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Melanie
Jul 31st, 2007, 04:09 PM
Thanks cedarblue! ^.^ Grew them in a greenhouse and for a bit outside (a couple of days) as the weather has been nice =]
Tibetan Snake
Aug 1st, 2007, 11:33 PM
Dug more holes, mooved more chalk.
cedarblue
Aug 12th, 2007, 04:20 PM
harvested some sweetcorn today and finally my toms are going red, yellow and purple.
have picked 3 large cues and many courgettes.
emmapresley
Aug 12th, 2007, 06:42 PM
oooh, everyone is so productive :D
i have a couple of blokes coming to get my garden into some sort of manageable state in the next few weeks..:o i'm afraid after all this procrastination, i stll can't face it. i am still composting though..and a peek inside the bin shows that it's really rotted down amazingly!!
hopefully when it's a lot more managable i can start getting interested and sorted for growing some stuff :)
cedarblue
Sep 2nd, 2007, 03:14 PM
phew - i guess no-one has been in their garden since aug 12th!
today i pulled up the tomato plants that either have rot due to the amount of rain we have had or potato blight, i have to research both problems.
i harvested parsnips, round carrots, pink fir apple potatoes and onion which we had for lunch, the only non-home produced items on the plate were some stuffing and gravy!! yum yum:)
i have pulled my onions and strung them up in the kitchen - note to self, next year grow more onions! - red and white, and shallots.
pulled up empty corn plants (the cob were just delicious!) and harvested apples from tree from which husband made an apple, pecan and caramel tart.
also been digging up a very old rose bush which had a root system on it 4" across! :eek:
Marrers
Sep 3rd, 2007, 12:59 AM
I think this is the first year I don't have any tomato plants.
We have two small newish apple trees. One has several small apples on it which are quite tasty. The other has just one quite large one which doesn't seem 'loose' yet so I'm leaving it to grow some more. Is this the right thing to do?
Tibetan Snake
Sep 3rd, 2007, 08:29 PM
Ither witch way. If you leev it it can only get tastyer. If you pick it now it may tast tart then I'd serjest steeming it for a small puding. Keep the tree waterd so the frute stays as long as posible. What is the name of the tree? ( Jerry Ha Ha Ha )Some are early some are mid seeson and some are late pickers. It depends on what ya got.
I have a very old tree that has been dropping frute for some time now ( to dry ) and the pips are still white. Thees I steem and mix with Blackburrys ( of witch I'v picked 7 kg so far ) The Coxes Orange Pipen did have two fruts on it. One the woodlice got to after it had an open woond from tuching a leef, and the other droped way to early to be eaten ( to dry ). Me gona proon the old tree realy good this Autom.
Tibetan Snake
Sep 3rd, 2007, 08:33 PM
[quote=cedarblue;355253]phew - i guess no-one has been in their garden since aug 12th!
To bizzy in the garden to go on tinternet.
tipsy
Sep 3rd, 2007, 11:04 PM
cedar, absolutly adorable slugs!
my lillies arent dooing to well in the hot weather ive had latley :( but my tomatos love it!
cedarblue
Sep 4th, 2007, 02:50 PM
[QUOTE=Tibetan Snake;355820To bizzy in the garden to go on tinternet.[/QUOTE]
touche!!
auntierozzi
Sep 4th, 2007, 06:42 PM
It's great to hear about all your produce everybody! Our kale has come through really well and some little cabbages. We have quite a few things that seem to have have sprouted out of the compost! I didn't plant any beetroot but have quite a few and one really big one I picked today....How could that happen? We also have lots of quite big tomato plants sprouting out of one empty composter, they look pretty good but we didn't plant them either!!
cobweb
Sep 4th, 2007, 06:46 PM
my cucumbers are brilliant, averaging 1 or 2 a week off a couple of plants grown from seed, wish i'd grown more! :)
auntierozzi
Sep 4th, 2007, 06:50 PM
You could make a cucumber and avocado lassi
1/2 small cucumber
fresh mint, chopped
1/2 avocado, mashed
50 ml soya yoghurt
Juice the cucumber and pour into blender. Add fresh mint, avocado, soya yog.
Blend and serve decorated with mint sprig and slices of cucumber...
