Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Beetroot queen on August 06, 2009, 13:00
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It would be lovely if we could show off our harvests, but rather than have 20 million posts just use one big one, its lovely to show off what we have collected
I'll show you mine, if you show me yours :tongue2: sounds rather rude doesnt it :blush:
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Roast dinner on the menu tonight :D
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Harvested my onions from sets today. Probably the best ever. Variety is "Centurion".
A few of them:
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All of them:
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Wow love the onions, we have just used the last of the stored ones, by golly they make your eyes leak, I was virtually blind by the time I finished chopping :lol:
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Harvested my onions from sets today. Probably the best ever. Variety is "Centurion".
Nice size & shape - are they still a bit green to have a taste? Im still looking for something that tastes right to grow next year.
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Done it once...can do it again ;)
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Think I'm gonna pull up some spuds tomorrow, a couple of plants have died down so....fingers crossed!!
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Harvested my onions from sets today. Probably the best ever. Variety is "Centurion".
Nice size & shape - are they still a bit green to have a taste? Im still looking for something that tastes right to grow next year.
Not tasted them yet, and won't be doing until they're well dry! (About next July the way this weather's going). Still using up the winter onions.
Agree about the shape - I hate those with flat bottoms where you waste half the onion chopping the root off!
As usual I fell for the write up at the local nursery, which said it had high yields and excellent flavour. At least the first one's right!
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lots of shallots :)
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An untidy pile of shallots!
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Today's efforts, including Garlic that I'd not been expecting to produce!!
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Along with the onions, pulled a couple of days ago?
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Garlic, beetroot, dwarf french bean's, spinach, kale and runner bean's for us today.
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French beans, borlotti beans, salad leaves, spinach, courgettes and a marrow (i.e. a courgette that hid under a leaf for two days and grew like Topsy) for me today - will get some pics over the weekend
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Today's efforts, including Garlic that I'd not been expecting to produce!!
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Along with the onions, pulled a couple of days ago?
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I am so glad somebody elses garlic is only spring onion sized. Mine were planted in October so should have 'suffered' the necessary cold spell. Will speak to Colin at the Garlic Festival next weekend as to what went wrong.
I am so glad somebody elses garlic is only spring onion sized. Mine were planted in October so should have 'suffered' the necessary cold spell. Will speak to Colin at the Garlic Festival next weekend as to what went wrong.
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No pics from me - my rechargable batteries are finally no longer rechargeable. But Im very proud of myself so bear with my story (or not!)
Second year of plot - first year did well on peas, beans and swede and not much else of note. Been ill with Crohns this year so missed a month of vital growing time, and have been playing catch up since then.
Our next door neighbours Bill and Brenda - both in their eighties - have had it rough recently. Bill has had a hip replacement and been diagnosed with cancer, Brenda has also had a new hip and probs with her back
Anyway - to cut a boringly long story short. Brenda used to Dig For Victory back in the war, and has always taken a keen interest in my plot stories. Today was the first time Ive been able to take them round a 'veg box'. They had garlic, onions, spuds, courgettes, cabbage, lettuce, herbs and carrots with plenty more to come. Their faces were fantastic. Best ever day Ive had with my produce, and I thought I was a tight wad!
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Vanilla the cat inspects the coffee morning harvest:
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Garlic looks a bit green, Mick. Has it cloved yet?
All looks good though.
Yeah Dave, they've all cloved! There are some 'normal sized cloves' under that pile somewhere! lol! I pulled both the onions and the Garlic up earlier than I would have liked as with all this rain things had started to rot and I got a wee bit scared! lmao!! I thought best have some small bits than rotted bits ???
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Just a small selection of veg we have had.
I'm so proud as we only got the lotty mid april and it was the usual weed ridden plot.
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My first ever cauli and courgette.
BtG :D :D :D ;)
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Some spuds n peas here today :D As well as some beaultiful Dahlias too
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I can't take the credit for growing these.. but I will take the credit for eating them.
Yellow plums and they're rather nice. Its a shame I can't cook otherwise there'd be something other than stewed plums on the menu.
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Onions, garlic, plums & beans
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First ever cucumber!
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First ever cucumber vs Aldi's - can you tell which is which? :tongue2:
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Onions, garlic, plums & beans
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First ever cucumber!
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First ever cucumber vs Aldi's - can you tell which is which? :tongue2:
Yep I can tell but it may have something to do with the shrink wrapping :lol:
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Hi.
Troubles posting so keep your fingers crossed.
Selection of pics taken this year.
PUP!!
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There's more.
PUP!!
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now it's stopped raining and the suns come out
sturgatter, centurion, hercules
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charlotte, desiree..a bit of scab but it will peel off.
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forgot to take pics ::) but came home today with a bucket of runner beans, bucket of purple french type beans, two handfuls of peas, large bag french beans, 2 courgettes and a lovely bunch of cornflowers
will try and get some pics next time
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I made a veggie lasagne....home grown tomatoes, onions, garlic, green pepper and chilli, courgettes and a 4inch aubergine (next door's cat knocked it off >:()
was loverly :D
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No pics, but yesterday I got two wonderful cucumbers and a handful of french beans (greet, yellow and purple)
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Todays haul. Hope those jam jars arrive soon, got a whole load of pickles to make.
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brother in law came to visit us at lottie last night and went home with
1 marrow
2 courgettes
2 cucumbers
2 cabbages
loads of beetroot
few carrots
loads runner beans
loads french beans
oh, and an old car radio (which is what he came for :D )
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How about this for a first timer, Ron
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My harvest from yesterday .......
4 and 1/2 lbs of sloes :tongue2:
very pleased even if they didnt come of my plot
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I don't have any pictures but I've had loads of green beans, strawberries, raspberries, courgettes and lettuce which I'm chuffed to bits about. Am definitely hooked now, already thinking about what I'd like to do next year!!
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I left the courgettes on my front wall in the hope that someone will take them!
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Approx 4 - 5lbs of toms over the last two days, they taste lovely too. They've really gone mad in the last week!
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Today's coffee morning harvest.....
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What lovely pics. This is my first year growing in the backgarden.
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Yesterdays harvest was another courgette that makes 10 in two days and 8lb of runner beans :unsure:
omg we are drowning in beans :lol:
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WOW, what lovely pics of your crops!
Today some more cherry toms before I dug the rest of the tom plants up from blight :( and a marrow which I am going to use with the green, good toms to make Hugh F-W seasonal chutney (a friend has given me some bramley apples to go in it too!).
Going to take some sweetcorn cobs off tonight to go on the side with homemade pizza and I recommend if anyone is growing yellow courgettes - harvest a few when they are small, slice them thinly lengthways and drape them on pizza raw when cooking - delicious! Might take up one of the few spud plants up too for a bit of potato salad - greedy guzzlers we are! :tongue2:
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I know this is blatant showing off but it was just brilliant providing most of dinner tonight from the plot and watching my family really enjoy a hearty meal :D
Desiree roasties
Fresh peas shelled by my 3 yr old (with a little help from Grandma), really sweet and juicy
Baby Leeks
and Parnsips that were to die for, even though I do say so myself.
Took my dad to see the plot and we were chuntering about how big the parsnip tops were and surmising about what might be lurking beneath. "Have a furtle," says my dad. So I did and was astounded at the size of the first one I pulled "Hope I haven't just pulled up what could have been my prize winning parsnip!" I replied, incredulous at the size of the beast on the end of the leaves :D
They seem to be a really decent size already. I'm still learning.........I thought I wouldn't be harvesting them until November...? And something about leaving them in the ground when it's frosty to sweeten them keeps ringing a bell....? I think mine might be about 3 feet long by November :blink: :lol: (hopefully...)
:D
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Todays rushed harvest in the rain was as follows.
3lb of runner beans
3 sweetcorn
6 courgettes
5 onions
a basket of kale
5 snowball turnips.
