I'll give a brief comment about each item, started at top (12) and working clockwise:
- Cucumber. I don't like the taste. However noticed that if I grow a vegetable more likely to eat it because I loathe blood sweat and tears (ok over dramatic) going to waste. So I planted cucumber for the first time in years.... and found that I can [mostly] eat it.
- Cherry tomatoes. As previously mentioned on this blog cherry tomatoes have higher nutrient density than ordinary tomatoes as they have more sunlight per unit volume. This year I planted red, yellow and purple cherry tomatoes to get the range of colors
- Radish. This is a heirloom variety that is purple instead of red. You can purchase (and we have done a few times this summer) red radishes in supermarket so try and grow colors you can't purchase
- Salad greens. I wasn't going to plant any lettuce because my rational was, lets purchase lettuce from supermarket and I will provide the color/extras. However we were not purchasing/eating many salads cause lettuces were expensive due to the drought and we were not in the habit of purchasing lettuces. Therefore I planted more lettuces and it was a good move. Salad also contains beetroot leaves, mustard greens, cress and new growth of rainbow beets
- Maori potatoes. These are purple all the way through, so we actually get nutrients with our potatoes! I have tired growing these for two years. Not had much success. These need a long growing season and I'm not that good at it. However I have since discovered that a "normal" potato (ie round and easier to grow) that is purple has been developed by Crop and Food (?) recently. I saw the seed purple potato "seeds" for sale in Hamilton this year and will make a move to this next year. Generally speaking we don't often have potato as we don't need the starch, but it is a comfort food for us....
- NZ free range lamb (which all our lamb is).
PS Yes it is a star plate! Tiffany was having it as she had just completed a weeks work.
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