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johhnyco15

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2017 harvest
« on: June 17, 2017, 13:25:50 »
its that  time  of year when the gluts start appear going to meet my daughters inlaws for the first time today for a bbq  thought  id give them some stuff as a hello
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Re: 2017 harvest
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2017, 23:59:02 »
Well I'm impressed Johhny.. even if nobody else wants to comment.

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Re: 2017 harvest
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2017, 08:27:48 »
Looks great. Hope she loves it 😊

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Re: 2017 harvest
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2017, 11:22:42 »
Johhnyco15. my courgettes are still 5 inches long and very thin.  They have been watered regularly and the soil was enriched with well rotted manure.  No marrows of course.  My mangetout and sugar snaps are just forming flowers and my raspberries and loganberries are just beginning to ripen.  I can only assume that you have had more sunshine in Clacton than we have had in the West Country!
Well done for such an early harvest.

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Re: 2017 harvest
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2017, 16:57:58 »
I've just dug up some Pentland Javelin potatoes for the weekend and the first pea picking of the year. Plus I picked a bunch of sweetpeas - I was just grateful for my first small harvest from the allotment  :toothy10:

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Re: 2017 harvest
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2017, 08:31:25 »
Excellent crop mate.
We are pretty early here in London too but still not as bountiful as you.
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Re: 2017 harvest
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2017, 20:54:54 »
Some of todays harvest. In total another 2kg strawbs, 2kg rasps, 2kg red gooseberries, 2 cauliflower and 1kg each of potatoes and broad beans. Freezer almost full already!
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Re: 2017 harvest
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2017, 23:03:50 »
Don't... desperately trying to empty crops from freezer so it can have it's annual defrost and clean before we fill it up again!

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Re: 2017 harvest
« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2017, 08:17:11 »
This year I turned all the fruit into jam while the stove was lit. Felt rather pleased to get the older stuff used up.

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Re: 2017 harvest
« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2017, 15:32:45 »
I finally completed picking all the Ben conan blackcurrants today, sat on a kneeler thing and this time used a berry scoop, had it for years never used but it was brilliant. I managed to pretty well clean the two bushes. I did get some debris and small berries but little by little, spread them out at home and was very surprised at how little I had to waste. I am so looking forward to not picking Ben sarek right away, it looks as though they have another 3weeks to a month. Blueberries in about a month and autumn raspberries started today but I ate them as the main crop will be much later. Last rhubarb also today

Lots of courgettes, spinach chard, carrots, beetroot, spring onions, duncan cabbages and soon moonlight beans. Its very hard keeping up with everything on my own nowadays. I did thin the apples over two weeks, took off hundreds from seven trees, also took stress off them by doing this thinning

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Re: 2017 harvest
« Reply #10 on: June 30, 2017, 14:25:31 »
after a weeks holiday to northern cyprus  boy have things come on had to take this little lot home today
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Re: 2017 harvest
« Reply #11 on: June 30, 2017, 17:24:57 »
Getting a dozen courgettes a day and the neighbours haven't stopped avoiding me yet. A bucket of blackcurrants this morning, Another currant bush to clear but I might just leave the fruit cage open and give the birds a treat, they have had a good time in the strawberry bed since the net has been lifted, I don't mind them tucking in once we have had our share. I'm digging two potato plants a week as even though the late frost hit them they are giving me a couple of kilos a plant, all the usual root and salad crops feeding us, No toms yet but there is a hint of orange showing on a couple of trusses. We are having a baked vegetable dish greek style for tea, all picked fresh this morning. Broad beans picked and frozen and all finished with, runners have plenty of flower, I'll have to have a firkle about and see if there are any pods in amongst the foliage.

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Re: 2017 harvest
« Reply #12 on: July 03, 2017, 16:34:08 »
white cabbage for coleslaw tonight yummy
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Re: 2017 harvest
« Reply #13 on: July 06, 2017, 15:46:19 »
apricots are nice and large this year should be ready in a week or so
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Re: 2017 harvest
« Reply #14 on: July 06, 2017, 16:49:49 »
Picking Morello cherries every day - 3 weeks earlier than last year. Quite a few have split and rotted, probably due to extreme variations in the weather this year. Very large,  juicy fruit but because of the earlier ripening they are not the lovely deep red of other years.

Also picking blackcurrants every other day. I wish they would ripen more uniformly! There is only one huge bush but this year it is absolutely loaded.

Cobra beans cropping well as ever, but very disappointed with Tenderstar. It has beautiful flowers but is just not setting pods. Will stick to Cobra next year.

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Re: 2017 harvest
« Reply #15 on: July 06, 2017, 18:13:28 »
the anti leaf curl device 1A has done its job well around 3 weeks to harvest for my peaches
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Re: 2017 harvest
« Reply #16 on: July 06, 2017, 18:15:14 »
first outdoor tomatoes by the weekend me thinks :sunny: :sunny: :sunny:
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Re: 2017 harvest
« Reply #17 on: July 06, 2017, 18:18:16 »
my early eating apples will be ready any day soon
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Re: 2017 harvest
« Reply #18 on: July 06, 2017, 18:27:17 »
first outdoor tomatoes by the weekend me thinks :sunny: :sunny: :sunny:

Took three whole tiny little sungold toms yesterday - surprised to get them but very happy!
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Re: 2017 harvest
« Reply #19 on: July 06, 2017, 19:09:59 »
Been picking Sungold for a week now from the plants at home. Those on the lottie are still a couple of weeks away.
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