Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: mumofstig on January 01, 2017, 10:39
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New Year - new thread!
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Leeks, still lots left but nothing else now. However I do like the look of clear ground, minus any weeds!
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Picked some long Parsnips
Very long and fat leeks
Brussels sprouts and a cabbage
Carrots from the patio pots.
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Couple of leeks, parsnip and sprouts
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Another leek for soup..
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First winter harvest of the year, leeks carrots and a couple of impressive parsnips for our Sunday evening meal.
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The last of the carrots, some fly ridden but some ok
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Late Summer leeks, brilliant brussels, kale, parsnips, and the last swede ( turnip ) of the year.
Over the last 3 or 4 years I now consider myself a reliably proficient Brussel sprout grower. What made the difference ? Timing, an F1 variety, windrock awareness and proper netting. Ugly but very effective.
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A swede
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cut the main spear of the purple sprouting. probably a month earlier than usual!
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Brussels sprouts, and sprout tops
Carrots
Leeks
Desiree from the potato shed, last years crop.
Picked Kale and spinach yesterday.
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The last of the turnips and a few leeks.
I pulled the last couple of swede, but deemed them too pitiful to take home, plus they seemed to have been invaded. Deep holes burrowed into them and beasties lurking inside :ohmy: Off to the compost heap for them ::)
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Yesterday was kale and carrots.
Today is Brussels sprouts, leeks and parsnips.
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Yesterday I pulled up the last of the parsnips.
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Artichokes, carrots, kale, leeks, potatoes, PSB and swede.
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Leeks.
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Kale, leeks, PSB, sprouts and the last red cabbage.
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Leeks, kale and my first harvest of purple sprouting broccoli.
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Leeks, sprouts, celery still going well, dug out carrot containers found lots hidden in the compost and edible. purple sprouting just turning to purple.
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The last of the leeks and the first of the rhubarb.
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Picked some of the resurgent spinach and chard last week, may pick another load this week and that will be the end of the crop.
Still plenty of Kale for picking.
It was the last of the Brussels Sprouts today and their tops.
Also the last of the baby carrots from the patio pots, ready for a new sowing.
Picked some parsnips and leeks and still have loads of them left to pick.
First picked Rhubarb of the season today!
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Rhubarb for me today as well. I feel a crumble coming on :D
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Chives, oregano, PSB and a big bunch of wallflowers :)
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Rhubarb for me too, first picking. Huge bucket of parsnips,that's the last of them. Also found quite a few usable beetroot, at least I hope they are
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Lots of fresh air! :D
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Found several parsnips when I was digging over the bed in readiness for my broad beans. I've now boiled, pureed and frozen them.
Pulled up the leeks in one of my beds in readiness for my onion sets. I'll bake the leeks in a cheese sauce tomorrow. :D
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Rhubarb for me too, first picking. Huge bucket of parsnips,that's the last of them. Also found quite a few usable beetroot, at least I hope they are
Once cooked & peeled the beetroot have yielded 3 1/2 lbs, here comes the chutney pan again
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The first of the asparagus. :D
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Last weekend, first bunches of rhubarb, last leeks out.
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I'm going to remove the last of the leeks so that the bed can be readied for cabbages. The winter kale is looking a bit sad so I'll probably rescue what's left and get that area ready for... hmm... fennel perhaps.
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Picking rhubarb again today. Lifted last of the leeks today. Lots of asparagus. Kale still in but running to seed but some pickable leaves same for perpetual spinach. Cleaned up last of the carrots I lifted last week.
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Pulled up the last of the leeks and made a big batch of leek and potato soup for the freezer.
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Loads of rhubarb.
Picked the last of the leeks.
Plenty of Spinach picked.
Picked a load of mint to use and also bottled some up for the year as mint sauce and froze a load for Raita.
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Harvested 8 spears of asparagus for dinner.
Hopefully more to come soon provided the weather doesn't stop them in their tracks.
Cheers HH
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Rhubarb and PSB :)
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Celery for a spag bol and PSB
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Rhubarb for me too, first picking. Huge bucket of parsnips,that's the last of them. Also found quite a few usable beetroot, at least I hope they are
Once cooked & peeled the beetroot have yielded 3 1/2 lbs, here comes the chutney pan again
Are your beetroot tasty at this time of year? I always find them earthy tasting after over wintering in the ground?
