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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: undercarriage plan on August 01, 2005, 15:40:04
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I pootled off to the lottie this pm and I harvested celery, toms, poatoes (pink fir! Weird..!), runner beans, dwarf purple beans and beetroot! Begins to sound like drinking rhyme!! Msuic please, Derek!! What a wonderful feeling!! Happy Bunny ;D ;D ;D Lottie
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Pink fir Apple already? I dont normally harvest mine until October !
As for the music lottie, you have a whole cd's worth already ! :D
This time of year makes up for all the hard work anyway, glad your harvest is plentiful !
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Wagging its tail! I can hear the music from here.
Amazingly early for Celery - how did you do it?
And Pink Fir? Normally harvest from September?? (Sorry - Derek beat me to that)
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No 2 step today then lottie around the carrots just haversting weldone , hard work does pay off ;) ;)
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I don't know how I did it, to be honest!!!! Celery I started off early in the conservatory, pink fir, just planted and prayed!! Never had then before, they bizarre!!! And frisky ;) Lottie ;D
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My pink firs are only just flowering and like Tim won't be touching them before September. Have you dug up the whole lot 'cos reckon you'd get more weird and wonderful ;) shapes if you wait a bit longer. Well done tho', Lottie.
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This is my second year with pink fir, they make a gorgeous salad potato late into the autumn, so waxy. They also are gorgeous split lengthways and fried as chips. Our kids have even eaten them cold! The only down side is when they go rotten - the smell is just disgusting ! Hope you have enough to enjoy many meals lottie ! :D
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Have about 30 plants? One tuber seemed to produce loads, really impressed!! Can't wait to taste them now!! Chips eh, Derek, well, if I must.......! ;D Lottie
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30 sounds quite respectable. I have 50 or so, but will get far too many for our consumption, the remaining tubers will end up on the compost in the late spring.
Dont peel them, just scrub . . .
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You have done well Lottie ! And those tomatoes look delicious ! Thanks for sharing. ;D :D
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I wnet to an U19 ineternational cricket match with free beer ;D so I have nto been up to mine today. :(
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I reckon they are salady right into February?
Peeling - yes - but if you do want to, do it when cooked.
I hope that yours are this size? (Repeat) Bit like manatees?
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Wow Tim, mine are only the length of my fingers generally! Those are literal monsters !
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Mine are about 6"? Is that OK? I ain't going to peel anything that shape!!! Lottie ;D
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ROFL! ;D
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Thought I'd just glare at them, and they drop off skins in fright..... ;D Lottie
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Lovely haul there Lottie, well done!!
I have 5 x 30' rows of pink fir in....how did you know they were ready?
I must have a closer look next weekend :)
The foliage has started to die back on the Maris Piper - a bit early I thought!
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Lovely haul there Lottie, well done!!
I have 5 x 30' rows of pink fir in....how did you know they were ready?
I must have a closer look next weekend :)
The foliage has started to die back on the Maris Piper - a bit early I thought!
My Rattes are dying back too, but then again they are early maincrops (planted late March, should crop in 18-20 weeks, so digging on schedule is mid-end August). I have cheated and dug one plant just to see, and got a large punnet of tubers.
moonbells
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Lottie, Mothy, Moonbells, etc, that's the thing about pink fir apple pots: they're leggy main crop (and some). Although they taste deelish as salad pots they grow as old, old 'uns. Also, as I'm sure Tim will confirm, you're best cookin' 'em with skins on, and peel after (but mind the digits).
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Mothy, didn't know they were ready, flowered and they'd died back, so just decided to try, and there they were! Can't convince kids they're pots!! ::) Lottie
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Eek! Pink fir flowering and dying... ?blight? in which case, the only thing you could do is dig now.
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As long as the kids eat them lottie, too many children turn their noses up at anything just a little bit unusual . . . I think they are a first class potato :D
Anyway this may be my last post this morning, since I have been given the day off ;)
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Bet it'll throw it down then Derek ;D
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The plants hadn't died, just the flowers!!!!!! No sign of blight yet.....fingers corssed!! I hope your day off recharged those musical batteries, Derek!!!! Lottie ;D
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Thanks for that vote of confidence wardy !
To be honest, I have had a truly exquisite day, pure bliss in fact, and have lots of motivation for more music, although it can't be rushed ...