I swapped some for the 19lb of damsons a friend gave me :lol:
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Picked a small squash for roasting later with old bay spice mix and olive oil, and a green and yellow courgette for stir frying with some veggie 'chicken' peices....oh, and a cuke to be chopped up in some couscous made with stock cube to add more flavour.
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Today:
Last of the spuds dug up (carrier bag full)
Courgettes (carrier bag full) various types - the Striato di Napoli has been scrumptious
Runners (carrier bag full)
Dwarf French Beans (carrier bag full)
Climbing French Beans 1/2 bag
1 big butternut squash
2 cues
about a basin full of toms.....
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Just picked these, some from the greenhouse, some from outside.
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A mix here of Shirley, Brandywine, Black Russian, Black Cherry, Paul Robeson, Tamina & Super Roma.
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And 3 kilos of raspberries.....
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just been up the lottie after 2 weeks away and picked
4 sweet corn
a bag of runner and french beans
bowl full of broad beans
2 bowls full toms
carrier of carrots
7 cucumbers
1 cabbage
big bowl of lettus
hand full of spring onions
sorted
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Today we dug up main crop potatoes Two large boxes full! sarpo Mira great size too
Also about 10 cucumbers marketmore, Carrier bag full of french and runner beans. Some tomato's gardeners delight/Amish paste. Beetroots LOADS! Kale and three large marrows. One small squash for roasting whole MMMMMMM... Pumpkins are getting bigger not sure when to pick but left them for now just hope the local kids don't mess with them. May have to spray our brussels as caterpillars starting to eat them... even under mesh... now thinking about planting overwintering onions. ::)
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Cobs #32 to #52 awaiting dispatch!
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Another 5lb of runner beans
courgette
onions
more curly kale, in with mash, yummy
some apache chilli's
an outdoor cucumber and two indoor ones
five snowball turnips, yuck wont bother with them again, they are awful :wacko:
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Saturdays Harvest ;)
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Todays harvest including some volunteer potatoes. :)
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No pics as most are safely tucked away in my freezer
Carrier bagful of dwarf french beans - purple and green - more to come
8 turnips (I hope I like them!) - more to come
4 courgettes - more to come (!)
Handful of runner beans from my sons plant - the first lot ready - many more to come
Half a carrier bag of sprouts - mainly blown but enough for three meals - more to come
5 Caulies - more to come
3 lettuce - 1 little gem and 2 webbs wonderful - more to come
1 parsnip picked for sunday dinner just to test they are growing OK - more to come
My freezers and fridge are looking fab :lol:
Tonight will be the first time I have grown every single veg on my sunday dinner plate
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Couple of days ago, our first squash, all 3kg of it.
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Brought the family home.
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what 'make' are they? :lol: bet they took over all your allotments' gaps :D and some of nextdoor's :nowink:
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what 'make' are they? :lol: bet they took over all your allotments' gaps :D and some of nextdoor's :nowink:
Jack of all trades - and they didn't take over!
Very compact plants planted 6' apart. Didn't trail at all.
14 off 3 plants.
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A busy day in the kitchen.......8 jars of tomato, garlic and basil pasta sauce now in the cupboard cooling.......and a humungous veggie lasagna.....all portioned up and frozen..except for the portion i had for tea :D
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Not sure which day that was, as you can see someone missed that courgette :lol:
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yesterday harvest
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And finally todays, can you guess who has just cleared out the camera :blush:
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Had my very first pear off my tree this year.
It is only a baby tree and didn't produce any fruit last year (first year in the house). This year I have 4 pears!
Very nice it was too :tongue2:
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Just come back with a good handful of runner beans (still loads to come), French beans and radishes. I also had several pods of peas, but I ate them while mooching around the allotment and planting my birthday brassicas!
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This years squash. Missing three Winter Festival (the little yellow acorn) and a pumpkin (unkown)... the butternuts are nearly all Harrier (free BBC seeds) apart from the biggest which is Waltham. The little bright orange hubbard are Uchiki Kuri and the green buttercup is Bon-Bon
chrisc
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Very impressive.
What's the green bottle shaped one?
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Today's crop (it's easies picking em up than growing peas ::)
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Loads of Tomatos
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Very impressive.
What's the green bottle shaped one?
Wychwood Green Goblin... tastes a biut like apples...... :wacko:
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this harvest pic is a few weeks old but I am seeing if I can work the new way of posting pics
marg
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sorry for no pics here but i completely forgot about posting pics :lol:
well we harvested 2 of are rather small giant atlantic pumpkins that where made into a lovely pumpkin soup we also had 4 cobs of corn and 3 courgettes
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Any one for pumpkin soup.
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Wow Griff, I am impressed!
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Any one for pumpkin soup.
Oooh..yes please Griff.....my favourite!!!! :D :D
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What are your plans for lifting it? ???
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lifted yesterday weighed in at 360lbs, lifted using a sheet one on each corner.
Given to the children at the local school to play with and cut a face in. Get ready for next year now. I Will probably have some spare seed if interested let me know. Sorry but first come first served. Wont send it until end of February.
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lifted yesterday weighed in at 360lbs, lifted using a sheet one on each corner.
Given to the children at the local school to play with and cut a face in. Get ready for next year now. I Will probably have some spare seed if interested let me know. Sorry but first come first served. Wont send it until end of February.
Griff, would love some seed from that mamoth, a friend of our's started a pumpkin war with two plants she brought and we won with a measly 5kilo pumpkin. but first year and the kids where very impressed any way. It would be great to grow something that big :)
Martin
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We told the neighbour to pick the runner beans while we were away for the week: came back yesterday to find: no runners left :ohmy:
I hadn't realized how much he liked em :D
So no photo :lol:
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lifted yesterday weighed in at 360lbs, lifted using a sheet one on each corner.
Given to the children at the local school to play with and cut a face in. Get ready for next year now. I Will probably have some spare seed if interested let me know. Sorry but first come first served. Wont send it until end of February.
I would love some of these seeds please! I grew turks turbans and pumpkins on the raised bit (for drainage) at the end of our patch, and it was lovely to hear people's comments on them (we have a footpath through our lottie). (comments were mainly - "aww, what happened to your pumpkins?", with me answering "they're turks turban squashes, they're supposed to look like that....": so it would be great to nurture a giant one for people to marvel at! what did you feed yours on? love the fact you've given it to the school - that's great!
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lifted yesterday weighed in at 360lbs, lifted using a sheet one on each corner.
Given to the children at the local school to play with and cut a face in. Get ready for next year now. I Will probably have some spare seed if interested let me know. Sorry but first come first served. Wont send it until end of February.
Great pumpkin-impressed, would like two or three seeds when ready if that poss.-cheers-H
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Repeat piccie, I know, but just be warned pumpkins easily cross with any adjacent cucurbit., you may not get what you expected.
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But was it still edible, and did you cook it or eat it raw? :nowink:
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It was a plant I gave to a neighbour.
He says he ate the fruit, but I keep forgetting to ask him in which form!
The plant was a pumpkin/marrow cross.
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Taking some veggies to a friend in a flat in London. She pays a fortune for organic veg. She'll love mine, all covered in muck still smelling of Autumn on the plot.
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A lovely veg selection. You're a better friend than me, I would have taken it home and eaten it :tongue2:.
We had a lovely sunday roast yesterday with spuds that we found on our new lottie, some swiss chard that a neighbouring plot holder offered me, as well as parsnip and some jerusalem atrichokes from my own garden. Yummy!
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Hello.
This is my first "daily harvest" post.
What excitement today! First potatoes!
We only took on the site in August (previously grazing and not been dug before), and as a punt I put in a row of potatoes (Maris Peer) August Bank Holiday weekend, hoping we might get some new pots for Christmas.
Dug up some today and they look fabulous!
It might not look like much of a harvest but small beginnings and all that...!
Looking forward to Christmas dinner now. :tongue2:
Here's daughter no. 1 with her "haul" - potatoes, beetroot (her favourite), baby carrots and turnips.
