yes Janneke, it's good idea and it's cheap. No doubt you have to try borsch but firstly in a restaurant and then cook it if you liked.
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Oh, I can taste and smell the blueberries from here! We can’t get these kind of blueberries over here, what they sell here is a very different kind of blueberries and I miss the ones you just go out and pick in the woods, just like we can do in Norway too – they taste a million times better than the big ones they sell in supermarkets over here! Your harvest is really good and varied – this year I am only growing tomatoes but next year there will be lots of strawberries and raspberries too.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, Helene. The berry that we, northern people, call 'blueberry' is that I showed on my photo and berries that are sold in supermarkets we call 'bog whortleberry'. Your tomatoes are pretty and they are ahead of mine :D
DeleteWhat a wonderful collection of veggies and berries. Gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI don’t have much time to go picking fruit in the garden, so the birds get most of it.
Maybe next year.
Have a lovely, or what’s left it.
Thank you Friko, maybe next year!
DeleteEverything looks lovely...and delicious! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you indeed Linda!
DeleteOh my goodness, Nadezda, your veggies and berries look beautiful and delicious! :)
ReplyDeleteWe pick wild blueberries, lingonberries and raspberries and we make juice of black currants using a "sokovarka", but we need to buy a new one, because the old one is of aluminium.
Thank you for the lovely photos. Have a great weekend!
I've bought my "sokovarka", Sara in Lahti some year back and it's of stainless steel, I'm very glad using it. Have a nice weekend!
DeleteEverything you show us looks so beautiful and healthy. Here in Georgia we do not get blackcurrant (one of my favorites) or red currants or gooseberries – maybe the weather is too warm. My mother used to have blackcurrant in her small yard and made jelly and liquor with it. Here, I have to buy imported blackcurrant jam, usually from Scotland, England or Poland. It must have rained here while we were in California because the flowers we planted in pots look still pretty good, but we do not have vegetable growing like you do. You have a great garden.
ReplyDeleteGood idea to make blackcurrant liquor, Vagabonde! It's great that your plants and flowers are healthy mean while Jim and you were in California. Have a nice next week!
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ReplyDeleteFotografias maravilhosas.
Legumes e frutas muito coloridos e naturais, com certeza muito saborosos!
Parabéns pela horta!
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Gracias, Ines, besos!
DeleteNadezda, I am not a veg grower but I sure can recognise what looks good. Had to google borsch, looks like its may be soup.
ReplyDeleteAlistair, you're right, borsch is beetroot soup that can be eaten hot or cold. I make it hot in winter.
DeleteAll the veg and fruit look so fresh and colourful, whatever you make will be super tasty with them :)
ReplyDeleteYes, they do Nezumi. Thank you!
DeleteI have lots of wild currants and elderberries, but I leave them for the birds.
ReplyDeleteI see Jason. I need these berries to make jam and eat in cold winter and I love birds as well, feeding them sunflower seeds.
DeleteI didn't realize that you had food crops as well as flowers! It's nice to have homemade soups and treats made from things you've grown. Interesting that you grew the peas from dried peas. I didn't realize you could do that.
ReplyDeleteYes, Jennifer, growing peas from supermarket pack of dry peas is very economic. You'll save a lot of money:)
DeleteVery health!!! Greetings! :))
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Thank you Basia!
DeleteSuch a bountiful and beautiful harvest! You are very smart to use dried peas and grow your own carrot seeds! Borsch is delicious.
ReplyDeletePeter, I've watched on TV's 'Garden on BBC' this idea, it's not my own 'discovering' :)
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Vegetables and fruits from your garden look great and I'm sure they taste delicious !!
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Yes, they do, Ela, thank you!
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