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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Doris_Pinks on June 21, 2005, 19:48:39
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Sorry this is in the wrong section but for some reason it won't let me delete it!
Todays pickings!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/bermujan/Trug.jpg)
Strawberries,beetroots, golden turnips, lettuce, garlic, potatoes, mint,mange touts, radish and broad beans! 1st big haul of the year! ;D ;D I love my plot! DP
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Doris....what a fantastic looking crop. That puts my meagre pickings so far to shame. I can see why you love your plot!
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I see you have picked your turnips now, how do you know they are ready?
AC
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Looks wonderful DP, your peas are ahead of mine, a few more weeks and I think they should be fat enough for picking. Like your trug as well. :D
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Yes we had strawbs & broad beans today - not many broadies but deelish (no pics I'm afraid) , and I had 2 teeny red cherry tomatoes from the greenhouse!! Yummmmm.
Terri
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Wow ! That is so colourful and fresh ! Lovely.
My broad beans are still at the flower stage ::) ???
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Must go and get my eyes tested, no wonder your peas look so fat :-[ ;D
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What a wonderful picture, what wonderful veggies.
Already beetroots, so early. Everything looks so good. The picture should be on the front page of Kitchen Garden magazine or something like that.
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:o Oh wow what a crop, I can't wait to produce summat like that and I will have to get a little basket, doesn't quite look the same in old Asda bags does it?
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Maybe not but it tastes the same
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What a fantastic haul DP. You are way ahead of me, but I think most people are. Very good looking produce, makes having an allotment worthwhile when you see lovely veggies like that.
We had our first cucumber yesterday and our Japanese onions are lovely and a few strawberries are starting to ripen. Hopefully much more to come too. Harvesting is great! busy_lizzie
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heaps of salad stuff has been grown and already harvested and eaten. i am very chuffed too with my lottie :)
lovely haul, doris. like my plot neighbour said: you might have to wash your veg but you dont mind washing your own - rather than paying fancy prices for washed tasteless produce from the s'market.
svea
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Looks absolutely yummy DP....good enough to eat! ;)
Our youngest daughter has suddenly become very interested in the plot now we're actually getting something out of the ground instead of digging, mucking, planting, weeding, weeding, weeding.
We've had broad beans, onions, spring greens, carrots, calabrese, baby courgettes, potatoes (a big hit with her "it's like digging for treasure!!") a few gooseberries and even a handful of stawberries. We're so pleased as this is our first year
Makes it all worthwhile doesn't it?
Plottie :)
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I think I am looking at one of the winners in the A4A Autumn Comp. There should be a class for "Vegetables Collection".
Well done DP.
Jerry
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I think I am looking at one of the winners in the A4A Autumn Comp. There should be a class for "Vegetables Collection".
Well done DP.
Jerry
Sorry - it would have to be disqualified due to the non- vegetables in there - strawberries!!! Not that I'm jealous or anything, you understand... >:( >:( ;D
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I think I am looking at one of the winners in the A4A Autumn Comp. There should be a class for "Vegetables Collection".
Well done DP.
Jerry
Sorry - it would have to be disqualified due to the non- vegetables in there - strawberries!!! Not that I'm jealous or anything, you understand... >:( >:( ;D
OK, mixed Harvest Collection then!
;D ;D
Jerry
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I think I am looking at one of the winners in the A4A Autumn Comp. There should be a class for "Vegetables Collection".
Well done DP.
Jerry
Sorry - it would have to be disqualified due to the non- vegetables in there - strawberries!!! Not that I'm jealous or anything, you understand... >:( >:( ;D
OK, mixed Harvest Collection then!
;D ;D
Jerry
Curses! Foiled again..... ;)
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Thanks for all your kind comments!
That made me smile Wivvles!
AC I pick my turnips when they look big enough!
Plottie, my 13 year old still likes to dig up potatoes! Like digging for gold ;D
Jess n Roy the trug was a gift from a friend, she knew I had wanted one for years n years! I love it!
And Jess, you made me LOL! I was just thinking my eyes need retesting!
Yesterday I had to go through the supermarket and there was everyone picking over the tired looking veg, I have to say I walked past smiling!! ;D (and felt smug too if I was honest :-[ ) Thanks again DP
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;D never heard them called Trugs before, is your spell checker still not working ;D should it be trough? ;D I used to see a retired school teacher regularly visit her local shop with a small basket on her arm, it was like a flash back in time :)
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;D never heard them called Trugs before, is your spell checker still not working ;D should it be trough? ;D I used to see a retired school teacher regularly visit her local shop with a small basket on her arm, it was like a flash back in time :)
Roy,
have a look here, Trugs are a very traditional "basket" made from chestnut and willow. They are very hard wearing and very versatile. I have 2 and Dad has a couple that are at least 20 years old.
They look great too!
If you are ever near a village called Hurstmonceaux in East Sussex you will see lots of Trug makers.
Jerry
http://www.sussextrugmaker.co.uk/
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Think it could be a Sussex name for them?
Jerry, I hope mine lasts that long! (and me too! ;D )
I think mine came from here, one of the best presents I have ever had.
www.truggery.co.uk (http://www.truggery.co.uk)
Could do with a couple of bigger ones too, they look great!
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yum!
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;D never heard them called Trugs before, is your spell checker still not working ;D should it be trough? ;D I used to see a retired school teacher regularly visit her local shop with a small basket on her arm, it was like a flash back in time :)
Definitely trugs. I was bought one by then boyfriend (now hubbie) a few years back when I first got my lottie and he knew I couldn't afford one myself. Wonderful piece of work. I keep all the hand tools in it, it's a general carry-all and balances beautifully on an arm. Worth the expense for the usefulness and the durability.
Etymology of word: originally 'trog' which was a wooden boat-shaped vessel.
http://www.sussextrugs.com/ has a bit more info. I got mine from the local GC: it's about the same area as two seed trays!
moonbells
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;D Very interesting ;D Although I can't see me with one on my arm :-[ Many years ago I was in a cellar doing a survey, it was dark and dingy and was packed with baskets of all shapes and sizes, there were picnic hampers bakers baskets (remember those?) creels, hand baskets oval , round and square.
If the owner had been there I bet they would have wanted rid of them :'( unfortunately they weren't so they stayed :'(
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Erm.....nobody likes a smart a**e, but it IS "TRUG"
Think its from the Kent/Sussex area originally, there used to be a place not far from Hayward Heath where they made them. Gorgeous things!! Bought one for my Ma years ago and wish I still had it :(
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;D Are you sure? "Trugs" are not just for carrying garden stuff apparently ???
http://www.onelook.com/?other=web1913&w=Trug
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Oh I say I certainly don't have one of them! "A concubine; a harlot" :o :o :o ;D ;D