Any found are either dug in or added to the compost heap.
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My 9 year old pulled his first rhubarb and cut some chives which he thinks are fantastic in scrambled eggs :D
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My 9 year old pulled his first rhubarb and cut some chives which he thinks are fantastic in scrambled eggs :D
Brilliant.... that's the way to start!! :)
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Rhubarb for friends we are seeing tonight. They love it. I don't mind it but there has to be a limit to my crumble intake.😂😂
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PSB.... another few bunches harvested... Waited so long for it to start to crop - boy is it making up for it :)
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Yesterday, a huge bag full of PSB.
Today plenty of salad leaves, some rocket & baby spinach leaves for a salad for tea
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More asparagus and then ran for cover from the rain.
Cheers HH
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PSB.... loving it and still a little more to go
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Broad beans, peas, onions, lettuce, spinach, and young celery. I do like early crops.
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New Potatoes (Pentland Javeline) from the greenhouse. Planted in mid Feb. Unheated greenhouse. Got about 3 lb, all hen's egg sized. Can't wait to try them.
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Yesterday the first 6 strawberries from the greenhouse but they had our little granddaughters name on them, although she did share with us & mummy.
Today, salad leaves.
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:D First crop of new potatoes for me as well, from the allotment but started under some plastic roofing.
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Another 6 strawberries from the greenhouse when granddaughter visited, she wasn't as eager to share today,choosing to munch on them herself, but grandad had 1, so did mummy & Grannie which left 3 for her 😊
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Have started a little judicious picking of lettuce leaves from the larger plants. Otherwise, there's nothing even remotely close to being ready to harvest.
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Yesterday picked 140g of greenhouse strawberries all for me & hubby, no little strawberry muncher around to nick em 😄
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More salad leaves, 6 Radish and our first 3 Strawberries.
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A real summer treat today - a bowl of strawberries from the plants in the raised beds at home, plus a bowl of peas from the pots in the greenhouse :)
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Shedloads of broard beans. In fact more than you could shake a tree at. Baby beetroot and a goodly amount of strawberries just to please the one who believes she is obeyed
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The very last of the greenhouse peas, wonderful, and dipping into the outside overwintered peas. Continuing kilos of broad beans, starting to freeze them. Proper carrots now from my trugs and the first Greyhound Summer cabbage.
First of the germidour garlic, and the usual early Summer salad/spinach.
Back to more than can be eaten. The tomatoes and raspberries are 2/3 weeks away.
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New potatoes, peas, a big bag of spinach and loads of strawberries. Well chuffed with that lot :D
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Salad leaves, 12 strawberries, he last 6 radish (from poly) and... our first mini cucumber which was quickly eaten by the wee one. There's another 2 cucumbers ready but I'll pick them later for dinner!
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Broad beans, garlic, spinach, mangetout peas and loads of strawberries :D
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22lb of International kidney potatoes from one bag and one pot.
Purple milan turnips.
Picked our first ever Mangetout, what a great crop they produce, first picking and we had 1/2lb, 45 pods from four of the plants. loads more can see to pick soon. Will be growing them again and will next week put in another sowing.
Strawberries.
Have picked this week, sage, mint, oregano, chives, rosemary, radish, asparagus and some mixed french leaf lettuce.
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The first... and probably last raspberry. Birds and squirrels are stripping the fruit trees, bushes and canes alarmingly quickly this year, I think they're cross I netted the blueberry bushes :lol:
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Good punnet of strawberries, pleased with them this year.
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3 punnets of strawberries, another batch of jam coming up I think
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A good bunch of spring onions this evening.
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More strawberries, all of the gooseberries & some elderflowers
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Charlotte potatoes, a massive carrier bag of Wizard beans, spring onions, greens ad the first of the loganberries and tayberries from the plot. I need to go back tomorrow after work with more tubs as there are loads ripening, plus the pink currants are ready.
Strawberries and mangetout at home :)
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Dish of strawberries brought home and loads eaten while digging :)
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First spuds. Wilja - really lovely - never grown them before and they had proper new potato taste.