Penny
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Didnt really expect any veg today but its always a bonus, the swede was (cant find words to describe it) good x amazing. So so different to supermarket :D even it is was small but my family is small so we fit well together
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I harvested some radishes today - and they are pretty darn big!
The varieties are:
And 4 beetroot, though not sure what variety.
Does anyone how I should best store them for 3-6 weeks?
Thanks
Simon
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the radishes might be woody if they're last years
I'd eat the beets now
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Agree with CQ - if the beets aren't woody, you could pickle 'em".
Managed to get down yesterday to my plots, I've been chiseling out of the frozen wastes just enough to keep us ticking over, this time it was on with my Christmas present, (fleece lined wellies), to face the quagmire.
Well worth it- Big bag of sprouts, January King Cabbage, Savoy cabbage, 2 humungous parsnips, bag of carrots, 20 leeks (leek & spud soup coming up), some very early PSB and one grotty half hearted swede. (We've eaten the two big ones the whole row produced).
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hi there i dug up some leeks then some more leeks today. going back tomorrow to dig up some more all ive got left is leeks. mind you they make a nice soup ::)
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Last of the parsnips today plus some jerusalem artichokes and a little cabbage.
We have a few cabbages (without hearts) left, some kale and artichokes (they never run out!!!).
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Picked sprouts, a few PSB, scorzenera, parsnips, leeks and savoy. The swiss chard was very frosted so I dug half of it up. It had fantastic looking roots.....can you eat them?
My daily harvest is beginning to use stuff from the freezer as well now.
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Spuds, a few brussels (not very successful this year), a sack of spuds from the shed, the last of the parsnips, a stored squash and a few leeks. I made bubble and squeak, delicious!
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some jerusalem artichokes I put in the garden last year... not a bad crop but we've got really heavy clay, I'm thinking they'll like the allotment better (mostly nice loam). :D
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dug up the last few Carlingford potatoes, they're in good condition although pretty small, don't think i'll bother next year, brussels, a couple of leeks, parsnips and a cabbage - not bad for January !
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Any one for pumpkin soup.
Now thats a pumpkin!! My little boy would be impressed! he wants to grow pumkins on our new plot.
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now it's stopped raining and the suns come out
sturgatter, centurion, hercules
(http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn14/lottie153/harvest002.jpg)
charlotte, desiree..a bit of scab but it will peel off.
(http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn14/lottie153/harvest006.jpg)
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Jen, is that a purpose built onion drying rack? It looks very impressive, how long do you leave them to dry?
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Still on plot in early March-
Cavalo Nero
Brussels -red and green (sick of them)
Red Cabbage
Savoy Cabbage
Leeks
Rocket
Carrots
In polytunnel-
Lettuce
Saved-
Onions -just about gone
Shallots
Would love to say the winter squash are still being eaten but the mice/ rats got the lot!
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Today I pulled the last baby savoy cabbage the last 2 leeks the last swede...........I needed to clear the plot to finish the digging :lol:
With a potato (bought :() they made a lovely bubble and squeak for tea :) but from now to first harvests it's the supermarket for me :(
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I picked the first of the new salad leaves today...... mostly rocket, with a scruffy odd bit of lollo rosso lettuce, from a tub in the greenhouse......but it's a welcome start :D
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testing.
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I logged on as Mrs Digger and couldn't post either.
I've moved it back in here for now, I think it got shifted to the stickies sub-forum during a spring clean whilsgt it wasn't being used much.
I'll do another Mrs Digger test.
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Test - yayyyyy.
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Thanks DD :)
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Right, the reason I wanted to post on this thread is ive just had my first harvest of 2010. I got a tubs of strawberries and a tub of peas. They literally are heaven :D :D :tongue2:
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Well, where's the piccies?
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Sorry, they were all eaten by the time id thought of that ::) :lol:
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Onions, shallots and garlic ready for use. :D
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I picked a huge bowl of mixed leaves earlier and you can't even tell I have touched the plants, Leaves are about the only thing we have right now but lots of them :D
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So proud of my little garden today... to go with my tea tonight I had 11 mange tout, 2 sugar snap peas, a radish, a courgette, a carrot and 3 strawberries. I was so proud in fact I had to shout for my neighbour to come and admire my carrot :)
My veg growing is clearly on a slightly smaller scale than most of you lot, but I'm still very smiley about it! ;)
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doing well on salad leaf and i have dug up some spuds this week charlotte lovely , bringing home my fierst lettuice tomorow as it is harting up nicely :)
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First cucumber, I am so proud not sure anyone is going to be allowed to eat it.
(http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/ab224/Starlinglp/Allotment%202010/DSCF2034.jpg) not bad considering the plant had been consigned to the compost twice because I was sure it was dead.
A few broad beans and peas too
(http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/ab224/Starlinglp/Allotment%202010/DSCF2032.jpg)
2 courgettes and a marrow and various berries which were all eaten by my little helper before we could take a picture.
This growing lark is such good fun
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1LB strawberries, a few gooseberries and several beetroots picked today. :-)
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a magnificent 5 french beans from one of the pots in the garden...
Hoping for a better crop when we finally get the plot up and running properly
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Dug up a short row of first earlies, not sure what variety but they're very bright pink. Also, had my first ever globe artichoke. I hadn't realised quite how spiky and painful they are. After it tried to kill me a few times I just chopped the damn thing in half so I could get the middle bit out. Tasted nice though.
In other news picked peas, sweet peas and a couple of beetroot from the guy on the plot next door. Also some mint to have with my fresh peas and new potatoes for tea. Yum!
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some mixed salad leaves,some rocket and radish :D
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Picked my first ever courgette. Don't actually like courgette but my mum is happy to take any going spare. (I really grew them for her anyway)
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i dug up my pentland javelin from my raised beds in back garden today as needed the space. Very pleased with the yield conisdering i had neglected them somewhat....a few of the larger ones looked like they had a bit of scab coming on though. looking forward to tasting them :D
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My very first ripe logan berry :)
strawberries that never make it inside lol... same with the peas
and a courgette :)
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My first potatoes, from a flower bucket - just enough for us :D.
(http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/ab224/Starlinglp/Allotment%202010/potatoharvest.jpg)
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They look fab Starling Can't wait for ours.
We managed to get some gooseberries not quite enough for a pie though and the lettuce is now ready too.
(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x285/cariad_01/Vegetable%20garden%202010/DSC_2232.jpg)
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Been picking Vivaldi spuds for a few weeks bit by bit but wanted to clear the last of the row to give the parsnips behind more room. 3 plants - 9lb of spuds. Will def grow these again, no scab despite sandy soil and they taste great.
Also 4 nice tennis ball size beetroots, one rather large lettuce and a bucket of weeds. :lol:
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enough blackcurrants, raspberries and goosegogs for a summer pudding type tommorrow
some swiss chard and betrrot leaves for the guinea pigs.. and blinking courgettes...abut 2 lbs a day, every day...
garlic pulled, and in the shed, shallots.
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First courgette of the year (they were a bit slow to start). A nice bit portion of peas, a few of the last strawberries, a globe artichoke. I took up the last of the first earlies, but the yield wasn't that good after they were hit by frost. Thinned the tubs of carrots, and have heaps of baby carrots to get through. Some of the onions had gone over, so I dug those up and left them to dry out (maybe a bit early, not too sure). Will have a nice stir fry with my artichoke tomorrow. :)
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Had the first harvest from our new plot tonight.. not much - just 5 radishes - but the o/h was over the moon!
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More first earlies cleared, replaced with a late potted squash and leeks.
A couple of Onions, to be replaced with a potted Kohl Rabi when it has formed a good rootball and been hardened off. Onions will be replaced by more brassicas as I plant onions and brassicas in the same bed.
Corgettes and squashes coming up all over the place - not sick of them yet.
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Anouther tub of peas and anouther tub or strawberries, im getting a tub of every day know. Oh and Im also getting a bunch of sweet peas of every day :D
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Tonight for tea we had pots carrotts peas broad beans and cauliflower with our roast lamb followed by Rhubarb crumble all produce of the allotment except the lamb
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today we harvested our first potatoes. And they are yummy :)
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vivaldi pots, twinkle and balmoral peas, various lettuces, the first cucumbers, strawberries, carrots, onions, beets, spinach etc etc.
