Rich Pickings?

I haven't really done well in the garden this year, rubbish weather and a lack of time as usual but the fruit has been good. The blueberries (American style ones) are sat in pots that are a bit too small for them now and have still produced a good few handfuls of healthy fruit. This is the first we have had and they are lovely.

They have not made their way into the kitchen, not much does, and I may not tell anyone about them. My dad ate loads of my peas, every time I looked he was out in the garden with a guilty expression on his face. No sooner had he gone home and the next lot were just looking good then my other half's mum was round and munched the rest.
At least pigeons you can shoot.

Some tomatoes are ready at last, they seem terrible slow this year. Most of the outdoor toms have died from blight, third year running. Last year the greenhouse toms showed signs of it and I sprayed them with the E.M. microbes, they recovered themselves straight away.

The cucumbers have been good. Only complaint is, who wants to eat cucumbers once the weather has gone cold? I had on two jumpers and my long johns today, and that was just for inside the house.

I have been making more of an effort lately to be a bit more self sufficient. I have not used the hoover in a couple of weeks, we don't have carpet here anyway except on the stairs so brushing is easy. Our only heating at the moment is the pot belly stove (hence all the jumpers), the central heating is not on yet, and all last winter it was on almost as low as it would go. Mind you, the bill was still high but I don't fancy leaving it off totally.

I was eating some of the weeds in the polytunnel as well!! Only the tasty ones.
I found some fat beech nuts the other day, ok for a nibble but I think that I would starve if I had to manage properly. Unless I could still have a sly nosey in the supermarket skips! sshhh!