Jam Anyone?

I've been away for 3 very long days this week - so no blog update as there really isn't anything interesting about working and staying away from home.

Tonight I couldn't wait to get to the Lottie and check on my newly planted greenhouse,  I didn't know how it would have coped with me being away and not here to water it for 3 whole days!  I needn't have worried as everything was perfectly Ok and not dried to a crisp.

Then it was onto a bit of harvesting,  Mr Milly had put in an order for some onions as we have none at home,  then I pulled out a few weeds from the salad bed and noticed that some of the radishes were getting big,  too big infact as they were like ping pong balls....  I can confirm they were very tasty, but extremely HOT!!

I turned by attention to the strawberry bed next....  as soon as I walked up the plot I could see lots and lots of red berries.  I found a reasonable size plant pot and started picking,  very quickly I filled that pot, found another - filled that one and then had to search high a low for a 3rd pot.   I was delighted,  I was beginning to think that the strawberries were going to ripen in dribs and drabs and I would never had enough to make any jam.   I couldn't wait to get home and weigh them,  put into a bowl there seem masses of them and the scales confirmed it 3.5 pounds of strawberries!!  How brilliant is that!?

Right now the strawberries are sitting in a pan,  jam jars and in the oven and very shortly I will be making my first batch of jam for this year - fingers crossed it works out OK!

Alison x