Have sold on bags of rocket,spinach and various baby leaves for 50p a freezer bag...a third of the price of my local co-op.
Incidentally, I did the square yard thing with all the salad stuff and it has been a raging sucess.
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our first broccoli head today. also plenty of lettuce ,herbs and yesterday our first potatoes.
Harvested the last of the rhubarb and am bottling it and also going to make some chutney.
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I picked a lovely good as the supermarket green pepper! My first one ever.......never managed it before........so I'm well chuffed :D
Also a handful of green beans and a garlic head that was more like a garlic flavoured spring onion ::).....you can't win them all ;)
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A couple of pounds of new pots, some radish, carrots, broad beans, courgettes and beetroot as well as a globe of garlic.
Enough left over from tonights meal for more tomorrow. ::)
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Picked three cucumber, lots of spring onions, should have a couple of courgettes by the weekend. :)
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Cut and come again lettuce, pea shoots and rocket- made a nice side salad.
French bean ready in next few days and broad beans too!
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Today I picked snowpeas and some onions. Made a delicious chicken stir-fry. Tomorrow going to pull up the last of the snowpeas and broc. since temps are suppose to be in the high 90's. Some of the peas are hard so I am going to save for seed to plant in late August. Herbs are starting to bolt too.
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32lb spuds
45 garlic heads
52 onions
last of the first bed of peas. (next year I am netting after the pea moth trouble this year.)
strawberries one very very large bowl
alpines another large bowl
and kale
and a hand full of toms :D
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74 strawberries, and a tub of peas :tongue2:
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First year of growing in the garden and loved it. So happy to get carrots, lettuce and potatoes yesterday and the peas, beetroot, onions and toms are coming on well. Yey, loving it. :)
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When I thinned the swede I saved the thinings (about 6in of growth..oops) and used them in a stir fry this evening....they were quite hot..very like rocket once cooked YUM
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All ordinary stuff but it tastes nice :)
On the left Rhubarb Raspberry Red and lettuce Chartwell.
On the right, rhubarb Timperley Early , lettuce All Year Round. The Raspberry Red rhubarb is much better than the Timperley Early
Pots Premiere, carrots Early Nantes, peas i cant remember :wub:
(http://i50.tinypic.com/2m64y9f.jpg)
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Finally have something to add to this post :D Harvested 2 lettuce, handfull of radish & a big bowl of red gooseberries:
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4140/4776883272_1d1fa8b804.jpg)
not sure what to do with them, are they ok to eat uncooked, or best in a jam or pie?
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They look really lovely. I eat loads of mine straight of the bush and they are the yellow sort and dont look half as appetizing as those :)
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here are some of mine, I am well chuffed ::)
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No picies here sadley ill have to get out with the camera next time
2 Punnets of resberrys
taters all eaten now
peas
swedes
rhubarb
salad leavs
beetroot
also some decent sized parmex carrots
lots of flavour and very sweet
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Loads of strawberries,
French beans,
Rasberiies,
Peas,
Yum :tongue2:
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Courgettes, raspberries, courgettes, beetroot, courgettes, sugarsnap peas, and of course mustn't forget courgettes (one year I'm sure I'll match supply to demand but I've never got it right yet!)
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2nd crop of turnips blanched and frozen ready for winter stews.
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No pics coz I ate em :lol:
Half a carrier bag of peas!!!
Plus strawbs and lettuce so far
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These photos are amazing. If anything they give me real inspiration to grow vegetables. Think it's brilliant to have all fresh veggies that you've grown yourself to have to eat with your Sunday roast. Some day that will be me, maybe this time next year!
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we picked a red cabbage yesterday and it needs a post of its own believe me :lol:
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Today - for sunday lunch
(http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/8187/dscn1068d.jpg)
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homeguard potatoes , sugar-snap peas and carrots and beetroot a lettuce and loads of salad leaf
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27kg tomatoes..... I hadn´t picked for 3 days :ohmy:
1 galia melon (1 left to pick)
a few peppers
5 aubergine
4 pumpkin (from 16kg-20kg) :D
2 turks turban pumpkin
1 orange dream pumpkin
2 cucumber- they were hidden so have grown very big so will probably be bitter :(
I made tomato fritto last night- today I will be bottling tomatoes. I might even be bottling them tomorrow too!!
Pamela
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Yesterday I picked tons of raspberries and made a great raspberry cheesecake. I've no idea what kind they are but I have to say they are the best raspberries I've tasted for many years, they came with the house. :) I also picked a few more courgettes and made some posh zucchini fries which were lovely and I think I finished off the sugar snap peas which never make it indoors! I've got more plants coming along but not near flowering yet wish I'd got my timing right and will try to do better next year, so that I have a constant supply as we all love them.
Today if it ever stops raining I'm going to harvest some beetroot which I have never used fresh before so I can't wait, I have a few ideas for using them. Mind you it's not looking as if the weather will break as it's pouring down at the moment and has been all morning, the dogs are following me around asking for a walk but I'm hoping to put that off a bit until its drier. I might get some more potatoes in today as well.
I'm loving this growing your own malarkey, walking out and picking a lettuce, spring onions etc as required is brilliant and I'm sure it's all saving me a fortune in buying in veg. A small punnet of raspberries alone costs a fair bit and we've got loads. :)
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8 weeks on the new plot, finally had a "proper" harvest (all we've had til now is the odd radish), tonight we managed 1 very large green courgette, 2 yellow ones, and a mini cucumber... i'm happy as Larry!
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Just lifted almost 10lbs of first early Lady Chrystl from 9 plants. They do look nice. :)
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We harvested our first ever cucumber today. I also picked a few salad leaves and a couple of cherry tomatoes, so we had our first ever entirely home-grown side salad with dinner tonight. :D
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good few kg of first earlies (glad i left them in 2 more weeks they are great), first french beans (just starting to set after the mangetout have finished), a courgette, my first shallots and the best carrot i've ever grown!
its taken a while but its coming good :)
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Home reared chicken ( the best I ever tasted !) orla potatoes, courgettes and carrots. Strawberries. :D :D
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Gosh Thrift I couldn't eat my chickens, they shall be buried with honours when they pop their clogs.
Mind you I bet yours were good, you'd know exactly what went into rearing them I take it? Do you do the deed yourself?
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Picked a few green beans for tea and picked a pod of the tiniest peas and ate them then and there ;)
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Three beautiful cucumbers from my outdoor plants and a handful of scallions (spring onions) which all went into a salad.
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This wasn't quite all of the day's harvest, I'd already given some tatties, courgettes and beans to my mum and dad.
Not a bad haul though!
First artichoke of the season. Didn't last long, daughters shared it for starter.
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No pics but came home with peas, raspberries, garllic, courgettes,peas and beetroot, tomorrow will be spuds, calabrese, mnore raspberries, courgettes and peas
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Gosh Thrift I couldn't eat my chickens, they shall be buried with honours when they pop their clogs.
Mind you I bet yours were good, you'd know exactly what went into rearing them I take it? Do you do the deed yourself?
This bird was one of two white ones ( are they cobs ?) which are bred locally and usually killed at six weeks.
We decided to add them to our crew and let them lay. However, they were such gluttons and barely moved unless forced to get outside that weight became a problem. The first was dispatched ( disappointing when cooked ) and the next started to lay occasionally.
She too succumbed to greed and overweight so met her demise swiftly at the hands of an expert. The difference was that we hung her as recommended on this site and she was delicious.
I got the job of gutting and cleaning ! and cooking of course,
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Today...
Half a carrier bag full of peas
Beetroot ready for Vals chutney recipe
Radish (hate the things, OH has grown them and is very proud)
Swede (first one for sunday din dins, yay me!)
