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galina

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #1380 on: May 06, 2012, 09:16:15 »
Rhubarb fresh and blackcurrant from the freezer, also chard and oregano for dinner.  Stored tromboncino squash. 

A few leaves of lettuce, rocket, spring onion, cress and landcress for lunch salad with just one tiny new shoot of celery (survived under cloche and fleece on top whilst plants of the same batch did not survive in greenhouse  ???) and salad burnett herb leaf tips for flavouring.

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #1381 on: May 08, 2012, 20:57:52 »
At the moment it seems to be Radish, radish and even more radish!!!  Didn't think I had sown that much  ;D

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #1382 on: May 13, 2012, 20:13:39 »
Still having potatoes from store... and PSB but the first real cut of asparagus...  :)

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #1383 on: May 13, 2012, 21:09:16 »
As a newby-allotmenteer...nowt but rhubarb as yet. But after 3 hours of weeding, I wish I had googled 'nettle recipes' before I headed off to the plot rather than when I got home. ::)

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #1384 on: May 13, 2012, 21:21:12 »
 ;D re the nettle recipes Gerbera, Ive never plucked up the courage to try them but do use nettles to make a stinky 'tea' fertiliser ;)

Today I've had swede, kale & rhubarb. Picked lettuce for tomorrow. xJane

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #1385 on: May 15, 2012, 11:02:40 »
Not a newby but can't manage to produce all year round. despite a lot of trying!  Still just rhubarb for now! and a lot of herbs: mint, parsley, coriander, chives. Lettuces are still tiny and the turnips...welll read my thread about them!  Still, peas are flowering.... and the first spuds are just a couple of weeks away.
AH yes, got the first strawberries! 6 of them  ;D  ;D but delish!
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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #1386 on: May 15, 2012, 13:34:32 »
Rhubarb, more PSB more asparagus...  :)

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #1387 on: May 15, 2012, 19:04:47 »
Rhubarb, more PSB more asparagus...  :)

That reminds me I have cooked rhubarb in the fridge. I'll eat it even if no one else is keen  ::)

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #1388 on: May 21, 2012, 09:06:06 »
Yesterday, We had the first hen sized, firkled lady Chrystl spuds with a bit of beef, broccoli, sweetcorn, carrots and french beans out of the freezer  ;D

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #1389 on: May 21, 2012, 11:28:05 »
Dug up a volunteer potato and found 8 small spuds.  Very nice.  Volumia.

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #1390 on: May 21, 2012, 14:38:24 »
Had the last of the PSB and leeks yesterday, with frozen runners. Then rhubarb and blackberry(frozen) crumble
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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #1391 on: May 21, 2012, 18:14:41 »
Still having potatoes from store... and PSB but the first real cut of asparagus...  :)

PSB... what is this??
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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #1392 on: May 21, 2012, 18:21:36 »
Purple sprouting broccoli  :)
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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #1393 on: June 02, 2012, 22:48:23 »
Lettuce leaves, raddish,spring onions and rhubarb  ;D

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #1394 on: June 02, 2012, 23:12:04 »
Sweetheart cabbage. It was a youngster, but oh so yummo! :D

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #1395 on: June 02, 2012, 23:51:01 »
Strawberries and they were absolutely lovely.... picked four tubs full.  :)

So completely different from out of season / imported shop bought ones that have little taste. If only Mrs R would stop buying the things and be patient - the wait is worth it.

Next visit to the plot I must take more / larger containers as I left half behind for fear of squashing them. Another trip tomorrow if it doesn't rain too much tonight.

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #1396 on: June 03, 2012, 09:54:23 »
New potatoes, provence salad mix, radish and a gone to seed red onion, followed by rhubarb pie  ;D

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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #1397 on: June 03, 2012, 12:35:18 »
Made soup today out of frozen and stored veg. Cats protection lady came and relieved me of my surplus of frozen tomatoes and redcurrants. At last I can defrost one of the  freezers
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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #1398 on: June 04, 2012, 10:02:54 »
Some beetroot, roasted - very tasty. My wife made a courgette, onion and french bean soup from the few I brought back from the lottie. Picked all the cherries today while there were still some left - got about a kilo worth. Snacked on redcurrants but they're  a tad sour. Tried a crystal lemon cuke but wasn't quite ripe. Tried the first peas straight from the pod - very sweet but not enough yet for a meal. Plenty of strawberries but a tad disappointing, think I'll replace them this year.
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Re: WHAT DID YOU EAT FROM YOUR ALLOTMENT TODAY?
« Reply #1399 on: June 04, 2012, 21:17:13 »
Triamble squash, rhubarb  from the freezer, Sorrel and kale salad, shallotts which we had to pull early as they were in the way.

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