Pizza harvest

Authored August 28, 2023

I don't have a huge amount coming out of the allotment due to a number of issues. Still, I've been able to keep cooking with home grown ingredients multiple times per week.

For example, when my sister and her partner visited earlier this August I rustled up a pizza with these allotment ingredients.

My chopping board featuring the bright oranges and purples of calendula and tree spinach. Along with the greens of courgette, kale, and basil. — Calendula, tree spinach, courgette, kale, and basil.

Two unctuous, clearly homemade pizzas with tomato base, melted mozzarella, and cooked down allotment vegetables. Dressed with flowers and basil. — Homemade sourdough pizza.

Sadly the tomato base wasn't my own as my plants have all been hugely hit by blight, a fungus infection. I don't think the warm and very wet weather recently has helped. It's gutting because, after a tricky start, they were brimming with huge green fruits that will never ripen now. They'll mostly rot on a withered stem.

Big, pretty, green tomatoes hang from a dead vine. — A dying tomato plant, hit by blight.

I'll save a few tomatoes though! I turned my back for a second and now I have rocket and cucumbers to go with. The cucumbers taste great too, not at all bitter.