And while we were gone...

...the veges kept growing.

Thanks to Mum and Dad R and their kind donation of several bags of their home made compost, my vege garden is growing fantastically well. I am picking cherry tomatoes every day, lettuce, spring onions and celery whenever we need them, and the courgettes started producing well around a couple of weeks ago.

So when we came home, I fully expected to see loads of red cherry tomatoes waiting to be picked, which I did. No surprises there.

I also expected to see at least 2 courgettes ready to pick. I was very surprised to see that in fact there were none that were ready. How odd. A bit later, I find that Daryl had already snuck out to my garden and picked them, intending to dispose of them without me knowing! For those of you that don't already know, Daryl is only barely tolerant of courgettes, much to the amusement of the kids who all love them, and revel in enforcing the one bite rule.

So, after confiscating the aforementioned courgettes from him before he could dispose of them, here is our harvest.

The round yellow vegetables are scalloppini which are a type of courgette... but alas no more palatable to Daryl than the classic long green ones.



I am now in need of some ideas of what to do with some slightly oversized yellow scalloppini. Any bright ideas anyone?
The ones on the left are the size we would normally use... quartered and stir fried or bar-be-qued. Some of these got a bit carried away.
Daryl has suggested a fine julienne, mixed into the compost bin. I wonder if he has thought how many more plants may result from that?