But they are here, THE BERRIES!
Free food, right in the neighbourhood and nobody else seems to want them.
So...gotta do something about it, I say. And I will.
Here they are, the beauties! Viens voir Maman!
In about one hour, and with minimal amount of scratches, I had managed to pick almost two litres of berries. Not bad at all. I do enjoy getting food from the wild (It's in the Finnish dna; one must wander into the forest/field/lakeside as often as possible, and bring back something one can eat), especially so close at home.
And to think that at the local marché they cost at least 15 euros/kilo! Or more. I should actually sell them! But to be honest, they're more likely to vanish into couple of little mouths, before I get any further with my lucrative business idea. Maybe next year.
So I made yet another bramble pie, this time for visiting family. Mon Cheri complains that there is a certain lack of pies in our own household, so I should perhaps go pick more berries tout de suite and remedy the situation...
To appease him, I made some courgette (our own, of course!) soup which turned out delicious and should give me few extra days before the question of pies rises again.
The things in the garden are decidedly slowing down, except the melon which has gone a bit crazy. We got two melons out of it (which took three months!) and I thought, that's it, c'est fini. But no, now it is full of flowers and lots of new little melon buds, all ready to rock. I'm just afraid it might be a bit too late for this sort of enthusiasm but I will let it do its thing, we'll see what happens. I'm all for supporting a trier, no matter how futile.
That's the one I'm talking about, when it still had the first melons growing.
Gardening for the first time in this country has been very interesting and instructive. It has been fun as well and of course the best part is to harvest your own veggies and cook delicious dinners out of them.
So far we have harvested about 32 kilos of tomatoes, 17 kilos of courgettes, several salads, some haricot beans and couple of melons. Still more tomatoes to come, as well as bell peppers (and melons, if they have the time).
About a week ago our haricot beans started to look like they were at death's door. And since they were already plagued by some illness or nutritional deficiency, not sure what, I decided to call it a day and stopped watering them. Then just couple of days ago they were full of little beans again, so I had resume the watering. It seems the melons are not the only ones getting a second wave.
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