Lots of rhubarb.
Nothing else really yet, first sign of a tiny courgette.
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Radishes and lettuce!
Cheers
Aled
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2 big lunchbox sized tubs of tayberries and loganberries, plus a tub of pink currants. Then when I got home ... drum roll please ... a tomato :D
It was a Latah which are a large cherry and it was growing outside. Always can be relied on to be the first for me :)
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a few courgettes and I couldn't resist a furtle in my charlotte bed....got enough for tea (although a bit scabby)
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More charlotte potatoes, which are getting to be a good size now. Loads of Wizard beans and 3 garlics I managed to miss when I harvested them a few weeks ago :wacko: Loads of hybrid berries and a big bag of greens.
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I picked more sugarsnaps and the rest of a short row of Greenshaft peas, plus dug up a couple more Pentland Javelin spuds.
Another tubful of Loganberries :)
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The first of this yearspotatoes- rocket, lovely flavour steamed but a big disappointment in yield. The last of the strawberries in the open but still got the ones in the fruit cage
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2 large punnets strawberries, 8 radish,2 mini cucs, bunch of syboes, salad leaves, bunch mixed herbs, first small white turnip and our first peas. Delicious for dinner!
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Strawberries and raspberries. :)
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At the weekend
11lb of Gooseberries
4lb of Strawberries
0.5lb Blackberries (no netting so the birds seem to have got em)
Rhubarb
New potatoes (Maris Peer)
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0.5lb Blackberries
Blackberries already are they an early variety?
For me today a good brunch of parsley & small punnet of raspberries
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10 courgettes :ohmy: :D, the first French beans and blueberries and some new potatoes
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Another small punnet of raspberries & I could have picked the red currants but I forgot when Mr S turned up for a look see, I cleared up & came home with him
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During last week;
Two colanders full of Spinach and red/white chard
First few raspberries
Three punnets over the week of strawberries.
French cobra beans
French mixed leaf salad, Lolla Rossa, Rocket and All year Round lettuce.
Picked out handfuls of Internation Kidney potatoes from the growing buckets
Emptied a bag of charlotte, 12lb.
Radish
Turnips
A bucket of peas and a half bucket of mangetout.
Fifteen Asparagus spears
Bowlfuls of gooseberries
Rhubarb
Mint, parsley, basil, chives and sage.
Today;
Picked 11 lb of broad beans.
Two colanders full of red and white chard and another of spinach.
More turnips and french cobra beans.
Sweet peas
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The last of the Charlotte potatoes and the start of the Kestral, shallots, khol rabi, beetroot, various berries and loads of radish. I discovered a huge pile on the communal compost heap where we dump our nasty weeds we don't want to compost. Not bolted or woody, but fat, fresh and delicious and a whole carrier bag full. Way too good to waste :ohmy:
I have the radish in the fridge and the chickens have the leaves :D
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I am very much a beginner at this but have managed to harvest a few things. Over the last 10 days or so we have:
Raspberries - picking a small punnet every couple of days
Swiss Chard
Beet
Peas
Broad Beans
French Beans - only a few but v tasty
Sugar snap peas - again only a few
Charlotte spuds - about 8kg. Happy with that
Radish
Spring Onion
Lettuce
And a lovely 'crop' of sweet peas that fill the house with scent. A real summer treat imo
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First of the carrots last night. Very nice.
Cheers
Aled
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First cucumber, first tomato, some lettuce and carrots. Potatoes are ready and will be harvested when needed.
Cheers
Aled
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Charlotte pots, carrots, broad bean, calabrese, strawberries and gooseberries ... tea sorted :D
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Got home last night and my wife had dug up the first of the new potatoes. They were lovely.
Cheers
Aled
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Over the last couple of days : new potatoes, spinach, beetroot, tomatoes and french beans :)
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Lots of potatoes (Charlottes) decent size, broad beans - not many most plants didn't survive the winter - and buckets of blackcurrants.
Spinach nearly at a decent size, Kale coming along and courgettes just starting. Yeah!
