Lesley Posted September 3, 2010 Share Posted September 3, 2010 The red cookers I know of are Charles Ross or Howgate. Howgates are a dual cooker/eater and can be green with some red or quite red as they become older. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted September 3, 2010 Share Posted September 3, 2010 This is a very lighweight but quite large apple with a rough skin, it is quite dry textured too. I love to eat most cooking apples, I love Bramleys raw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted September 4, 2010 Share Posted September 4, 2010 bramley apple do go partly red when left to ripen properly on the tree they also get quite big bramleys in the shops have been pick early and any showing red are disguarded.shop brought bramleys can also be up to a year old as they can be cold stored for longer if picked early could also be Blenheim Orange Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 Today we're picking.................giant puffballs! ...and all the usual suspects......courgettes are nearly finished! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 You and your Puffballs More runner beans and more cherry toms with a few sweet peas for a vase Also, an apple (Scrumptious) for ES packed lunch and my elevenses VERY windy here in Cheshire - I hope the rest of the tomatoes do not get blown off the plants Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted September 8, 2010 Author Share Posted September 8, 2010 This little lot! And that is not including 6 huge Beefsteaks I grew especially for the hens to eat The large plum toms are called Roma & they have been a huge success for me this year. they taste divine However my favourites are still the tiny golden Sungolds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 Those are all my favourites as well Sarah! - although we eat the beefsteaks! More hops to dry and damsons to process today. I have some courgettes which have been affected by the cold nights so I'll have to do something with them quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 We have a plum tomato called Juliette, and it has given us masses of fruits, mostly just over an inch long. They are lovely for both eating raw and for cooking, they also stay on the plant for a long time without splitting. The plant itself is like a triffid. I have never seen a tomoato plant with so many trusses of quality fruit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 Apples, apples and more apples! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted September 9, 2010 Share Posted September 9, 2010 6 sacks of potatoes. Our spuds are huge this year, but we have had problems with rats tunneling under the rows and eating the potatoes from underneath, we must have put about a sack of potatoes on the compost heap so far . The rat population on our allotments must be getting quite big. I think we need a word with the powers that be. We also picked 10 huge courgettes, I thought that they were slowing down. a swede and some raspberries. We are off to get the rest of the potatoes this evening, hopefully the rats won't have got to them yet. We are usually self sufficient in potatoes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted September 9, 2010 Author Share Posted September 9, 2010 Those are all my favourites as well Sarah! - although we eat the beefsteaks! I should explain. They are freebie plants my neighbour always gives us (Hubby cannot say no ), his son sent some seeds from Australia. They are HUGE friuts,but utterly mushy & tasteless, so they are my dedicated hen tommos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted September 9, 2010 Share Posted September 9, 2010 I love making beefsteak tomatoes into pasta sauce, because they don't have too many seeds, plus I love them fried or grilled with bacon and egg I have just made a huge ragu, with loads of tomatoes, peppers, courgettes, onions, carrots, and a small chilli, all home grown. It has got meat in it too but unfortunately that had to be bought. Lasagna for tea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted September 9, 2010 Author Share Posted September 9, 2010 You can't make anything with these...believe me,I have tried 2k of crab Apples here today. Will be making a jelly of some sort at the weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubereglu Posted September 9, 2010 Share Posted September 9, 2010 A big pile of beans and tomatoes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted September 10, 2010 Share Posted September 10, 2010 Another 8 hessian sacks of huge potatoes . The Picasso potatoes are enormous this year, more like boulders, one potato feeds 5 for mash I think friends and family will be getting some spuds this year, I had already promised some to my Grandad. I also picked a cabbage and my dry Borlotti beans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJChick Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 Today I've picked loads of these lovely cooking apples. We've made one batch of chutney already, more to come I think. Wind and rain forecast here tomorrow so we thought better to pick them now and store them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Lots of hops for the top of the kitchen cupboards. It's been the best year ever - huge they are. Unfortunately it's been too brilliant for it's own good and completely cut the light from the kitchen - and now we can seeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Also toms, beans and more apples. I've finished planting the leeks and OH has done the garlic. Almost time to sit back and get the quilting out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 I've picked two tomatoes and a cucumber. I won't post a pic My first ever cucumber , and it has grown outside in the yard. My tomatoes have been abysmal this year so I hope to get stuck into growing next year. Looks like I will have at least one winter strawberry. My plants have started flowering again and there's one decent sized green fruit developing Valkyrie, are hops easy to grow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Blinking weed it is! Sets runners and because the root is well set down by the pergola pillar it's hard to chop it back too much. It's a golden one and supposed to be ornamental, but it still smells the same, just a lighter green shade in colour. If you are thinking of getting one - stick it where it can hide something or won't cause too many problems. We have light in our kitchen now and OH said oooh I didn't know we had a garden out there! This year the hop has reached the top guttering! I bought it to intermingle with Madame Alfred Carriere rose - which also goes bonkers - leaf and stem wise, bit frugal with the flowers. The idea there was to have nice smelling roses underneath the bedroom window. Hah! We get pigeons nesting in there - or trying to. Never mind, I also have some jasmine for good measure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Thanks for that I'm thinking of a present, do you grow it from seed or a plant? Edited to add: I'll start another thread, so this one keeps on track Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squidsin Posted September 22, 2010 Share Posted September 22, 2010 I'll be picking more tomatoes later. I've had an amazing year for tomatoes this year - I've only grown cherry ones this year, apart from one heritage variety that produced one huge green tomato that refused to ripen, even on the windowsil and that's it! The only problem is that my toddler son is fascinated with them and will harvest them all, including the green ones, if left alone with them for even a second! Later in the week I will be harvesting squash and courgettes and more tomatoes and perpetual spinach. Those have all done really well. My broad beans were mainly killed off by blackfly and my spuds got blight, and my lettuce and rocket has been a disaster, but on balance, I am really proud of my first six months of allotment 'owner'ship! It's been a learning process but a productive one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted September 23, 2010 Share Posted September 23, 2010 French beans, runner beans, tomatoes and a few more apples. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted September 23, 2010 Share Posted September 23, 2010 Some apples, lettuce, land cress, tomatoes, peppers, cucumber. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 today's haul... the sweetcorn was on a plate and covered in butter and pepper within 10 minutes! http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6628888&l=7a1e64b2d5&id=568396756 http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6628889&l=a13b7f1b07&id=568396756 http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6628890&l=7febae6ccc&id=568396756 2 nice big marrows in there, will be making more marrow butter for some more yummy tarts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted September 27, 2010 Share Posted September 27, 2010 A good crop there Poet We picked on Saturday carrots swede raspberries parsnips cabbage brocolli courgettes 3 butternut squash not quite ripe but can't risk the frost. and 42 pumpkins from one plant They are grapefruit sized and really lovely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
