Cucumber Soup

Having finally cleared the greenhouse of cucumbers had to decide what to do with them - distributed some to colleagues - but were still left with a fair number, and it isn't exactly salad weather.







In the end settled on cucumber and potato soup - which actually turned out really well.


Had pretty much decided to give up on growing cucumbers (we just weren't using them), but on the back of this, we may finally have found a tasty solution to the annual cucumber glut!

Salad Days

I think I was a little unfair to the 'cheap' cucumber plants - having thinned the greenhouse out they seem to have come into their own and are now turning out some rather impressive cucumbers!

We're also getting some tomatoes ripening, which is a relief . . .




I don't think we'll match last year's bounty, but between the green tomatoes we've been ripening indoors, and those in the greenhouse, we got a good pan-full, which equated to four pots of tomato sauce.