A workers' cooperative growing food on London's edge in the Lea Valley
Goodbye strawberries, hello blackcurrants! This is our first year of harvest for the blackcurrant plants. They are quite tart so would benefit from some sweetening. First remove the currants from any stalks, then in a pan with 1 …
Standard vegetable bags have new potatoes, bunched beetroot and radish (Essex), bunched carrots and fresh green onions (Norfolk B), broadbeans, Climbing French beans and lettuce (Chingford). No potato bags have kohlrabi (Essex). Large vegetable bags have larger portions of potatoes, …
So much to write about, so little time. The last three weeks have been hotter than a Bradford curry and as dry as Yorkshire wit, bringing everything on in lamb-leaps and shire horse bounds. The strawberries ripened too rapidly, shortening …
