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Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16186

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 16 7:28 am Post subject:
Look good. I was given a patty pan squash today. One of the men who helps at the food bank brought a lot of runner beans, some beetroot, marrows and squashes for us volunteers. He grows them on his allotment. So far I have managed potatoes and a few sugar peas. The blackberries are coming on though, and I picked enough yesterday to have with some strawberries and ice cream.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16186

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 16 6:28 am Post subject:
Went out into the garden yesterday evening and the smell of the buddhlia was amazing.

Woo

Joined: 19 Sep 2011
Posts: 787
Location: Mayenne, Pays de Loire

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 16 2:11 pm Post subject:
We were given a basket full of mirrabelles yesterday by our lovely neighbour. today they are jam, stewed spiced plums, vanilla stewed plums ready for the store cupboard and freezer and a plum cake for tea. I'm a bit warm now... its 40 degrees on the monitor and the pool looks tempting despite being full of noisy beasties.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 43742
Location: yes

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 16 7:53 pm Post subject:
i read that as nosy beetles which could be far more intrusive than noisy ones

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16186

Posted: Sun Aug 28, 16 5:37 am Post subject:
I managed to get mange tout peas and kale for dinner. Doesn't sound much, but with the way my garden has grown this year, it is amazing.

Woo

Joined: 19 Sep 2011
Posts: 787
Location: Mayenne, Pays de Loire

Posted: Sun Aug 28, 16 7:44 am Post subject:

dpack wrote:

i read that as nosy beetles which could be far more intrusive than noisy ones

they are nosy though!

Sherbs

Joined: 27 Apr 2007
Posts: 1931
Location: Swansea

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 16 11:07 pm Post subject:
My chilli plants are absolutely bursting with chillis this year, I can't keep up with picking them and we can't eat that much chilli so I think some people are going to be getting chilli oil for Christmas

Woo

Joined: 19 Sep 2011
Posts: 787
Location: Mayenne, Pays de Loire

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 16 6:55 am Post subject:

Sherbs wrote:

My chilli plants are absolutely bursting with chillis this year, I can't keep up with picking them and we can't eat that much chilli so I think some people are going to be getting chilli oil for Christmas

they freeze well, not that chilli oil isn't great. I still have bag from 3 years ago which I dip into and grate into food from frozen.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16186

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 16 7:16 am Post subject:
My kale is still producing gently, we have had a couple (and I mean just a couple) of runner beans, and the odd handful of mange tout peas. The sprouting broccoli has finally started to grow, so although I am not expecting much through the winter, we will have some of our own veg.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 9004
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 16 8:01 pm Post subject:
The Tuscan Cavolo Nero kale is doing very well in the raised bed..quite closely planted, thankfully in this wind! Looking forward to overwintering leeks too. We're pleasantly surprised at how much we've had from two 6'x3'beds and one metre square bed.

Sherbs

Joined: 27 Apr 2007
Posts: 1931
Location: Swansea

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 16 9:56 pm Post subject:

Woo wrote:

Sherbs wrote:

they freeze well, not that chilli oil isn't great. I still have bag from 3 years ago which I dip into and grate into food from frozen.

Thanks for this suggestion, I was thinking of drying them but maybe now I think I might freeze some instead

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16186

Posted: Sat Sep 24, 16 7:39 am Post subject:
I tried the other sort of kale last year, but didn't like it as much as curly and it was no better at overwintering, so have gone back to curly this year. I have a few leeks in, but they didn't do very well, and son dropping some branches on them not noticing they were there didn't help much either.

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6656
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Sat Sep 24, 16 11:09 am Post subject:

Mistress Rose wrote:

I tried the other sort of kale last year, but didn't like it as much as curly and it was no better at overwintering, so have gone back to curly this year. I have a few leeks in, but they didn't do very well, and son dropping some branches on them not noticing they were there didn't help much either.

If by the "other kale" you mean a toscano variety, we grow it exclusively. Much better for making smoothies in the morning!

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 43742
Location: yes

Posted: Sat Sep 24, 16 12:36 pm Post subject:
my idea of a morning smoothy goes like this 500gm fresh tomatoes ,frozen to -5 c dash worcester sauce dash angastura bitters tsp fresh grated horseradish 300ml good vodka,chilled to 3 c blend,pour. a basil leaf decoration is optional.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 43742
Location: yes

Posted: Sat Sep 24, 16 12:37 pm Post subject:
for a citrus alternative shamalamas are pretty good first thing

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