Baby carrots (to mash with the swede)
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10 juicy tomatoes today. I reckon I'm only a week away from fantastic Swiss Chard & a few courgettes! Mmmmm.
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More salad spuds, beetroot, little gem, lollo rosso, blueberries, raspberries, peas ans strawberries. 2 tiny tomatoes, more courgette and a kindly neighbour gave me a kohl rabi. May have to join the healthy eating group soon.
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You already are eating healthily with all that veg and fruit :lol:
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Rainbow carrots and rainbow Swiss chard for a colourful Sunday lunch whilst outside a pigeon snacked on the romanesco.
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First marrow! 8 and 1/2 lb going to take the two of us a few meals to get through that! There are five more on the one plant, can you make marrow curry, marrow bolognaise, marrow lasagne?
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I got my first courgette today. I've never grown them before and haven't tasted them before. Eeeeeeuck................!!!
I tried a slice of it raw and it tasted like soggy cardboard. :lol:
I'll try it fried tomorrow to see if it's any better. Well it can't be worse! :lol:
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I am so proud today as I picked my first ever cucumber from the garden :D
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I got my first courgette today. I've never grown them before and haven't tasted them before. Eeeeeeuck................!!!
I tried a slice of it raw and it tasted like soggy cardboard. :lol:
I'll try it fried tomorrow to see if it's any better. Well it can't be worse! :lol:
courgette in bolognese on saturday in frittata today....eating some most days at the moment :lol:
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More beans, garlic, small iceberg lettuce after I had took all the slimey leaves off, potatoes, beetroot, courgettes, potatoes and sweet peas :D
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7 1/2 lb of blackcurrants off 1/4 of the bushes:
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c182/G4IAR/DSCF2629.jpg)
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Nice blackcurrants. I got a whopping 22 blackcurrants off my bush :(
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oh i'm so loving all these pictures - they are so inspiring. i'm chomping at the bit to get going. well done to you all
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For dinner...half a Golden nugget squash roasted with charlotte potato wedges and all sprinkled with chopped chilli, a small handful of runner beans and some mince in gravy.
Obviously I didn't grow the mince :lol: ::)
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oh i'm so loving all these pictures - they are so inspiring. i'm chomping at the bit to get going. well done to you all
Whats topping you? Get some pots going with a bit of lettuce in ;)
(and dont tell anyone you talk to them when they appear, or is that just me? :blush:) )
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Three blueberries!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The birds got the rest. Will net tomorrow. :D :D :D
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A courgette and a small handful of green beans for me... starting to get bored of the courgettes already and a glut of them seems to be taking hold of my veg rack! Guess my sister will be given some more shortly
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Today ANOTHER batch of courgettes (been distributing to friends), more Cobra beans, yellow ball courgettes, carrots.
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I am very glad I didnt grow courgettes this year..my friends and neighbours are slowly coming back ::) :lol:
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Dug my first root of Pentland Javelin this morning. (I was very late planting and they didn't go in until mid-May).
20 very nicely formed egg sized spuds off the one root. This would be about 9 weeks growing time.
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Hooray! Very Happy today. Had my first ever proper crop;
- Lovely Swiss Chard
- A Few Tomatoes
- Two yellow (round) courgettes
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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A further 8 lb of blackcurrants.
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More courgettes, had an unsuspecting new guy on the plot next door and managed to fob a few off on him. Some nice french beans - Cobra, will try that variety again. My very first tomato, hurrah! Growing them outside so taking forever to ripen. Spuds have been very disappointing this year for some reason, tried some heritage varities but next year I will stick with allotment favourites. Loads of shallots, have pickled the small round ones and kept the banana ones for cooking. I've also pickled a jar of beetroot.
Made some courgette bread. Bit fiddly, but a very nice recipe if you're stuck for things to do with courgettes.
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2889/courgette-and-mushroom-bread (http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2889/courgette-and-mushroom-bread)
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Nice one wombat. I think I might be needing that recipe! :D
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Thank you Wombat, I shall make some later today :)
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More beetroot more peas and a 2 nice sized sweedes. French beans, potatoes and courgettes to follow
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Nice few runner beans, 2 courgettes ::) a few blackberries and raspberries (enough for me!) and a green pepper made it home, but I was munching on baby peas on the plot!
If I'm not careful none will make it to full size :nowink:
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A few more broad beans and a small baby summer cabbage. It's big enough for the two of us. :)
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Broad beans, carrots, cucumbers, 2 sungold tomatoes...first of the season and grown outside, they beat the greenhouse ones.....lettuce, potatoes, small spring onions and two french beans the dog missed! :)
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Not strictly a "daily harvest", but from the last couple of days and a bit of jammin' earlier in the week. Today's coffee morning............
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c182/G4IAR/DSCF2631.jpg)
(More stocks of bread & jam in the wings!)
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not a great harvesting day.. 1 mini cucumber and 1 radish!
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1 courgette - my first as they were planted late. 8 beautiful beetroot which I cooked and we had some for tea with lovely vivaldi potatoes, parsley, chives and garlic all from the garden Just added chicken sadly shop bought :(
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We've been naughty and not been to the allotment since Tuesday :S
So we went down today and were rewarded with 9 courgettes (yellow and green) French beans (lots) a few runner beans & 2 cucumbers- so we shared the booty with nan who we then took out for Sunday lunch :)
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This morning I picked some more runners and chard to go with Charlotte potatoes and a pork chop for lunch :)
Tea time I picked a cue some baby salad leaves and a cherry tom to put in my crusty roll!
I just love this time of year ;)
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Today's dinner; or, part of it anyway.
Haven't included the various lettuce leaves, rocket, spring onions and beetroot.
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Well i pulled a couple of Parsnips today ... just to see how they were getting on , i think there not far off being ready :) the one on the right had a coming together with a stone ::)
And the Lager was to wash them down with after i munched them :D
(http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff303/Macker_06/DSCF3391.jpg)
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They really, really do taste much better after a good frost. I wasted one once by digging it up early.
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They really, really do taste much better after a good frost. I wasted one once by digging it up early.
Yeah it says this on the growing packet after a frost for best results , but with this being my first year ... i thought i wouldn't have a chance a growing them ... so i had a little peep to see how they were getting on ;)
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more new spuds (had them for tea... amaaaaazing!), a handful of peas, the last of the sugarsnaps, some mangetout that went over so I de-shelled them and cooked as peas... and harvested my Kale early... under duress. >:(
The kales next to it have been attacked by a hoarde of mealy aphids... monstrous colony of them.... so decided to cut my Nero di Toscana kale a month early rather than let the blighters take it over.
Its a cut and come again, so might get some new growth once I've sorted the mealy aphids out.
Horrid things.
:mad:
Been gathering ladybirds from all over the plot today and setting them down on it.... lets hope they can eat many times their own body weight in aphids! :blink:
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Had a furtle at my maincrop spuds and was amazed at how advanced they are. I ended up coming away with 16 tennis ball sized king edwards for tonights meal and a dozen golden wonder for tomorrow, and only 1 nibble mark. :)
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A handful of peas, a panful of french beans 2 more courgettes ::) 2 more ripe tomatoes and a ridge cucumber :)
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Got my 1st ever home grown Q today and it was worth waiting for. :)
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1 courgette, 1 mini cucumber and 3 radishes from the plot. About to go & pick 3 strawberries from the garden!
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peas, beans and courgettes ::)
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:) :) :) feeling very smiley. Apart from the lettuces over the last week we've had a serving of broad beans and radishes. More beans and radish to come but the cabbages are hearting up nicely so shall start on those. Onions pickable and tempting. Want a sneaky look a tatoes but resisting.
As we're still in out first 6 months and still have a lot of work to do feel very proud.
