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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: BarriedaleNick on January 20, 2020, 09:05:15
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Made a lovely accompaniment to the Sunday roast ..
(https://i.imgur.com/6XakCzo.jpg)
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Stupid question but what is in the top right corner?
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Celeriac... down the RH side? Better size than mine.....
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Yep Celeriac. Been a good year for them on our site - well the two of us that grow them. They get a bit eaten and woodlice seem to like to make homes in them but they make such nice soups it is worth the effort.
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Look good
Can you tell me the variety of the carrots as I am looking for a good stump variety now that I am growing in troughs!
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I thought it might be HSL "Red Elephant" tried to ask earlier but my internet had a strop and didn't post what I had typed.
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I think they are Chantenay Red Cored. OH has it all recorded somewhere so I can check tomorrow.
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That sounds likely, although mine have never bulked out that much... but as I've grown them as a first season, before Flak(ee) as my mains I probably didn't give them long enough... first baby carrots of the season do go rather quickly!
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Very impressed BarriedaleNick! My parsnips are OK at the moment but the carrots went ages ago and after germination problems I only had one sprout plant this year. I have tried celeriac but it never got very big and they sometimes tasted bitter. I have still got broccoli but the cold weather has stopped it sprouting for the moment but I hope to get more in March.
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Never tried celeriac but if it makes good soup might give it a try, seems quite a hardy veg, so will definitely buy some seeds to try, Linda
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It's very greedy for water... so being in Manchester you should be OK... I'm from Rossendale originally....
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Ah, that explains why mine are never that big! When all your water is "bucket & chuck it", things tend to get watered in, then left to get on with living or dying as they choose.
Mind you, given that the lottie is practically underwater *again* I'm expecting to find celeriac the size of barrage balloons when I next wade out...
Adrian
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Sadly it doesn't work like that... they need regular watering... if they were still growing a sudden deluge would just make them split... letting the slugs and woodlice in.. ( a sure sign it is too dry if you have woodlice around them.. )
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I cut open a celeriac yesterday to find a family of woodlice happily living inside it! Plenty of it was fine but they had made a nice little home and I felt kinda bad destroying it - but the resultant fish soup was excellent!
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I cut open a celeriac yesterday to find a family of woodlice happily living inside it! Plenty of it was fine but they had made a nice little home and I felt kinda bad destroying it - but the resultant fish soup was excellent!
Yes, woodlice are crustaceans. What did you do with the celeriac?
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I was making a fish soup with finely shopped fennel, celeriac and onion. One of Jamie Oliver's I think..
Yes, woodlice are crustaceans. What did you do with the celeriac?
Ohhh I am a bit slow today !!