Thanks for the replies. It seems I shall have to forego peas. I doubt I have any mange tout in my seed stash. Uncertain because our volunteers xmas pressies included some heritage peas of unrecognised variety - robinson - or maybe that was the name of the tomato. I had better grow those. I certainly will be growing potatoes for the rest of the family. There is nothing like a home grown spud. I get a small taste occassionally by cutting the end off one of DH. I am going to try to grow a lot of cauliflower this year. I am taking advice from someone who does very well with them. I will draw a veil over my success (as in lack off) to date. I think I will convert to the green zucchini type courgette has they seem a better replacement for pasta than the patty pans and tondo's I normally grow. I have not eaten any pasta since diagnosis in September so I can polish up my halo a little there. With homegrown on the horizon there should be less chance of a summer slip. I used to eat a lot of pasta.
I shall be freezing berries as soon as I get them home this year. No more jam making. I have the makings of a new fruit cage earmarked. I shall order a couple of Juneberries to give a slightly earlier harvest. There should be room for another 6 bushes but I am not sure what yet. I already have rhubarb, 2 blueberry, a dozen or so blackcurrants and half dozen gooseberry and redcurrants. I have been promised a white currant.
My spinach looks beyond hope, chard indistructable, nero and calabrese going well. Leeks harvested and should last a couple of months. Garlic and radar through about 4 inches. Shallots are already delivered to the lottie shop, sprouting looking good and I am trying to wait a month before I start sowing. I have a tendency to find myself with hundreds of seedlings in March. I already need to pot on my leeks.
Potato tubers ready to be put up for chitting foremost, charlotte, kestrel, carolus, cara, pink fir, sarpo mira, belle de fontenay. Oh dear