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Courgettes, runner beans, raspberry gluts - yeah - been there, done that and got the t-shirt.  A glut is the official title of a crop you have so much of that you can no longer physically keep up with the plants (or at least you get so sick of eating the one thing over and over that you are desperately trying to find a person to palm them off on to!)

It only really happens with a few crops because they need to be picked regularly to keep on producing and they're not much good for preserving.  I never really have a raspberry glut because I can make raspberry sorbet, raspberry jam and raspberry gin.  It's harder with runner beans and courgettes as they're only really ever appetising eaten fresh (there's something so horrible about frozen beans) ... things like potatoes, onions, leeks and carrots don't count as they store fine or stay fresh in the ground.

So imagine my surprise when I found both greenhouse and outdoor cucumbers have gone in to production overdrive and despite giving loads away I still have 12 of them!  I've never had much success with cucumbers before so I am celebrating this fact and planning on making fermented dill pickle spears (there's no way we'll eat them all fresh)

I am now plotting for a future asparagus glut

There is no such thing... you can't have too much asparagus!!!!