My first harvest (il mio primo raccolto)

Yes... Ok, mybe I need a few more attemps in mastering the secret of growing beautiful vegetables... although it looked very tiny my tomato actually tasted delicious, shame it wasn't more of it!! We had a bit of ceremony when I pick it, we placed it at the centre of our best plate, cut it in half, spincle salt and pepper over the two halves... (literally two granes of it) and then place the small sacculent red vegetable in our mouth.. and the all experience was over in 10000 of a second!!! The sweat and tears were all worthy if you ask me... The same with my crougette.. The dream of a "risotto agli zucchini" with the product of my own garden had quickly faded when after almost a month my crougette had hardly become over 2 inches (approx 5 cm)... we had one of it tonight, raw as we reckoned that boiling it would have probably shrinking it even more... it was ... well.. interesting!!! I bet you have never seen a yellow craugette, at least my mother has not and this picture is the proof that they exist!!!!!

This half failure (I keep telling myself that this summer the weather has been terrible for veg, no sun and heat... etc... but the truth is that I still feel guilty that a few times I have actually forgottten to water or feed the poor plants) has given me even more ambition to persue this again next year!!!! Will post the pictures then, and I am sure this time I can enter the Aberdeen Summer Fruti & Veg competition.... and not in the dwarf category!!!!!