It is vitamin C overload season here, which involves endlessly juicing our oranges. I am also storing the orange zest for the year ahead. We also have many naval oranges this year, which taste like luxury oranges to us - we are cherishing them.
We have enough chayote, potatoes, and root vegetables to sustain us for a few more months. Our freezer still has some farm meat, but we will soon need to halve our chicken flock to maintain our supplies.
The Chinese broccoli is also now ready to harvest, which we will be adding to our stir-frys weekly until the weather really heats up in July.
It has taken some time to learn which plants are suited to which gardens. There are some gardens which have an endless supply of slugs and snails, and some which seem to be untouched (the only reason I have broccoli this year). Putting a border of Ajuga around most of the home gardens seems to have worked wonders, although I cannot do this for the 'market gardens' in zone 2, which seem to be overrun by rabbits already. Hopefully customers this summer are not too fussy about having a few slug holes in their Rainbow Chard and Chinese Cabbage 😏 and maybe I will learn to live with the rabbits, or borrow my mothers Patterdale Terrier who would make quick work of the problem.
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