Topic: Wonderful day, sigh...!

[undercarriage plan]

I pootled off to the lottie this pm and I harvested celery, toms, poatoes (pink fir! Weird..!), runner beans, dwarf purple beans and beetroot! Begins to sound like drinking rhyme!! Msuic please, Derek!!  What a wonderful feeling!! Happy Bunny  ;D ;D ;D Lottie

[Derekthefox]

Pink fir Apple already? I dont normally harvest mine until October !

As for the music lottie, you have a whole cd's worth already !  :D

This time of year makes up for all the hard work anyway, glad your harvest is plentiful !

[tim]

Wagging its tail!  I can hear the music from here.

Amazingly early for Celery - how did you do it?

And Pink Fir? Normally harvest from September?? (Sorry - Derek beat me to that)

[dibberxxx]

No 2 step today then lottie around the carrots just haversting weldone , hard work does pay off  ;) ;)

[undercarriage plan]

I don't know how I did it, to be honest!!!! Celery I started off early in the conservatory, pink fir, just planted and prayed!! Never had then before, they bizarre!!! And frisky ;) Lottie  ;D

[Jill]

My pink firs are only just flowering and like Tim won't be touching them before September.  Have you dug up the whole lot 'cos reckon you'd get more weird and wonderful  ;) shapes if you wait a bit longer.  Well done tho', Lottie.

[Derekthefox]

This is my second year with pink fir, they make a gorgeous salad potato late into the autumn, so waxy. They also are gorgeous split lengthways and fried as chips. Our kids have even eaten them cold! The only down side is when they go rotten - the smell is just disgusting ! Hope you have enough to enjoy many meals lottie !  :D

[undercarriage plan]

Have about 30 plants? One tuber seemed to produce loads, really impressed!! Can't wait to taste them now!! Chips eh, Derek, well, if I must.......!  ;D Lottie

[Derekthefox]

30 sounds quite respectable. I have 50 or so, but will get far too many for our consumption, the remaining tubers will end up on the compost in the late spring.

Dont peel them, just scrub . . .

[Marianne]

You have done well Lottie ! And those tomatoes look delicious !  Thanks for sharing.   ;D :D

[redimp]

I wnet to an U19 ineternational cricket match with free beer ;D so I have nto been up to mine today.  :(

[tim]

I reckon they are salady right into February?

Peeling - yes - but if you do want to, do it when cooked.

I hope that yours are this size? (Repeat) Bit like manatees?

[Derekthefox]

Wow Tim, mine are only the length of my fingers generally! Those are literal monsters !

[undercarriage plan]

Mine are about 6"? Is that OK? I ain't going to peel anything that shape!!! Lottie  ;D

[Derekthefox]

ROFL!  ;D

[undercarriage plan]

Thought I'd just glare at them, and they drop off skins in fright..... ;D Lottie

[Mothy]

Lovely haul there Lottie, well done!!

I have 5 x 30' rows of pink fir in....how did you know they were ready?
I must have a closer look next weekend  :)

The foliage has started to die back on the Maris Piper - a bit early I thought!

[moonbells]

Lovely haul there Lottie, well done!!

I have 5 x 30' rows of pink fir in....how did you know they were ready?
I must have a closer look next weekend  :)

The foliage has started to die back on the Maris Piper - a bit early I thought!

My Rattes are dying back too, but then again they are early maincrops (planted late March, should crop in 18-20 weeks, so digging on schedule is mid-end August).  I have cheated and dug one plant just to see, and got a large punnet of tubers.

moonbells

[Jill]

Lottie, Mothy, Moonbells, etc, that's the thing about pink fir apple pots: they're leggy main crop (and some).  Although they taste deelish as salad pots they grow as old, old 'uns.  Also, as I'm sure Tim will confirm, you're best cookin' 'em with skins on, and peel after (but mind the digits).

[undercarriage plan]

Mothy, didn't know they were ready, flowered and they'd died back, so just decided to try, and there they were! Can't convince kids they're pots!!  ::) Lottie