Christian Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 Lots of cherry tomatoes and a handful of onions, ready for drying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 My onions are drying on the conservatory wall in front of me at the moment and they look lovely ! I've picked cherry tomatoes and blueberries today - just enough blueberries to make a batch of blueberry and apricot muffins . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 Sweetcorn straight from the garden into the microwave - yummy and sweet, best I've done for years. Variety "Early Extra Sweet". This year instead of thinning out the weaker plant, I kept them together (noticed the farmers hadn't thinned theirs out) and planted in between peas and French beans, then underplanted with red clover - seems to have worked - plus the weather was kinder to the veg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 Oooh yum!! Fresh sweetcorn is divine - lucky you ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 Well done you , ours is a few weeks away yet. Having said that we have got rather a lot of it this year, so I'd better make some room in the freezer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 Didn't do too many this year due to past failures, but hopefully cracked it now, so won't have any left for freezer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Courgettes (AGAIN) x 2 A bucket full of shallots... drying out on the conservatory floor at the moment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Onions but having to freeze them - seems to be a problem here lately several of which have identity crisis thinking they are shallots and have split into pairs. I think some other variety sneaked into the Jet Set package - last year I had lots of puny ones that almost escaped the netting, lots of mouldy ones, one silverskin type and a couple of empty peanut shells. I complained and received another bag of sets. I think I'll try another source next year. More toms - getting fed up now. Courgette/marrow cake thumbs up from OH, too strong banana flavour for DD. Son went to Alton Towers and missed the goodies. More beans and peas for the seeds. Some have been munched and here is the culprit: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Awwwww!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Definitely female - I looked! Oh well, you can look too! Here's another she looks a bit podgy and she has been collecting leaves and dragging them through the lavender bush and shooting down that hole: I really wanted lizards and slow worms in the walling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 (edited) Edited to delete blooming copy - won't let me delete this bit! Edited August 7, 2008 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Sorry - don't know what happened there, the first time it said Photobucket had deleted the first pic. I hate technology!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 1 large courgette loads of small tomatos very sweet a jug full of lovely Cobra climbing french beans, once they start there is no stopping them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 i large courgette/small marrow How is they go from small to massive in the blink of an eye? 2.5 kilos of Charlotte salad spuds 2.5 kilos of second earlies too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 It's all the rain's fault, Cinnamon! I've got a couple of big courgettes that I must attack when it stops before they do the marrow thing. We've been filling up the water in the greenhouse butt and eating Sungolds on the hoof - just about to have sweetcorn for lunch. Yummmmm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WitchHazel Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 My first corn cob...and I ate it raw! We decided to try growing sweetcorn for the first time. A little while ago, I heard Bob Flowerdew on Gardeners Question Time say that you could eat corn on the cob raw, if you did it as soon as you picked it. He said that once it had been picked for an hour, the sugars would already be turning to starch and it wouldn't be good raw. But eating it immediately it would be delicious. Well, DH brought in a corn cob for me to see if it was ripe. on impulse I took a little nibble, and my goodness, it was *de-licious*. I ate the whole thing, much to DH's amazement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 That sounds lovely. You don't get better than freshly picked veg and fruit, do you. Who knows how long things sit on supermarket shelves before we buy them. Homegrown knocks spots of everything! We've picked peas, runner beans, french beans, a courgette and a handful of rainbow chard leaves for Sunday dinner. Can't wait! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WitchHazel Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 Sad day today. We picked the last of the cucumbers, and then cut down the plants (they were starting to look unhappy). Also piucked: another load of courgettes, including one which is more of a marrow. I'm going to bake it and have it with my beef casserole for dinner. Yet more tomatoes, which are being roasted as I speak, ready to turn into passata. And 2 manky corncobs, which we're going to give to the chickens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 WitchHazel: Yet more tomatoes, which are being roasted as I speak, ready to turn into passata Oooooooh, love anything that uses up toms - are yours the plum variety or will any do, and can you post the recipe on the "All things nice" section? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 Several handfuls of potato and a few cherry toms Some onions lifted for drying too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 Lucky Christian - we haven't done spuddies this year so I am missing looking for buried treasure. If you ever get a chance, try Cherie, they are red (second early I think) but very tasty and high yielding. Ideal for salads and if they get bigger are lovely roasted too. Not good for mash if I remember rightly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 bucket load of remaining anya and donation from friend potato wise three cucumbers... two green and one yellow one.... another courgette 4 cabbages destined for the freezer more runner beans to eat and for the freezer .. some very unusual shaped carrots... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WitchHazel Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 WitchHazel: Yet more tomatoes, which are being roasted as I speak, ready to turn into passata Oooooooh, love anything that uses up toms - are yours the plum variety or will any do, and can you post the recipe on the "All things nice" section? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease? Thank you for that Koojie. We use whatever tomatoes we have, as long as they are well flavoured and ripe. (So far it's been large eating tomatoes and chrry tomatoes; the plum tomatoes are only just ripening now). I've posted the info in the "All things nice" section. I hope you try it and like it! It's such an easy thing to do, and so wonderful - especially once autumn and winter are here; hm passata brings back all the falvours and smells of summer! I thoroughly recommend investing in a tomato machine, which will cost about £25. We tried it with sieves etc the first year (many years ago) and it was miserable. So much work. But the passata machine is really quick, and very easy to clean afterwars. I've put a link to it in the info, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Thank you so much WH - last year had poor results with germination but enough for a few, but this year too many and I gave plants away! I like the idea of the gadget too, not going to tell OH though ! Regards, Kerry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 4 cabbages destined for the freezer Tips on freezing cabbage please? Does it work oK? We have 4 lovely ones which are going to end up as chook food otherwise and they are geting a bit bored with cabbage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
