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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: johhnyco15 on June 17, 2017, 13:25:50
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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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Well I'm impressed Johhny.. even if nobody else wants to comment.
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Looks great. Hope she loves it 😊
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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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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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Excellent crop mate.
We are pretty early here in London too but still not as bountiful as you.
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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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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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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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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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after a weeks holiday to northern cyprus boy have things come on had to take this little lot home today
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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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white cabbage for coleslaw tonight yummy
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apricots are nice and large this year should be ready in a week or so
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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.
Tricia :wave:
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the anti leaf curl device 1A has done its job well around 3 weeks to harvest for my peaches
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first outdoor tomatoes by the weekend me thinks :sunny: :sunny: :sunny:
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my early eating apples will be ready any day soon
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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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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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I picked my first tomato yesterday. It was an orange rapture. I took some seeds from tomatoes I bought in the supermarket last year.
Sugar snaps, broad beans and purple sprouting have provided a few meals and I picked my first courgettes yesterday. Chillies and peppers are coming on well. I was behind with planting my French and runner beans and am still waiting for flowers. Plenty of male flowers on my squashes but no females yet. Cucumbers are just forming but are only 2 or 3 mm long yet.
I have sixty or more tomato plants. Some are in the greenhouse and some in pots outside. I still have some to pot up but I may have to be selective and dump a few.
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todays haul another bbq to go to this afternoon will be taking some stuff to share courgettes and runner beans for disposal lol :sunny: :sunny: :sunny: :sunny: :sunny:
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alfred is ready for harvest
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yellow plums ready for harvest
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and the purple
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Picked these today
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4294/35142423384_e70f2d141b_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Vxq78s)
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4294/35982483995_c08b581ea4_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/WPDCT6)
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very nice tg that haul bears out what we said at the start of the season you are around 3 weeks behind us here on the sunshine coast
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I've not had one courgette yet from my plants. Only male flowers so far. How can I encourage them to mate!
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PICKINGS THIS WEEK
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had my first sweetcorn tonight for dinner variety swift and i must say it was excellent
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harvested about 7 large courgettes / small marrows and there are tons more forming on my 3 plants, i can see tomatoes forming in greenhouse but they have all fallen forward and i need to tie them all back up (been 2 hot to go into greenhouse for long) so i might find more as i tie the plants up :) Just harvested a large bag of shallots (may have early sign of onion rot on a few so need to look at this in better light). Garlic may be ready for harvesting in that i have a good sized blub but the green leaves have not fallen yet so will wait :(
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Peppers, aubergines, cucumbers and of course tomatoes...
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took a couple of bits home today 4 carrier bags of beans a another bag of courgettes a bag ofbeetroot and these little fellows
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todays haul for my daughters enterprise
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a few more
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already getting a bit fed up of big tomatoes
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scotch bonnets are a little slow to ripen
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scotch bonnets are a little slow to ripen
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peaches on the other hand are ready ripe and juicy
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tomato essex wonder is living up to its name huge trusses this pic is just one truss
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Good pickings this week..
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Johhnyco, you sure that's 1 truss. Looks like 3 to me?
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I prefer a slice of lemon in my Gin not a slice of tomato. :drunken_smilie:
Is that dark tomato Black Russian or is it suffering from 'Greenback'?
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I've not had one courgette yet from my plants. Only male flowers so far. How can I encourage them to mate!
By hoping for female flowers to come eventually. We had our second courgette today. Except it was hiding and has turned into a big marrow. But the next one will be in a couple of days. And I am located south of you. Hope you are getting females soon. :wave:
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Johhny, pretty fabulous :wave:
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Johhnyco, you sure that's 1 truss. Looks like 3 to me?
not the top one the bottom one goes right around the corner it really is a huge truss the pic doesn't do it justice havent been there today due to a hospital appointment but will try to do it justice tomorrow
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ok popped to the plot to water the pumpkins and tried on the quick to get a better angle think i failed however here it is
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todays tomato harvest i think tomorrow will be the same tom glut time i love it
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Is that dark tomato Black Russian or is it suffering from 'Greenback'?
Some black ones in there yes.. Pretty tasty and prolific..
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todays harvest peaches the only downside the wait of them all broke the bow right close the the trunk so had no option but to cut it off
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todays harvest peaches the only downside the wait of them all broke the bow right close the the trunk so had no option but to cut it off
weight sorry for the obvious mistake
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todays harvest plums
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todays harvest its a bit like ground hog day toms plums chilis blackberries same stuff different day
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todays haul larder getting very full now
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having a BBQ this sat so making a veg curry to go with the all that protein so i thought harvest some ingredients
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Wow do you have a greenhouse? We have had a warm summer but my peppers and chillies are still green and the butternuts nowhere near ready (not to mention the one that OH knocked off the vine, sniff sniff). We have a load of tomatoes, I have made 4 huge jars of sauce and tonight I am going to pop some bags in the freezer and make some passata in jars for winter. My OH did go mad with the toms though, I think we must have near 40 plants, in the veg patch, in the front garden and in a big pot! Next year I will hide the seeds from him!!!
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Wow do you have a greenhouse? We have had a warm summer but my peppers and chillies are still green and the butternuts nowhere near ready (not to mention the one that OH knocked off the vine, sniff sniff). We have a load of tomatoes, I have made 4 huge jars of sauce and tonight I am going to pop some bags in the freezer and make some passata in jars for winter. My OH did go mad with the toms though, I think we must have near 40 plants, in the veg patch, in the front garden and in a big pot! Next year I will hide the seeds from him!!!
yes i have a greenhouse had a good year here on the sunshine coast a lot of early summer sun which really helped
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BBQ tomorrow so thought id best get some peppers to roast