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Over the weekend few roots of rocket spuds,broad beans,raspberries,outer leaves of little gem lettuce & spring onions
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All my first earlies, spring onions, beetroot, radish and baby carrots. Finished strawberries and picked a few cherry toms to finish.
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My summer is here selection picked today from the greenhouse and pots at home.
I've grown patio aubergines this year, although my 2 are in a big pot in the greenhouse. Dozens of baby aubergines the blurb promised. I'm not quite there yet, but these are the first and there are a lot of flowers and baby fruits on the plants 8) This is the first time I've actually got anything except for the year I tried a grafted plant :D
The peppers are Supergreen - designed to eat as green peppers as the name suggests.
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Todays lunchtime sandwich included cheese, plus home grown lettuce and shallots!
Lovely.
Cheers
Aled
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Currently harvesting courgettes, broad beans, garlic, calabrese & French beans plus fresh onions and shallots as needed.
Cheers HH
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Loads today :D
I came back from the plot loaded with a carrier bag full of spuds - all from 4 Kestrel plants, a courgette, lots of outdoor cucumbers, khol rabi, beetroot, Nipper mini leeks, some onions and shallots that I was growing to use green through the summer and a big bag of various plot greens.
Tomatoes and french beans then added to my haul from home :D
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Yesterday I harvested the last black currants, the first 4 blackberries, the first punnet of cherries( cooking, loads more where they came from)2 little gem lettuce & spring onions oh & 2 gherkins & tadaa first cucumber back home from the greenhouse
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First of the French Beans harvested and eaten at the weekend.
Cheers
Aled
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Peas, beetroot, spring onions and some French beans over the weekend. Grand.
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My son took his own home grown carrots to school with him today.
Cheers
Aled
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My son took his own home grown carrots to school with him today.
Well done that lad :D I bet they were the best he has ever eaten :)
From the plot for me today just a courgette and a cucumber. From home 2 more mini aubergines, green peppers, 1 yellow pepper, a few more french beans and loads of tomatoes :)
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5 cucumbers 😇
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Carrots, 2 heads of green broccoli, 9 courgettes, French beans, chard, parsley, blueberries, blackberries and raspberries :D
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Hi all,
Not been on in a while due to family comitments etc but have had the allotment from January this year.
Been harvesting Courgettes, french beans, Blackberrys, charlotte and Jazzy potatoes, corriander, more courgettes, more green beans, raspberrys are all gone now and the tomatoes are coming now.
Today though, 2 cougettes a tub of green beans, a tray of Brambles 20 or so radish and 2 Marketmore cucumbers.
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A goodly haul today :)
Greens, tomatoes, courgettes, mini cukes and gherkins for pickling, peppers, summer cabbage, a mini aubergine, red onions, Nipper leeks and a few french beans. There were some spuds as well.
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Cherries, lots of them as some were starting to rot on the tree, I think they got bashed with the rains & winds of the last few days. There was one tub more but I gave that away on my way home.
Blackberries,1 punnet,destined for a pie I think.
Apologies I've deleted my attempt at uploading photos from photobucket as they are now trying to charge me so I'll also delete my photos with them & find another way of posting pictures from my ipad
Okay think I've managed as per instructions on the home page" how to post pictures"
Please click on the picture to enlarge😊
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Lettuce, carrots, potatoes, shallots, cucumber, French Beans, and a single tomato! My parents apple tree looks like it may well have a good crop.
Cheers
Aled
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Salad for the wife, radish, beetroot, baby carrots, spring onions, peas and tomatoes.
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Potatoes, courgettes, cucumbers, french beans, kohl rabi. baby leeks, sweet onions, raspberries and a big bag of greens from the plot.
4 more mini aubergines, peppers and a bowl of tomatoes at home.
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Carrots starting to look good, eat some over the weekend.
Cheers
Aled
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At last a proper red tomato, plus the biggest carrot I've grown so far in my personal gardening history!
Cheers
Aled
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Courgettes, cucumbers, french beans, onions, summer cabbage, raspberries and greens :)
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Been on a family holiday to Centre parcs. Back home this morning I've harvested, potatoes, a single tomato, 2 large cucumbers, and a small bowl of shallots. Not bad!