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A handful of peas, a panful of french beans 2 more courgettes ::) 2 more ripe tomatoes and a ridge cucumber :)
roughly the same today, but a lot more peas :) :)...............I keep checking the corn as the silks are brown, but they are not quite ready yet...soon though ;)
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Pick a greyhound cabbage , broccoli , loads of peas , cauli , green beans , some spuds .... through them in the steamer and cooked a lovely big juicy steak , that was tonights tea :)
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My first daily harvest report: courgettes, runner beans, red duke of y potatoes, red onions and shallots, peas and a few broad beans + 6 different sorts of lettuce leaves - used with roast chicken for the 3 of us yesterday and fried up as a fritata to go with local sausages today + a bag of the same veg given to a single friend in the amounts she could use for one meal. Strawberries, as well, mashed with some sugar and used to top cheescake. Feeling very proud of myself when I carry the produce into the kitchen knowing it was grown organically and picked the previous hour. No air miles with our food at the moment!!
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My first daily harvest report: courgettes, runner beans, red duke of y potatoes, red onions and shallots, peas and a few broad beans + 6 different sorts of lettuce leaves - used with roast chicken for the 3 of us yesterday and fried up as a fritata to go with local sausages today + a bag of the same veg given to a single friend in the amounts she could use for one meal. Strawberries, as well, mashed with some sugar and used to top cheescake. Feeling very proud of myself when I carry the produce into the kitchen knowing it was grown organically and picked the previous hour. No air miles with our food at the moment!!
This sounds so perfect! Somthing I can only dream of at the moment, wish I could get my hands on an allotment!
I picked a single courgette from the garden today :tongue2:
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A little gem lettuce, an onion, clove of garlic, a few shallots, a few cherry toms, and two 9" cucumbers :D :D :D
Again the blueberries and raspberries didn't make it back :nowink:
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A courgette, a cucumber and a handful of green beans. shame it's all green.. but as we've only had our allotment for 10 weeks i really can't complain :)
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6 eight ball courgettes, three big handfulls of runners, two big mouthfuls of raspberries! :tongue2:
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I love this time of year :)
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The first sweetcorn, YAY some marmande toms, the last of the peas, some beans, a golden nugget squash a Uchiki kuri squash, a courgette and a small aubergine, 3 ridge cues and 5 of what should be gherkins for pickling :lol:
PS please ignore camera date......one day I will try to understand the instructions and set the correct one ;)
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I harvested a load of tomatoes today.
When I say "harvested" I use the term loosely, as I picked them up off the greenhouse floor as the weight had broken the truss off.
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Two handfuls of french beans! first ones ever, little gem lettuce, lollo rosso, few sping onions, cucumber and a few more toms, and more courgette
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loads more french beans, the last of my beetroot, a handful of toms, a couple of green peppers, some chillis and some basil for a tomato sauce, really pleased with todays harvest
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One courgette and 9lbs Lady Chrystl 1st earlies.
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turnips,beans,potatoes,peas,cabbage and a few small carrots mmmm making soup tomorrow me thinks :)
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3 good sized turnip
a good couple of handfulls of peas
1 corgete the size of a small marrow and 4 beetroot
Thought id have some tomatoes by now but they just havent been ripining :(
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i picked 2 courgettes, and a few beans
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Carrots, spring onions, courgettes, sweet peppers (picked green as I like the fresh taste, and the final cucumbers from the out door plants which have just died. Toms look like they might finally be turning - cannot wait as have the taste of shop bought. Plenty of cucumbers developing on revived green house plants.
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From the garden I have potatoes and peas and I have been on the largest dog walk ever to gain 2 lb of blackberries and raspberries for home made jam. Made 2 jars already and its lovely. ;)
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Little gem lettuce , spring onions . radish , spuds , red tomato's :D and beetroot , had a chicken salad for tea :)
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3 and a half pound of beetroot, half a carrier bag of french beans, half a carrier of runner beans, 6 courgettes which are now the star of a chutney :D
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4 radishes, 2 green beans :( and one mini cucumber!
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First long white cucumber, not sure if it is ready but it was touching the ground, and I am having it before the slugs :tongue2:
Two yellow scallop squashes, another handful of french beans, a few carrots, 3 kohl rabi and ...........courgette.
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Today i picked ... green beans , spuds , cabbage , peas and this lovely Cauli :)
(http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff303/Macker_06/DSCF3408.jpg)
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Picked my first runner beans of the season (they only went in about 6 / 7 weeks ago), yet another mini cucumber (glut in the fridge already, so gave it to our next door neighbour (who also has a plot on the same site)), as she was interested in what the mini ones tasted like. 1 courgette but could cope with that, as hadn't picked any since at least hmmmmmm Friday!
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Carrots, beetroot, potatoes, courgettes, french beans, runner beans. Sadly all the strawberries are finished. Tomatoes still very green.
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Our first apples and they are GORGEOUS :happy:
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wow they look lurvely, my apples are no where near ready yet :(
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courgettes, beetroot,spring onions, red onions and loads and loads of beans.
Discovered one lot of my carrots have been got at by carrot fly :mad:
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i just harvested and ate 4 yummy sweetcorn :happy:
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picked half of the shallots, the other half have gone missing from the plot last week whilst we were away on holiday.
i can live with the birds taking the gooseberries, but shallots ?
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Back from 5 day holiday today so.....
25 tomatoes
40 leaves of chard (defo 2 meals)
4 big round courgettes
1 normal courgette.
Fantastic! :D
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A few King Teds plus a little courgette which has been hiding at the back of the plant...... :)
(http://www.hartsheadflowerfactory.co.uk/images/KTed1.jpg)
...................and a few Golden Wonder...............
(http://www.hartsheadflowerfactory.co.uk/images/GW.jpg)
It's a bit early for maincrop but I couldn't resist.
The cougette is getting stuffed............... :ohmy: to go with the evening meal. :lol:
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First tomato of the season (tasted wonderful) and two cukes.
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some more sweetcorn and beans went into the freezer 8)
Runner beans, last peas and charlotte spuds went on the plate :)
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the last of my pentland javelin dug up, rainbow chard, courgette and more beans
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Well ok this sounds daft ::)
But I finally picked two of my first ripe tomatos today and ate them straight away..... oh WOW how yummy are they. So much nicer than shop bought and satisfaction that I did that!! :D
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I've had a busy day, 12 x two portion sized bags of runners or french beans, blanched and frozen plus three coffee jars of pickled beetroot done. That should keep us going over the winter!
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:) Also pots :) Really pleased with the Glads :happy:
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Super photo Spana !!
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Gorgeous pic Spana!
I managed to get some runner beans, peas, 2 cougettes and a small handful of strawberries.
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The courgette fairy struck again last night ....2 more and I already had 4 in the fridge ::)
A ridge cucumber some more tomatoes and enough runners for my tea :)
Picked a few raspberries that got as far as my mouth :D
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Not too sure if this will work but this is todays harvet- am so very pleased, we've already had loads of raspberries, peas onions, garlic, radishes, lettuces etc and then all this today :) Yum! Courgette and cherry tomatoe risotto tomorrow with my salmon!
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Oh the pic didnt work- so heres what we got today:
four massive handfuls green beans
5 desiree potatoes
handful runner beans
punnet of cherry toms (gardeners delight)
8 courgettes
1 marrow
2 beetroot
Patty Pan squash
Massive pumpkin
Thanks to all the lovely people on here and their expert advice on growing :)
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Another marrow, 2 courgettes, 15 carrots, small bag green beans, yellow scallop squash, 2 runner beans.
Also dug up one of each main crop spud, chose those with the most dead foliage.
Maris Piper - 10 medium spuds -scab and lots of eelworm holes
Picasso - 11 mostly smallspuds - terrible scab only one eelworm hole
Pink fir apple- 17 very small spuds - some scab and a few eelworm holes.
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half a dozen carrots and another couple of beetroot some good size radish and a selection of onions, then i decided to have a firtle and managed to pick out a enought orla potatoes for a meal
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Bust stringing shalots today and onions tomorrow - will post picture when they are looking all pretty!!
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Maris piper potatoes, carrots, shallots, parsnips, runner beans ...... all went beautifully with a leg of the most delicious lamb from Lidl !
