Fruits of Our Labours

Having an allotment is great fun, but,at this time if year, it does have a kind of downside. Picture the scene; the sun is shining, the bees are busily buzzing, and you are harvesting your ripe produce: lettuce, radishes, courgettes, raspberries, beetroot, potatoes , peas, beans etc. Everything in the garden is lovely. Then, when you return home laden with your freshly picked bounty , the reality sets in. What are we going to do with all this food? You can't eat it all, you can't give it all away, you can't freeze some of it, therefore you have now got a lot of work to do to somehow preserve it from going 'off''. Blanching, jam making,pickling, bottling, preserving, chutneys, oils, vinegars the list of activities you didn't realise you were going to have to master when you first took on a plot. is almost endless. However, looking on the bright side, Plum has just found a recipe for Rumpot which involves no cooking just lots of alcohol. Sounds just like an activity I can relate to.