Cheers
Aled
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A big bunch of baby beetroot, spring onions, tomatoes, French beans and peas. Fantastic.
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Yesterday hubby picked from the greenhouse quite a few yellow tomatoes that were delicious
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Literally bags and bags full today. Potatoes, courgettes, cukes, beetroot, tomatoes, cabbage, french beans, baby corn, spring onions, raspberries, greens and a load of seeds from bread seed poppies.
A plot neighbour also donated a lurker courgette for the chickens. Well I say donated ... they were just back from holiday and were roaming the site armed with giant courgettes and a look of desperation in their eyes :lol:
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Courgettes, cukes, french beans, tomatoes, greens, raspberries and ... sweetcorn :D :D :D
The baby corn is also going mad. 25 cobs harvested today and loads more on the way. Each plant seems to setting at least 4 cobs. Not bad for 30ish plants crammed into a space about 5m x 1m 8)
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More yellow cherry toms, 4 cucumbers,blackberries. From which I chose 2 cucumbers,2 x6 tomatoes & most of the blackberries & I long runner bean for the garden club annual show,we shall see
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2carrier bags of runner beans,1 carrier full of French beans, 2 courgettes, 2cabbages , a big handful of parsley all are now in the freezer and 1 bag of potatoes to keep us going for the next week and a half. Oh and three raspberries.
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Sweetcorn from the early stuff :D Plus a few baby corn I missed yesterday. Luckily freezer space was ready and waiting. I've picked all the mature cobs as there are lots of secondary ones that need to fill out.
The late crop stuff is setting cobs quickly though. It may not be so late after all :unsure:
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All the maincrop potatoes, Desiree, king Edward and Picasso. Bunch of spring onions, cherry tomatoes and a nice haul of French beans.
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Tomatoes, sweet peppers and red spring onions this evening.
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Courgettes, sweetcorn and mini corn from the plot. There is more to get, but we were on foot so only took the urgent stuff. There were raspberries, but OH decided they would be safer carried home in his stomach ::)
Tomatoes, peppers, baby aubergine and french beans at home.
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Been away from the plot for few weeks due to hols and apart from lots of weeds ;), everything has grown such a lot.
Dug up last of my charlotte potatoes, some red and white onions, a few pak choi, (bit nibbled), a very large courgette,
raspberries, plums and a few pea pods.
The tree is loaded with plums and so many have dropped and are damaged.
Back tomorrow with a bigger container for more. :D
Offered plums to plot neighbour and in return got a variety of beetroot which was lovely as none of mine germinated at plot. :( Will sow them at home next year and transplant.
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Kestrel spuds, which are now moving into main crop size, beetroot, more baby corn, loads of french beans, greens, some rasps, plus the first of the squash. One of the spaghetti squash plants has gone over completely, so I took the fruit home to ripen the skins for storage.
A couple of pictures - cucurbit corner with the spaghetti squash, various courgettes picked over the weekend and cukes. The orange one is a lurker poona kheera cuke which has ripened. Unfortunately it was too close to other cukes to save seed from, but the chickens will eat it.
4 types of green veg clockwise from top left - cabbage, erbette, malabar spinach and huauzontle. The malabar spinach is a nice thick juicy leaf, sort of like a beefed up baby spinach in flavour, but with more of a purslane texture.
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Loads of plums, tree is loaded with them :)
Will need a ladder to reach the high up ones.
Autumn rasps are ready now and picked bowl full of really large ones.
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Picked and pickled a larger jar of shallots at the weekend.
Cheers
Aled
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Onions, spaghetti squash, loads of sweetcorn, loads of french beans, cabbage, greens, rasps and fennel. I spotted 1 fennel plant starting to bolt, so harvested the lot quickly.
I grew the fennel this year so it was in the partial shade of the mini corn. Its done pretty well and managed to bulb up before getting silly and going to seed :D
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Stuff I missed yesterday. The first of the borlotti beans, possibly the last of the mini corn and some pears off my new trees. I was advised to take the bigger ones to ripen at home so wasps didn't get them and so the smaller ones had a chance to swell a bit.
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Lots of French beans, some peas, baby carrots and baby parsnips to go with a roast dinner. Brilliant.