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Maris piper potatoes, carrots, shallots, parsnips, runner beans ...... all went beautifully with a leg of the most delicious lamb from Lidl !
I am drooling :lol: We're beef farmers so i dream of eating roast lamb :lol:
Wild mushrooms so I cant take the credit for the growing. Picked them this morning and had them with fried tomatoes and scambled eggs, all our own stuff. :) What a breakfast :D
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Yet more frech beens. 2 nice looking courgettes. Peas and onions :happy:
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A butternut --- Yayyyy :D :D :D :D
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sniff sniff I'm not jealous really, mine BNs are only about 5 inches long :(
I have got 1 Thelma Sanders squash that's big enough to eat though and an orange Uchiki Kuri, so shouldn't complain :D
Picked more runners for tea and gave the grandchildren a mix of black, yellow and red tomatoes to take home, which amused them 8)
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yesterday, beans, turnips, 2 cabbage, 2 courgettes, and some tomatoes from Bob ;) today me and my little helper emptied his sack containing pentland Javelin wow what a result a lot better than the ones I grew in the ground.
Guess itbags next year :D
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Got my first ripe tomato today.......................but it didn't get as far as the greenhouse door. :lol:
2 Q's and 2lbs of french beans. :)
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Lucky things. My BN's havent even flowerd yet :unsure:
Anyway got the spuds dug up. Picaso cross of the local farmer. Pickled the beetroot. Not much els has happend realy
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My butternuts still have male flowers only :-( but did manage to pick the first decent size crop of runner bean (instead of just 3 or 4), the hugest radishes i've ever seen (thanks rain), and a courgette that's gone from zero to hero in 48 hours (again thanks to said rain!)
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So so pleased :D :D
I know, i know small things, small minds ::)
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Spring Onions, cauli, beans and spuds :D
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The very first ripe tomatoes!!! So pleased as i really didn't think the toms would work out this year (normaly get hit with blight).
Also pulled up enough chantenay red for a family meal tomorrow.
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Brilliant Starling !! What did you do with all that ? :ohmy:
By the way, our hens would kill for carrot tops. :D
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Lovely pic Stirling :) almost ch****masy with all that red and green :lol:
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yesterday i harvested a huge courgette measuring at 1 and 1/2 foot long, 1 ordinary sized courgette, a handful of beans, 3 sweetcorn, and 4 outdoor cucumbers :D
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Lovely pic Stirling :) almost ch****masy with all that red and green :lol:
:ohmy:
Shhhhhhhh....... that word is banned for a good few months yet :D
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I pulled up about 30 shallots about a week ago but because of the following wet weather I have been drying them in the kitchen (not ideal I know) but today they look amazing!
they are the first thing I have ever grown and I'm really proud of myself!!! :tongue2:
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Loads of french and runner beans, and a courgette which has gorwn into something big enough to kill someone if you hit them with it :lol: It was hiding at the the bottom ::) :D
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Managed to avoid the numerous storms today to picj some tomatoes, carrots and a courgette for my vegetable tagine.
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I pulled up about 30 shallots about a week ago but because of the following wet weather I have been drying them in the kitchen (not ideal I know) but today they look amazing!
they are the first thing I have ever grown and I'm really proud of myself!!! :tongue2:
Great Bazzakk ...... it's always a thrill and especially when you eat them !! :D
Hope you grow lots more veggies next year.
Edited to correct quote.
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Thanks Thrift! I'm preparing them to pickle!!! :D
I have my blighted tomato plant whose fruit is so far healthy but still green, a number of carrots, some leeks and some cauliflowers (which I'm desperatley struggling to keep ontop of a caterpillar attack!! But I'm winning so far ;) - Next year they will be heavily meshed!) to harvest yet.
I'm soooo excited. My leeks are fab! I am dying to pull one up to cook with but keep leaving it to get a little bigger :tongue2:
I have four cauli heads growing but like I said its a job keeping ontop of the caterpillar problem. I go hunting every day! ;)
I have turfed a few of my OH's plants out of the flower bed to grow my veg and what he doesn't know is that I'm now so hooked that I'm planning on removing the other 3/4s of the non veg plants to make way for next years masses!!!!! :tongue2:
Ha ha, just peeling my eye watering shallots last night convinced me that I will be grwing more and more veg year on year until most of my garden is taken up!
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3 apples and a ice cram tub of blackburries :tongue2:
Made a crumble :D
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Washing up bowl full of spuds from 3 dustbin(!) Wont bother growing King Eddies that way again :lol:
5 toms
french beans
cucumbers
4 courgettes (a 'gift')
lettuce
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3 yummy toms. 2 corgettes more french beans onions and picaso cross spuds
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About 20lbs of Red Duke of York make fantastic chips Yummy
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Today I picked lettuce, rocket, radish and toms for my salad to go with fish n chips
really pleased with my efforts they taste delish soooooooo much nicer than shop bought :D
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A few tomatoes, some runner beans and I pulled up a couple of onions too.
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First sweetcorn cob, for breakfast, some lettuce, runner beans and a couple of onions.
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2 sweetcorn cobs!!! Mmmmmmm!!!!!!
Little gem lettuce, some carrot thinnings, runner beans and a cucumber all ready for tomorrows tea!! ( Hard a rumour the rain is coming!!!)
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Yey, just eaten half of my first cucumber.
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First alpine strawberries, runners french beans and tomatoes. The last of the carrots as well :D
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Picked the first of the beetroot - they have finally made it to a decent size! Radishes, 3 cues, green & runner beans and some leaf beet... the only thing missing for the first time in weeks... a courgette = phew!!
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yesterdays:
1 radish,
loads of beans (frenh and runner)
Loads of apples,
Blackberries,
Strawberries,
Not long now until ill start pulling up my maincrops :tongue2:
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Yesterday's harvest was some giant beetroot (now roasted and pickled), radishes and carrots, and the ubiquitous courgettes. Also from neighbour, some lovely sweetcorn, rhubarb and cucumbers.
I plan to pick some blackberries and dwarf french beans (which have just kept coming) today.
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Had an entirley all grown meal today (well apart the fish)
Two corugettes
Handfull of french and runner beans,
Some spuds,
Tomatoes for a sauce,
Basa fish
You realy cant beat it :D :tongue2:
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I have just harvested a small cauliflower and a beautiful leek, and am tucking in to a scrummy cauli/leek cheesy bake right now :D
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Not sure if you could call it a harvest today, as none of it made it further than plant to mouth! Heh! But even so: tomatoes, radish, brocolli, dwarf french beans, blackberries.
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Hooray! Things get better and better. I am so thrilled with my first year. I'm so looking forward to next year already! :D :D :D :D
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Yesterday we had another 5lb of runner beans, four courgettes, 3 sweetcorn and two potatoes that had lifted out of the soil
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Not sure of the weight, but had three Tesc* "bags for life" stuffed with assorted beans.
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Yet another carrier bag of Runner Beans - good job we like them & I have 3 freezers!, cauliflower, courgettes, tomatoes, cucumber, chillies, pepper,chard, onions drying hanging in the poly tunnell. :D
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Cooked a spicy pot-roast brisket meal yesterday for a couple of friends, and tried to include as many home grown veg as possible as several of them are coming to an end.
Roast potatoes (the last of the Lady Chrystl which I left in the ground as an experiment), roast herby Winter Squash, runner beans, sweetcorn, buttered carrots with parsley, cheesey-baked courgettes. "Afters" was raspberries and Cornish ice-cream.
So satisfying when all your home-grown stuff comes together on a plate to be shared and enjoyed with others! :) (Top-rated item was the sweetcorn, by a mile, as usual!)
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Cooked a spicy pot-roast brisket meal yesterday for a couple of friends, and tried to include as many home grown veg as possible as several of them are coming to an end.
Sorry to hear about your anticipated loss.
I hope you can make some new friends.
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Cooked a spicy pot-roast brisket meal yesterday for a couple of friends, and tried to include as many home grown veg as possible as several of them are coming to an end.
