Oh my.... >I have never seen a beetroot! Here our beets are all bright red and >pickled. How do you cook a beetroot!
Fresh beets are like rutabaga (which we call swede) but smaller and softer, dark purple/black in colour. You boil them, then peel them and eat them fresh, or pickle them. The little ones we call baby beets, but we tend to let them grow to about orange size. Is it like a turnip or a >rutabega?? and are your peas what we call "english peas" that you >can only get here canned? Little green round balls?? Yes, that's the ones. Sweet and crispy when fresh, not at all like the canned ones. We mostly eat them raw in salads as they are not that different from frozen ones when you cook them. The pods and shoots are lovely too. I wonder why >they don't grow here. and are your beans like green beans in a can or >do you shell them. We grow French beans, which are like your canned green beans, runner beans, which you eat the whole pod sliced up while the beans inside are immature (the beans are pink and black!) and broad beans which are podded and sort of greyish green. >are shelled. Here ripe now is watermelon and cantalope, okra, peaches >(best are from Chilton Co. Alabama NOT Georgia)tomatoes and yellow >summer squash is just going out. Our squash doesn't come in until mid to late August, also courgettes (zucchini) and marrows (sort of huge zucchini). They do grow some sorts of melon and a few peaches in the south of england, but not commecially. We also grow rhubarb, broccoli, red cabbage, savoy cabbage, apples, pears and cherries. Best of all are the blackberries in September, lush, juicy, sweet and free everywhere in the hedgerows. Perfect with homegrown apples. Mic Mic (Michelle) Rushen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Solva Icelandic Horses and DeMeulenkamp Sweet Itch Rugs: www.solva-icelandics.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
