My Vegetable Garden

Day 39

Then: 15 stone 5 pounds (215 lbs)
Now: 14 stone 4 pounds (200 lbs)

My vegetable garden has been supplying all our needs for over six weeks now, and should carry on doing so until the first frosts of winter.

Here’s what the raised beds are currently producing (from bottom left, clockwise)

1
Red Onions
Shallots
White Onions

2
Bok Choi
Chioggia Beet
Red Beet
Radishes: French & English
Oak Leaf Lettuce
Lettuce Sansula
Lollo Rossa (for July/August)
Lamb’s Lettuce
Arugula
Red Leaf Amaranth
Strawberries: Royal Sovereign

3
Courgettes
Carrots
Spring Onions
Wild Rocket
Maris Piper Potatoes

4
Potatoes: Arran Pilot & Charlotte
Spinach
Lollo Rossa (for August/September)
Little Gem (Cos) Lettuce

5
Peas
Leeks

6
Broad Beans
Runner Beans
French Beans
Parsnips

7
Red Beets
White Beets
Golden Beets
Red Purslane
Mustard Greens: Pizzo, Red Giant and Homiz
Persian Cress
Purple Mizuna

Then, at the back of the picture against the wall, you can see the soft fruit area, with:

Blackcurrants
Redcurrants
Whitecurrants
Gooseberries
Raspberries
Apples
Pears

and, at the back, under the dovecote, is the herb parterre, which, as well as a lot of bindweed, is home to:

Parsley (French, Italian and Curly)
Origamo
Marjoram
Greek Sage
Purple Sage
Lovage
Sorrel
Coriander
Chives
Salad Burnet
Fennel
Dill
Basil and numerous different Mints
Bay, numerous Thymes

Also, in the main garden, I’m growing artichokes, bay and rosemary (and about a dozen different thymes as well as camomile and some mints, and in the orchard we have Cox, Braeburn, Worcester and Bramley apples, various pears and, best of all, three whole treesful of juicy Victoria plums, which should be fully ripened by the end of my diet.


So, Dr Dukan, I’m afraid the “vegetables every other day and no fruit at all” programme just isn’t going to work for me. Not this year, at least.