Sorry to hear about your anticipated loss.
I hope you can make some new friends.
:lol: :lol: Thats the way i read it aswell ... poor old chaps :lol:
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Dug up all my onions a week ago and brought them home to dry today (before it rains!). I started them really late (end of May) but someone on the forum said "go for it, what's the worst that can happen". Great advice! :D :D
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that's a nice set of onions ;)
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More beans, red onions and a fantastic cauli, 1st one I have ever grown :D
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2 butternuts
bag of runners
24 sweetcorn
small bag of salad leaves
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20 beetroot of varying sizes
2 cucumbers that are very strange in shape (may be gherkins!!)
12 tomatoes (100s and 1000s variety so tiny)
jalapeno chillis
ornamental chillis - can they be eaten???
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About ten tomatoes :D
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Mange Toute and Peas (Kevlin Wonder) second wave of sowings;
French Climbing Beans - much smoother taste and mouth feel than runners;
First planting of runners nearly finished and the second sowing just in flower. The old vines will come home with me one day to be introduced to my lawnmower and then thrown in the compost bin;
Beetroot, carrots, corgettes, turnips, swedes, swiss chard, kale, sweetcorn and dwarf french beans.
My plot is one of few that are still blazing away while the rotovatar crew have done their damage and gone home for the year!
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Trust you to get that little (no) dig in at the end! ;)
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Trust you to get that little (no) dig in at the end!
Ha ha! No offence intended - I'm sure i would be digging a lot more if I were back in the Midlands with the clay until I had broken a couple of spades getting enough manure and compost in the mix. The soil I have is sandy so I would need a shovel rather than a spade. One thing I miss about the Midlands is the fertility of clay.
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3 courgettes, bag of dwarf french beans & runner beans, kale and swiss chard. Couple of punnets of blackberries from the allotment sites. Also bag of dandelion leaves for the chickens.
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Giant beetroot, dwarf beans and broccoli.
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First year for growing tomatoes and can't believe how long I've had to wait for ripe tomatoes (Polytunnel grown/Lancs) but today I brought home 3lbs of Marmande that have ripened on the vine and 3lbs of green (requested by friend for tomato jam). Also picked some green Ailsa Craig to ripen at home in a bag with bananas.
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First year for growing tomatoes and can't believe how long I've had to wait for ripe tomatoes
Me too rozalia! I've only had about 5 :lol: :lol: out of the polytunnel and a friend in England who grew them outside in tubs has given away bags of them :wacko:
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Dribble.
'nuff said.
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YAY the mildew didn't get'em then?
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There's just a little bit, but it's not badly affected the crop.
Already had quite a few off, some have made it home as you can see. It took great resolve though!
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There's just a little bit, but it's not badly affected the crop.
Already had quite a few off, some have made it home as you can see. It took great resolve though!
Those peas looked good enough to eat - made my mouth water. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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A 7lb 6 and a bit oz, butternut.
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wow DD that's a whopper :ohmy: got about 10 on my plot, nothing of that size tho!
Just back from the lottie with; potatoes, that's the last of them dug up, two cauliflowers, broccoli, runner beans, french beans, sungold toms, three cucumbers.
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Not sure how many's lurking, as I've got a canopy of leaves covering a large area. Needed one for the harvest festival at the weekend, and it's the first one I came to - there might not be any others for all I know!Iit's not quite as ripe as I would have liked, but I'll leave instructions!
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You forgot to take the Tesco label off it DD! :tongue2: ::) :lol:
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Do you seriously think I could afford their prices?
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My mini harvest from my mini plot today. 2 Summer Ball pumpkins, 2 courgettes, my first leek and parsnip (ever) a bunch of late sown carrots and a handful of the last cherry toms.
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that look fab mosslane :)
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Thanks BigB, I only have a little plot at home, about 8ft by 22ft and it is the first time I have grown leeks or parsnips so really pleased. Had a good crop of the staples, Onions, spuds, garlic and considering only one courgette plant grew we have had plenty of fruit of it, roughly 2 a week at least. The summer ball plants are great as well.
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My courgettes seem to have got their second wind - have picked four for dinner. Do not know how much longer they will last as according to the BBC we are about to have some cold weather.
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Not long, I hope. :lol:
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i picked my pumpkin, acorn squash, beans, pattypan, and a sunflower :)
and watched the sun set in the freeeeezzzin cold :ohmy:
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Im not too sure when to pick my Pumpkins,the foliage has drooped and going yellow!I have some pattypan squash again the leaves are on their way but the pattinsons are very small :(
We picked the last 8 kilo's of beans yesterday though the remainder are bound to be too large,I was thinking of letting them go on so I have some seed for next year :)
Heaps of ripe tomatoes and much more which are still very green! and we pulled the last of our King Edwards!yummy!
there are still hundreds of peppers and chilli's yet to ripen,not sure what to do here as was my first attemp!
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Today we picked 3 courgettes, 4 cucumber, 2 lettuce, a carrier of french and runner beans, 1 parsnip just for a look, 6 beetroot and some autumn rhubarb.
:D
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This is a pic from what we got from our allotment 2 weeks ago....
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Wonderful. Did you put a pic in the competition? :)
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Pulled up some fab 'purple haze' carrots, will be growing a lot more of them next year!
French beand are doing well too but we're due frosts here soon so I guess these are the last pickings.
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Still digging potatoes, a few courgettes, carrots, parsnips, beetroot and rather leathery runners :D
Hard to believe but everything is a bit dry !!
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Beans,tomatoes, cucumber, lettuce, nasturtiums and herbs. And sweet peas.
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Bowl full of the last raspberrys
last of the runner beans
and a soon to be picked shop bought size cabbage :happy:
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Runner beans White Lady a trial planted late well worth anaother go
Peas Ambassador waiting to taste these
Swedes Invitation no sign of clubrot and seem to be slug resistant well worth growing.
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Runner beans White Lady a trial planted late well worth anaother go
Peas Ambassador waiting to taste these
Swedes Invitation no sign of clubrot and seem to be slug resistant well worth growing.
I stuck in a few White Lady also rather late - they're still growing with not a bad crop - not sure I'd plant too many of them though.
Swede.... thanks for that info... will try next year. :)
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Not much harvested, except a load of nettle roots since I'm finally clearing the rough end of my plot. Also a load of buried fertilizer bags, a rusting metal panel, broken glass and what appears to be the remains of a greenhouse. :(
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Picked a final few runner beans, chrysanthemums and pinks, beetroot and carrots.. Nice to take something home when you can. ;)
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Carrots and runners. :D :D :D
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A 4lb 2oz courgette!
(Now what am I going to do?) :unsure:
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More runner beans and a carrot.
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Really is the last of the runner beans, picked the last of the toms so yhe greenhouse can be emptied, kale.
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runner beans , a shed full :D
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They seem a bit special at this time of year :happy:
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Wow!! Wonderful Spana ...... very special :)
I'm getting a few more carrots & courgettes, parsnips & tomatoes. Wonder why I didn't plant leeks this year ???
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Picked another 3llbs toms made some cream of tom soup lovely :)
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Brought this nuttybut squash home to ripen.
You'll have to take my word that it weighs in at 11 1/2lb. Had to use the bathroom scales and the display won't stay on long enough for a piccie!
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Looks incredibly shiny! Did you polish it DD? :unsure:
(Hope it tastes better than my 4lb 2oz "courgette" which finished up in the compost bin; a bit like eating expanded polystyrene but much more disappointing!) :(
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It's wet from the rain we're not having today.
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We pulled a parsnip :D and chopped up it filled my spud pan :blink:
We came home ith another 12 crown prince, ermm anyone know a good chutney that would use 30 of them :ohmy:
also picked 5 turnips and sat looking at how sad and empty it all looks :(
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You could make parsnip wine :happy: I made some years ago ..... it was like a good medium sherry :D
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Picked a few rasberries :tongue2:
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For this year's harvest, please refer to this link.
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=72908.0