I couldn't believe my eyes... 4 weeks ago I bought a tiny zucchini plant at the market in Cortona, now I have already harvested and eaten several homegrown zucchini!
There are also big tomatoes hanging on the tomato bushes. They still have to ripen, but I am sure they will, as it is still at least 25 degrees here every day. Delicious!
The cucumber plant is also growing fast, there are already many yellow flowers, but whether we can get cucumbers from them, I wonder. We will see.
We have a number of fig trees on our property, they give a lot of fruit. We eat fresh figs, make fig jam with port, red onion/ fig chutney, we dry figs in the pizza oven and for the winter months we made pots full of figs in syrup with rum. Delicious with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Also, we are now -temporarily- happy with all the blackberry bushes that overgrow part of our property. The blackberries are big and delicious. We also made jam of them in all kinds of flavours. Blackberry/watermelon, blackberry/banana, but our favourite is blackberry/rosemary.
Nice, we now regularly receive a basket with all kinds of delicious products from our Italian friends, neighbours and acquaintances. Grapes, tomatoes, beets, onions and melons. So delicious!
I am really looking forward to next year, then we will also build a big 'orto' = vegetable garden where the guests can gather their own dinner. It can't be fresher and tastier according to me. Even the children of our guests are amazed by all the beautiful things in the garden, and they love 'our' tomatoes! Mum, these tomatoes are the tastiest,' we often hear them say.
Look, that's another reason we went to Italy...