Not the picture of pigs' ears but rather nasty weather has enabled better photographs to become available finally - could normal service be being resumed? But then what is normal?
We have now picked the 9 fruits that we let mature on the young medlar tree, partly as all the leaves fell off and it looked rather odd. We have the fruits bletting now in the entrance hall in an egg box, and one would appear to be right for eating - well it is mushy anyway, so later on I will find a sliver of Wensleydale and try it out. However, as you can see, before the leaves fell off, it looked rather splendid.
As we are now at the middle of November, I thought it was about time to put away the more delicate potted trees and plants - two olive trees (neither very large), an agave (again very small) and a prickly pear. They spend the winter in the unheated greenhouse, along with the brugmantia and the lemon tree and a pot of avocado saplings. While I am not too worried about the cold for the olives, I am concerned at them getting water-logged, which is what they really hate. This year I got one full sized and ripe olive - not enough to bother with either making oil or curing to eat I fear!
And finally sorting through the 400 odd photos on the camera, I came across this lovely picture of the two types of chillis we had growing this year - the smaller ones are hot, while the large ones are totally mild but add a lovely rich flavour to chillis and stews. Previously I have grown Cayenne chillis which are very hot, but don't do much on flavour so this year has been quite a change. I picked the last mild chillis yesterday - they are still green but should turn red in the kitchen over the next few weeks.
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