Soapnutter
|
For dinner tonight....
A few red/purple carrots (Dragon), small but the rest can carry on growing a bit, a few very very tiny orange carrots (chantenay) a pile of spuds (kestrel I think - some for tonight and some for tomorrow) then at the end there's a heap of dill, some to just eat and some to dry if I can.
Any tips on drying dill?
Oh and there were a handful of peas but we seem to have eaten them. 
The purple carrots are the first carrots I've ever grown successfully here and that's thanks to the loo roll tip! The loo roll inners are all but gone and the carrots are just WONDERFUL!
|
judith
|
Cool carrots. 
If you can, I would recommend freezing dill, rather than drying. Just snip it up with a pair of scissors first.
|
Pilsbury
|
and pack it into ice cube trays then add a drop of water to freeze into blocks.
|
gil
|
Those all look really good. The dill is positively resplendent.
|
Soapnutter
|
Oooh, I never thought of freezing it in ice cubes, that'd work nicely. Thanks!
|
Jamanda
|
Does dill die back completely in the winter? What about fennel?
I love those red carrots BTW.
|
Soapnutter
|
My dill always dies, I'd assumed it was an annual and just sow more. The carrots are more purple with a vivid orange inside (I'll take pics of them cut next time I pull some) and it stays that way after cooking! They taste lovely too and the resident guinea pigs are making compost for me with the tops.
|
