Winter shortage of veg

We eat turnips in salad, picked when they're about golf ball size. They're crisp, juicy, slightly sweet and taste a bit like melon. Toyko Cross is a great, white variety.

Speaking of sweetness, I've noticed it's the first thing to disappear in fruit and veg on a supermarket shelf. A lot of things freshly picked from the garden taste much sweeter to me than anything from a shop. Savoy cabbage for example, cooked a few hours after it was harvested, was really sweet, whereas the stuff from the supermarket is completely bland.

There aren't many things from a supermarket that I actually enjoy eating on their own. When you've tasted fresh produce there's just no comparison.

Supermarket tomatoes are not even worth talking about.