Sprouts
Sprouts on the scale
It’s Christmas, so we’ve started picking the sprouts. Well, it’s tradition, isn’t it.
Our crop extends to six plants in total, and on each one there must be 40 good sprouts, so we picked off 130g the other day for dinner, and took another 1.2kg today, which we prepared for Christmas lunch tomorrow.
It’s a cliche to say that your home grown veg tasted better - largely because you tell yourself that to justify all the effort, but they did taste fantastic the other night, and I have high hopes for the ones we took tomorrow.
Shopping at Sainsbury’s, that 1.33kg total would cost £2.07 at £1.56 per kilo, and I reckon we’ve taken about a fifth of the crop, so it would cost a tenner to buy all that we have grown, which is not very cost effective when you consider how much space they take up. If we’re going to be totally merciless about this whole idea of self-sufficiency then you need to think about what your land is yielding. £10 isn’t much at all when it could have been put to more profitable use through the summer growing a heavy crop of beans, which we’d now be eating from the freezer.
So, they’re very nice but I think that unless we switch to having an allotment this may be our first and last year of home grown sprouts. Either way, we’re enjoying them while they last.
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