However as payback for a lovely day, I have done a classical version of what is claimed to be one of the most romantic ballads ever written - Greensleeves. I am taxing the limits both of my technique, and the sound quality, but nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Existing arrangements stand. :D
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Glad you had a good day Derek ;D
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Glad you recharged, Dibber and I have list - potato two step, gooseberry gander, strawberry salsa, ragged runners........ ;DLottie
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Ok still on holiday today, and feel I should at least do what I can while I have the time . . .
A new piece called Divigando, in a style known as a choro from Brazil. Lottie, hope this helps you to destress, with so much in your life at the moment, enjoy it as you prance around your allotment, picking your beans etc. Don't forget to take this with you on holiday Dibber, perhaps the dogs might like to join in! ! !
Oh yes, cefer has now been added to the standard mailing list. Anyone else just pm me your addy. :D
ps dibber, can you empty your email intray, keeps bouncing me
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I now need hours of Turkish massage I think!!! Had to do 4 hours of lawn scarifying today...4hours!!!! So stiff can barely move!! Music wonderful, Derek, destressing beautifully, think I'll break rake next week, accidentally..... ;) Lottie ;D
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Ok, just as proof of how inspired I am feeling, here is a gorgeous piece written as an Habanera (like a tango) - Cubanita. Just listen to this when soaking in a perfumed bath with lots of candles around - or one of those private romantic moments with someone special, oops showing my true nature again Doh!
Jill has been added to the distribution list now.
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I would, Derek, but if you remember, my OH is "remodelling" :-\ the bathroom.......not the world's most relaxing place at min, my bathroom.......probably be better off in shed!!!!! Water off again tomorrow :'( :'( :'( Lottie ;)
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Ah well, just close your eyes when on the allotment, with your mp3 player, and use your imagination . . . :D
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I am going from strength to strength here! Yet another one, this is pure fun, a Waltz in E, great for tripping and skipping around the carrots and beetroot ! :D
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Well, I have to say, I was skipping champion at school......I kid you not!! Was musicless today as well, my little ol' man spent 4 hours telling me how to rake..... ::) Bless him, he's a sweetie really, think he's just checking I can work as well as these male gardeners....dread to think what next week will bring.....I do know it involves a ladder, plastic sheeting and a yew tree......... :-\
Lottie ;D ;D ;D
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Another day, seize the high points and translate them into an exquisite bolero . . . This gives me enough material for a cd now ! :D
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Wow, just realised that I have achieved a long sought after ambition - a whole cd of my own playing. The actual recording quality is necessarily quite poor, and the musicianship is also very amateur, but I have now produced my own master cd!
So this year's Christmas presents are already sorted . . . ;D
I must remember the credits of course, all those in A4A who have provided encouragement, and then there is the source for the inspiration . . .
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Ah yes, boiler man and electrician...... ;) Lottie ;D
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As I am sat here, listening to this disc, I am puzzling over the role of the boilerman and the sparky . . . not that I want to deny them any legitimate claim to the actual production :D
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How can you possibly not include the boiler man and the electrician!!!!! I'm surprise at you, Derek!! We all know their true worth ??? Lottie ;D
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OK I can see the link now, apart from which I was brought up never to argue with a lady ! :D
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And I should think so too......honstly..... ;) Lottie
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Am I forgiven then? :D
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Of course you are, Derek! In seclusion at my parents at min!!! Bathroom apparently in such a state of destruction, I'm not allowed back yet.....my imagination has gone into overdrive, just hope house standing! May end up bunking with electrician and boiler man in shed! :o Lottie ;D
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Thank you so much! Your description of your bathroom reminds me of when I refitted our kitchen. New electrics, italian tiles on floor and walls, new gas piping, all new units and sink. All fitted and looking delightful. The last item to address was the ceiling, this was warped plasterboard from when the bath had sprung a leak. So I decided the only solution was to rip the lot down, literally! Only took 15 minutes, but the kitchen looked like a bomb site afterwards! Fortunately, my wife saw the funny side. Half an hour later all the mess was cleared away, and I started fitting the nordic cladding. :D
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You did that in a day!!!!!! Blimey, well impressed! OK home now, destruction magicked away fpr now......and dare I say it, beginning to look really nice, but will keep that to self for while....... ;) Lottie
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did the ceiling in a day, the whole kitchen took a few weeks. It looks shabby again now though :(