The rain has eased off and you can start enjoying the garden. If you've been working at your garden all year, now is the time to sit out and enjoy the fruits of your labour. Why not eat outdoors in the sunshine, let’s look at what is good to eat in August...
Think hot weather, think spice and chillies! Whether you’re cooking hot meals or making lunchtime salads, what a great time to be using chillies to give your food a more exotic twist. I don’t know about you but there’s nothing I like better than to sit out in the garden on a nice summer’s day.
Don’t rule out using home-grown products in your food because you’re put off by the difficulty of growing it. What’s great about having a grow-your-own chilli kit is that its so simple. And unlike a lot of products in the garden, you can grow them at any time of the year indoors.
Now is a great time to get started...look at what I managed to grow by following the straightforward instructions on the box. I managed to get 100% success rate and all my seeds took so now my greenhouse is overloaded with Chilli plants. It became a bit of an obsession seeing how they were growing every day, just ask my family!
It's certainly livened up my cooking. I sat out in the garden and had hot chilli con carne with a glass of red wine yesterday...it doesn't get much better than that on a warm summer evening.
