What a whoppa

sclarke624 · « **on:** June 20, 2007, 01:09 »

Grew this Calabrese, germinated it in mid march and cut today. Thought I had better cut it in case it went to seed. It seems much bigger than it should be but never grown 'em before so don't know. It was 10" across.

OH holding the calabrese and a spring onion.

tasted good as well OH eats all his veg raw YUK!! Yes all, brussel sprouts, calabrese, cabbage, I boiled my bit of calbrese.

crowndale · « **Reply #1 on:** June 20, 2007, 09:07 »

Impressive. I thought it took several months to get to that size! No. 2 son would eat all his veges raw too quite happily but tends to get them stir fried or lightly boiled, we like them crispy but hot through.

emmalm · « **Reply #2 on:** June 20, 2007, 09:22 »

Looks good!

I'm another one who has most vegetables raw, can't stand calabrese or cauliflower even lightly stirfried, has to be raw.

Little Miss Muffet · « **Reply #3 on:** June 20, 2007, 09:57 »

sure looks good.

agapanthus · « **Reply #4 on:** June 20, 2007, 11:23 »

Well done!

mum of 3 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 20, 2007, 13:08 »

wow that looks a good size

SkipRat · « **Reply #6 on:** June 20, 2007, 13:55 »

Blimey it is a whopper, well done hope mine grow to that size as calabrese is one of my favourite veggies, I could eat it everyday..

sclarke624 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 20, 2007, 14:25 »

Thankyou my friends, I am now strutting my stuff so to speak.

by the way variety Belstar by T&M.

Little Miss Muffet · « **Reply #8 on:** June 20, 2007, 14:45 »

Thankyou my friends, I am now strutting my stuff so to speak.

what are you going to do with it you have to cook something special for a thing that big

sclarke624 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 20, 2007, 16:15 »

The old man loves salad, he has calabrese on his salad raw, he has salad 5 nights of the week. Also he has Type 2 diabetis so salad good for weight control. I will have it boiled. Believe it or not I have grown all this stuff but I hate salad, lettuce does nothing for me at all, radish yuk!, salad onions ok, carrott ok, rocket ..revolting stuff, herbs too strong for me, tats ok.

Think it grew that big as the raised bed was new and full of multi purpose compost and couple of bags of farmyard manure, unfortunately the richness of the soil though didn't agree with the carrots which are so forked, twisted and curled like a rattle snake they make peeling impossible almost and I have two different kinds in and they don't taste nicer than supermarket ones. Radishes didn't do so well either and they are supposed to be easy. Rads very small and take ages to grow.

shaun · « **Reply #10 on:** June 20, 2007, 19:06 »

nice calabrese there clarke my heads are just starting to form you have to be quick with them cus they just bolt for the love of it ,they are lovely raw
check these yokes out my best yet dont know whats happened, last year they were no bigger than my fist

frazzy · « **Reply #11 on:** June 20, 2007, 22:38 »

ew the one top middle looks mouldy

no seriously Shaun there wonderful yours too Sheila.

sclarke624 · « **Reply #12 on:** June 21, 2007, 00:47 »

They're a good size an'all shaun, must be a good year for the brassica's

milkman · « **Reply #13 on:** June 21, 2007, 11:21 »

aren't those the ones munty was looking for that had been nicked from his patch? :shock:

shaun · « **Reply #14 on:** June 21, 2007, 21:15 »

Quote from: "milkman"

aren't those the ones munty was looking for that had been nicked from his patch? :shock:

dont be silly milklady muntys are bound to bigger than mine :roll: