BEVS

Plums : Over Christmas , what we are not eating or giving away, I am freezing as fast as they fall because they don't and won't last for more than a day or so.

Now , it's the time of the carrot ; black boy peach ; tomato & sweetcorn gluts.

Black Boys, I will freeze whole for crumble and pies later on.

Carrots and sweetcorn get blanched and frozen.

Toms - that has to be soup. I can pick up home made relish and chutneys for virtually nothing, by swapping or gold coin.

bearskin

Harvest Festival time. The smell of freshly picked apples still takes me back to being 6 years old sitting in the village church surrounded by fruit and veg.

Can you imagine what it must be like in the Valle del Sarno at tomato time. The mind boggles. 'Flat tack' wouldn't even begin to...

mickey_d

You should visit an apple packing plant some time, our local one processes a couple of million+ a day, tis an amazing sight
You get sick of the sight of them by June though

BEVS

Same here.

Not ours you understand.