A weeks break from deliveries

27/04/2020

We took last Friday off from doing deliveries to recharge our batteries a wee bit. Yes well that was the theory. Funny there are still all the jobs that need doing and we got heaps done. Steve finished the bubbler he has been building to wash the fruit and veges in - we gave it a test run on the crab apples I harvested. It saved me so much time in washing the fruit. So of course with fruit washed it was time to make crab apple jelly YUMM. Plain crab apple, crab apple with red currents and crab apple with thyme plus of course chilli versions of each. The red current & crab apple would be amazing with chicken.

Steve has also done a some re-fencing and more prep of gardens to tarp for winter.

All the fully mature pumpkins are in and the last of the spaghetti squash. I cleaned off the bed where the spaghetti squash grew this year and have started making the mound that will compost down for them to grow in next season. I can see yams forming on the plants so first frost and they will be ready to harvest.

I had to lift a piece of yacon that had strayed from its bed and the tubers are forming quite nicely under it -still about a month off harvest time though.

We still get 4-5 saffron flowers each day so are slowly adding to the container of dried saffron threads for this season.

Carolina Reaper Chillies and Ghost Chillies are still in full production so have got Black Boy Peaches and Plums out of the freezer for a new batch of Silent Assassin Sauce (AKA Geff’s Favourite) this sauce is powered by Carolina Reapers and just so rich and hot and yumm - last year 70 bottles of this sauce sold out in about 6 weeks.

Looking forward to Level 3 tomorrow so we can start filling orders from the web site again.