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Right then, carrots & beetroot daily, parsnips nearly ready a few more cucumbers, and a few shallots left.
Cheers
Aled
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More plums, last of my onions and a big dish of raspberries.
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Dug the first of my autumn King carrots.... just to see how well they had done on a new plot.
Delighted as I hadn't thinned them or paid a great deal of attention to them -
*weeded when they first came through and a swoe along the rows a couple of time but nothing more
Result: good sized carrots, no carrot fly damage and lovely flavour - (Budgies enjoyed the tops too)
As for everything else... the usual: potatoes, beetroot, pears and apples, late (yellow) raspberries, (spring) onions and loads of flowers. Quite happy to have something now that "Dad's Plot" is a think of the past.
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Last batch of dwarf French beans, few peas beetroot carrots, spring onions and tomatoes for a salad.
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what do I do with this? :unsure: amazed at this serpente di sicillia. neighbour gave me seeds....returned the serpent to neighbour :D
I didn't measure but this is nearly 4 foot long :nowink:
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Autumn leeks. spring onions, courgettes, french beans, fresh borlotti beans and greens from the plot. There was a Tromba squash as well, but he was too big to fit on the draining board. He's sitting along side the spaghetti squash in the greenhouse just to make sure the skin is cured.
Also picked lots of Chilean Guavas. There are as much again on the bush still to ripen, so not bad for one little plant in a pot :D
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Lifted the last of the potatoes, plus fennel, parsnips, carrots, runner beans, two sorry looking cauliflowers, butternut squash, tomatoes, raspberries, courgettes and, finally, a swede.
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Autumn leeks. spring onions, courgettes, french beans, fresh borlotti beans and greens from the plot. There was a Tromba squash as well, but he was too big to fit on the draining board. He's sitting along side the spaghetti squash in the greenhouse just to make sure the skin is cured.
Also picked lots of Chilean Guavas. There are as much again on the bush still to ripen, so not bad for one little plant in a pot :D
Do you dry your borlotti beans or freeze them?
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Do you dry your borlotti beans or freeze them?
These are for cooking and eating as is, but they also freeze well once cooked. Ideally I would eat some like this and dry some on the plants for storage in jars. There are loads of pods, but they are looking like they might run out of time this year to be dried :unsure:
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Autumn leeks. spring onions, courgettes, french beans, fresh borlotti beans and greens from the plot. There was a Tromba squash as well, but he was too big to fit on the draining board. He's sitting along side the spaghetti squash in the greenhouse just to make sure the skin is cured.
Also picked lots of Chilean Guavas. There are as much again on the bush still to ripen, so not bad for one little plant in a pot :D
Those leeks look great
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Last of the shallots harvested and tied up in the garage. Carrots in my lunch box!
Cheers
Aled
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3 rows of Kifli potatoes (17 plants) yielded all these and very few slug damaged :D
The red ones on the end are from a random Sarpo Axona I shoved in. That's not bad from 1 plant and I have another 3 rows to dig up. Jacket spuds a go-go for me this winter :lol:
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fantastic crop!
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Cabbage, a few courgettes, a cuke, beetroot, borlotti beans, french beans and greens. Added yet another bucket of apples to the haul when I got home.
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Some peppers, chillies and tomatoes including a Shirley with an extension
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Finally tomatoes at home are ripening :D
Mix of black russian, moneymaker, roma, brandy wine and sungold.
Look lovely in a dish but not sure how to post pics and I'm not very teccy!
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Probably the tiniest harvest ever reported on here, but the first saffron crocus opened a flower and 1 single set of stamens is now drying on the windowsill.
The saffron growers will understand ;) :lol:
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Probably the tiniest harvest ever reported on here, but the first saffron crocus opened a flower and 1 single set of stamens is now drying on the windowsill.
The saffron growers will understand ;) :lol:
Ooh wow I must check on mine when I get home but I think I may have scuppered my chanc s as I planted some tiny alpine strawberry seedlings in the planter too, they're now huge plants 🙄😥
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Hope your saffron manages to make a few flowers Snowdrops.
