> I have never seen a beetroot! Here our beets are all bright red and > pickled. How do you cook a beetroot!
I have had instruction that they are best cooked in a pressure cooker. Pull off the tops and boil them after shaking off the dirt. Plunge into cold water and peal them. You can eat them hot with butter or cold with vinegar or mayonaise. Yes they are deep red. and are your peas what we call "english peas" that you > can only get here canned? Little green round balls?? Those are the ones. and are your beans like green beans in a can or > do you shell them. We shell the broad beans= fava. The other varieties french or runner we leave the shells on. Italian beans are grown too. Here ripe now is watermelon and cantalope, okra, peaches We have a melon race in our his and her's greenhouses. So far his is bigger than her's. We have one peach on the peach tree. > summer squash is just going out. We have courgettes and butternut squash. Artichokes globe and jerusalem. Just for fun I have grown some swiss chard amongst the flower bed and cardoons. The grandchildren love to see the veges growing and the giant sunflowers which we grow for the birds. We got our first chickens this week. I do love this life. Sue coombes