I've never had one of these but was just looking at the recipe and thought it might be good!
veganbikerboy
Sep 23rd, 2007, 01:32 PM
just dug up some fantastic carrotts:D
can you eat the carrott tops?
i'll re-phrase that, i've just eaten a cartrott top, am i gonna die?:eek:
Risker
Sep 23rd, 2007, 01:43 PM
Yes, it'll take a while though, and a lot of screaming
cedarblue
Sep 23rd, 2007, 02:14 PM
dug up some parsnips, carrots & onion & leek for lunch today
[cornish pasties;mince, carrots, leek, onion, garlic with roast parsnips avec maple syrup, steamed brocolli, roast spuds, mints sauce, gravy YUM]
cleared out the dead sweetcorn canes, took up the dead brocolli plants though there are some still sprouting from roun the main spear which was cut off.
repotted my small bay tree [7"] into bigger pot.
harvested two more cucumbers.
amazed to see the butternut squash patch, which i thought had had it due to slug damage, displaying 3 biggish squash and half a dozen biddy ones too! :)
furrytips
Sep 23rd, 2007, 02:59 PM
Hi VBB
As far as i know, carrot tops are completely harmless. I've eaten them before with no ill effects. Even eating a bit of soil covering the carrot is actually quite beneficial (as long as its not chemically treated, or had fresh manure put on) Fertile soil contains a certain amount of naturally occurring B12.
Hope this helps
cedarblue
Sep 23rd, 2007, 05:16 PM
vbb, do you mean the tops of the carrot or the carrot top greens??
veganbikerboy
Sep 24th, 2007, 07:49 PM
i have been eating the leaves from the green bit. apparantly they are ok but high in pottasium so you shouldnt consume too many. i think they're very nice:D
(and the bit you're supposed to eat are fantastic:))
cedarblue
Sep 24th, 2007, 07:53 PM
i know people who use the green tops in green smoothies and they seem ok!
furrytips
Sep 24th, 2007, 09:46 PM
The only thing i have grown this year is parsley on my kitchen window sill. As fast as i eat it , it grows back, which is good. I miss not having a garden and allotment since i moved to the flat i am in, but i have put my name down for an allotment in this area. They are more popular in this part of Surrey though, so might have to wait quite a while. Still, at least my mum gives me some of her produce when i visit her, the last time i came back from hers, i was loaded down with tomatoes, swiss chard and homemade plum jam, which is yummy. My daughters (11 and 3) loved the allotment we had, i think its great for kids to grow their own veggies, they would eat stuff they wouldn't touch normally, because they had planted it and watched it grow (peas straight from the pod to the mouth, raspberries, radishes etc) Our fingers are crossed for a plot for next spring.
phoenix rising
Sep 30th, 2007, 07:50 PM
today i picked apples and blackberries from my garden, to make a crumble.
also cut my herbs, sage, rosemary, chives, thyme, pepper mint, corsican mint, nasturshums, garlic, lemon balm. however the harvest is tainted with sadness as my garden is being dug up this week to be levelled off and landscaped. it's a shame as all the plants look so lovely and most of them will be gone by the end of the week :(
i know the landscaping needs to be done as the garden is so hard to manage at the moment.
i've just been tying white ribbons around the really precious plants that i want to keep :(:o
cedarblue
Oct 1st, 2007, 10:33 AM
mmmmmm blackberry & apple crumble - i think i'll make that later!!
hopefully you will be able to work with the garden when its been done in terms of herbs, fruit, veggies pheonix rising?
more carrots, onions & parsnips from garden yesterday for roast dinner.
my jerusalem artichoke buds are starting to open, i've heard the flowers are similar to sunflowers.
phoenix rising
Oct 1st, 2007, 09:47 PM
hopefully you will be able to work with the garden when its been done in terms of herbs, fruit, veggies pheonix rising?
i hope so. also building a wildlife area and a pond to encourage frogs and dragonflys :D
my jerusalem artichoke buds are starting to open, i've heard the flowers are similar to sunflowers.
yes they're a lovely bright addition to an autumn garden. The seed heads should attract lots of finches and other song birds too :)
veganbikerboy
Oct 2nd, 2007, 10:13 AM
my jerusalem artichoke buds are starting to open, i've heard the flowers are similar to sunflowers.
yes mine are just opening too. they are like sunflowers but not quite as big. Mine are huge this year, must be at least 10ft tall:)
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