| | Share | | | Forward | | By hello@growdigital.org (Jake Rayson) on Oct 27, 2019 01:13 pm | I’m in transition to perennial vegetables but whatever the crop, it is easy to be overwhelmed by vegetables! | First off, here’s my simple, pot-bound, bung-it-in-together tomato purée recipe. TL;DR don’t fret, chuck it in a pot. | I’ve been thinking about perennial vegetables a great deal, and I am finally getting round to creating some perennial veg beds in the orchard part of the forest garden. Trouble is, I never really grew many annual vegetables before creating a forest garden, and it’s actually really involved and time-consuming, particularly if you don’t know where to start. | Harvest time, paradoxically, can be the most overwhelming time. Rather than being gloriously thankful for bumper crops, you’re thinking “what the heck am I going to do with all this produce?”. That is when the veg anxiety kicks in. | My way of dealing with this has been to concentrate on one vegetable at a time. Tomatoes are good now, and this year has been the year of the aubergine for me (a good compost mulch plus regular watering is my tip). | On the harvest front, I have been simplifying my recipes and bunging stuff in a pot! In our first year here, I was roasting tomatoes before puréeing them. They tasted glorious but took an age. Now, I put everything in a pot (see my tomato purée recipe). | Today, I thought, why not green tomato purée? So, this is where I’m going. Fingers crossed & no big worry if it doesn’t work, as no experiment fails 🙂 | Read in browser » | | | Recent Articles: | Overview of my forest garden design process | Bruce Slark Forest Garden Talk | More or less politics | Wildlife: the power of a name | Pivot | | | |
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