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 Topic: Plums |
Shan
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 Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Wed Aug 15, 18 7:01 am Subject: Plums |
I tend to make up my recipes as I go along.  |
| Topic: Plums |
Shan
Replies: 13
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Fri Aug 10, 18 11:13 am Subject: Plums |
| I could imgine a greengage sauce spiced with green cardmom, ginger and fennel seeds. Would go rather well with goose and duck. |
| Topic: Plums |
Shan
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Fri Aug 10, 18 7:14 am Subject: Plums |
| We have 2 plum trees and 1 damson. All of them completely covered in fruit this year. Unfortunately, one of the plum trees has had 90% of its branches break. I would have thought the heaviness of the ... |
| Topic: Plums |
Shan
Replies: 13
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Aug 09, 18 7:15 pm Subject: Plums |
plum sauce freezes well.
if you go the full hoi sin it keeps for several years in a larder
I make mine with brown sugar, loads of rice vinegar, onion, garlic, dash of chilli flakes, Chinese 5 sp ... |
| Topic: Plums |
Shan
Replies: 13
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Aug 09, 18 7:13 pm Subject: Plums |
Any suggestions for slightly icky or unripe plums?
Somebody didn't thin them out enough & we've had a branch full snap off...
Plum sauce is good for unripe plums. The tartness of the plums balan ... |
| Topic: Plums |
Shan
Replies: 13
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Aug 09, 18 4:01 pm Subject: Plums |
I have processed 2 buckets of plums and made:
Plum sauce
Plum sorbet
Dehydrated plums
Yes, I'm feeling smug. |
| Topic: Rose Bush |
Shan
Replies: 3
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Tue Jul 24, 18 6:13 pm Subject: Rose Bush |
I must be doing something right because the damn thing doubles in size every year.  Reminds me of 'Little House of Horrors'. |
| Topic: Rose Bush |
Shan
Replies: 3
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Tue Jul 24, 18 11:12 am Subject: Rose Bush |
Just finished trimming back and shredding the cuttings from 1 of the many rose bushes. Let's just say, it fought back!
I don't know if anyone else does it but I find, I end up having a second flush ... |
| Topic: For those of you with a Pool |
Shan
Replies: 24
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Fri Jul 20, 18 2:27 pm Subject: For those of you with a Pool |
I should have known I could count on you for an explanation.  |
| Topic: For those of you with a Pool |
Shan
Replies: 24
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Fri Jul 20, 18 7:26 am Subject: For those of you with a Pool |
| I've been using the Avon Skin so Soft Dry oil and I have been fairly bite free. It's got citronella in it, which I actually hate the smell off but for some reason it doesn't smell like citronella... a ... |
| Topic: For those of you with a Pool |
Shan
Replies: 24
Views: 1356
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Thu Jul 19, 18 3:29 pm Subject: For those of you with a Pool |
| A Plague of Journalists would be even worse. A pox on the lot of them! |
| Topic: For those of you with a Pool |
Shan
Replies: 24
Views: 1356
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Thu Jul 19, 18 8:20 am Subject: For those of you with a Pool |
| I know! What on earth is their purpose? There have been loads of horseflies this year - both in the UK and Portugal! Evil creatures! |
| Topic: For those of you with a Pool |
Shan
Replies: 24
Views: 1356
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Wed Jul 18, 18 7:38 am Subject: For those of you with a Pool |
| Everything plays its part (although I have no compunction about murdering midges and mosquitos). |
| Topic: Folks, A trick I learned for growing green onions/scallions |
Shan
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Tue Jul 17, 18 7:19 pm Subject: Folks, A trick I learned for growing green onions/scallions |
| Flowers are also rather nice sprinkled on top of a soup. |
| Topic: For those of you with a Pool |
Shan
Replies: 24
Views: 1356
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Tue Jul 17, 18 1:00 pm Subject: For those of you with a Pool |
| I'm not all that keen on wasps but I don't like seeing anything drown. |
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