Today is pepper parade. The last of the sweet peppers, Trepadeira Werner chilies, Albertos Locoto chilies, a few Trinidad Perfume and the tiny ones are Hungarian Peach Peppers.
Also harvested seeds. The white ones are the TW chilies and the black ones are the Albertos Locoto, which are huge by comparison.
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Probably the tiniest harvest ever reported on here, but the first saffron crocus opened a flower and 1 single set of stamens is now drying on the windowsill.
The saffron growers will understand ;) :lol:
Don't sneeze & loose them haha
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Did a quick flit to the plot after work and came back with courgettes, 2 tromba squashes which are too immature to ripen now, cucumbers, greens and many beans.
A lot are not fully dry yet, but there are loads more on the plants that I want to try and push on to ripen. I am happy to cook and freeze them so long as I have my seed crop.
The picture shows Cherokee Trail of Tears on the left, Borlotti rear right and white seeded runners at the front on the right.
Once podded they yielded fresh beans to cook and freeze, plus lots of dried beans for the Trail of Tears, plus enough of a seed crop for the runners. I have loads of the Borlotti so not bothered about saving those.
Just cooking off the last batch this morning and the tromba is cubed and roasting in the oven with olive oil, chilli and garlic. The freezer will be getting filled later 8)
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Spuds, Marrows and Beans!
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The last usable cucumber & a huge bowl of tomatoes in varying stages of ripening, that's them all harvested now
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The remaining Sarpo Axona (3.5 rows - 21 plants), Shark's Fin melon, a carrier bag of various beans - borllotti and such, beetroot, cabbage and a couple of courgettes.
Note mega spud at the front :ohmy: There are several this size for some reason. The Shark's Fin melons are all from 1 plant and it still has one more fruit ripening.
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Haha, I think I’ve got that many sharks Finn melon too, I’ve not harvested them yet, thought I’d do it this weekend
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I'm happy they need to mature for a couple of months tbh. I have stashed them in the shed and forgotten about them for now :lol:
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The remaining Sarpo Axona (3.5 rows - 21 plants), Shark's Fin melon, a carrier bag of various beans - borllotti and such, beetroot, cabbage and a couple of courgettes.
Note mega spud at the front :ohmy: There are several this size for some reason. The Shark's Fin melons are all from 1 plant and it still has one more fruit ripening.
That's some spud! I've noticed that a local show has categories for heaviest potato, tomato and onion. Tempted to have a go at growing something to enter next year.
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Still harvesting Mountain Magic tomatoes and raspberries. I also took home a swede, a couple of parsnips and some carrots, together with a lovely bunch of flowers.
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These, plus 1 more I found dangling from the top of the bean frame. Then 2 tiny courgettes, a punnet of raspberries, the last boiling of climbing French beans
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Loads of beans to pod and eat the seeds of. My Italian Gold Beans that I thought only had a few beans on yielded a whole carrier bag full of pods when I started pulling them apart.
Pulled leeks - evidence of leek miner so had to strip a lot of outer leaves ::) I pulled a few more with a view to using the crop quickly rather than let them stand for any length of time. Also picked a bag of greens.
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Harvested my first ever parsnip yesterday.
Cheers
Aled
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2 lovely parsnips today, 2nd harvesting of them, had a couple last week I think, but not as big as these beauties 😊, plenty more to come
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Cavolo Nero, last of carrots, and another lot of parsnips....still quite a lot in ground. Escaped just before sleety snow started.....
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The first of the parsnips. Both were huge, one was forked but the other was a beauty!
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A cabbage and a big bag of greens.
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A rather large parsnip, had a bit of canker & wasn’t very long but was easily 4 inches across the shoulders😊
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Beetroot, parsnips, celeriac, fennel, some broccoli and sprouts. Roast veg and pork steaks for tea :D
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2 types of cabbage, greens - a mix of perpetual spinach and erbette, plus swede !!! :D
It may not be perfect and a little battle scarred from slugs, but it's the best I've ever grown and I'm over the moon anyway 8)
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Peppers and chillies. The fruits are not surprisingly, no longer ripening and the plants are now looking very sad. May convert the chillies into jam.
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A bunch of parsley to be made into the sauce for a fish pie