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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Columbus on January 01, 2007, 20:17:40
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... (As well as all the usual winter veg) ....
radish :)
Planted outdoors at the end of October (I think)
plump, red, round and perfect.
Is that unusual?
Col
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no slug damage ?, I'm amazed :)
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I harvested some leeks today. First year grown I've grown 'em. When cooked, a little grit was inside. Reckon this came from the soil dropping between the leaves when transplanted. Wont transplant next yr. :(
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Hi Scousers,
No slug damage at all, they are at their best grown fast and eaten young. I guess its cold for slugs and warm for radish. In the spring the slugs get the upper hand (or foot :) )
Col
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I have winter radish - the chunky mooi, but the sluggies scoffed all of my regular little round radish. :(
KT, if you earth your leeks up to blanch the stem you can end up with mud in the leaf joints. Cooks slice lengthways down to the top of the white so they can really wash throroughly.
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Thanks for the tip. Will do as I still have some in the ground.
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Finally got round to dismantling the runner bean frame today and there, nestled in amongst the old dry haulms I found a perfect Marina di Chioggia, no frost damage, and fully ripe.
Don't often harvest pumpkins in January. 8)
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What a lovely New Year find ...
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I dug up my remaining carrots this morning. After near-failure earlier on in the year with Early Nantes, the Autumn King & Supreme Chantenay did their stuff & it's been a bumper year. Last 7lbs now scrubbed and prepared & frozen. I'm well pleased 8)
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I'm harvesting leeks, spinach and some herbs - waiting for the broccoli to start!
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we've got leeks, parsley, chinese leaves, mizuna and red mustard, everything else has gone :(
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In my Spanish plot Im eating Chillis & Peppers from the greenhouse (though not many) baby leaf salad (polytunnels) carrots, last of the leeks, chard kale still eating spuds harvested for crimbo dinner roll on spring!! a few peas eaten like sweets! not enough for dinner! roll on spring!!
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Just January King cabbage and some herbs now. Waiting for the purple sprouting, one of the highlights of the year :D
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We have winter radish, (Black Spanish round) a few cheeky swede we sowed really late and some still small carrots from a late sept sowing... we have salad leaves in the greenhouse and cabbage including Minicole!!! But my favourite at the moment is the Chicory (sugar loaf) Endive and Radicchio (?) which have made some great salads over the holiday! Leeks of course and Sprouts red and green, Purple cape Cauli and Sprouting Broccoli to come...
Chrysanthemum greens in the frame and some pakchoi but it looks more like lace! Some perpetual Spinach beet and Chard still cropping as well.
::)
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My chard is still cropping too & the stems not gone woody yet & the psb is set to be really early if the winter continues mild, here in the midlands.
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Waiting for the purple sprouting, one of the highlights of the year
Agreed, second only to the tomato crop imho
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I got snips,January King(some of which are starting to blow :'() Tundra,Autumn King carrots(that seem on the small side this year)Monstruoso de Carentan and Atlanta leeks, a few Montgomery sprouts,Salsify(from saved seed i let flower in my garden at home)and Jerusalem Artichoke(for the 1st time ).Waiting on me purple sprouting and me winter cauli(if i get there 1st only had 3 out of 12,the rest the cauliflower fairy tookin the dead of the night, hope they choke!!). ;D
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We are still eating a lot of our own veg. had a lovely roast on new years day with our own:
leeks
potatoes
butternut squash
parsnips
sprout tops - how lovely are they - thinking of growing loads more sprouts next year just for the tops!
very proud....... ;D
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just had soup, carrots, leeks, onions, garlic, chilli, all our own, good for my cold ;D
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sprout tops - how lovely are they - thinking of growing loads more sprouts next year just for the tops!
This has been my first year growing sprouts (why?) :o and had some first-time failures. Didn't stake them or stamp them down hard/regularly enough and about 3 plants were flattened. So I cut them down to just about ground level & left them. But now I see that they are all producing really tender leaves. Between the 3 plants there's going to be enough for a meal for 2 in a few days. Great! Oh and the remaining plants produced loads of nice sprouts. One sprout top left for Sunday 8)
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Salsify thet reminds me there is a half cultivated allotment between two of my plots covered in self sets... might do a bit of foraging (tidying up for the new tenant)....
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e190/Plot52/salsify.jpg)
;D
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Sadad, that pic of salsify reminds me of the first feeble attempts I made at growing it, (or any veg come to that) I scattered some seeds in the front garden amongst the shrubs, didnt notice what happened the first year, but one must have taken, because in the second year this amazing blue flower appeared form nowhere.
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Isn't that just gorgeous. Well worth growing. Think I'm going to be asking for seeds in Swap Shop. Love it 8)
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Not keen on oysters, but a must-have flower!!
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Salsify ... might do a bit of foraging (tidying up for the new tenant)....
;D
You might have enough to try this yummy-sounding recipe, then...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/food/recipe12.shtml
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Still digging leeks and parsnips, the parsley is still getting picked and there are two brussels and one savoy cabbage still to be used. I am ignoring that bed of undersized wizened swedes which are due to top up the compost as soon as I can bear to admit defeat........... But never mind the flower bulbs are shooting up all over the place (literally) so that cheers me up no end.
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The seed heads on Salsify look good as well. :)
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Seed head rather like a well developed Dandelion clock but darker and just as likely to blow away. Every body on the allotments got a few!
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still look nice ;D
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(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a364/Mrsava/leeks_carrots_brocolli.jpg)
Yesterday I harvested these, plus black winter radish, parsnips and beetroot. Still plenty on the plot to keep me going until the spring veg starts.
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green with envy, only got chinese leaves, mizuna, pak choi, parsley and don't even feel like salads! excellent romanesque, do they taste like broccoli?
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Glad someone else grows Black Winter Radish E-J they are very underrated...
:)
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Soooooooooooo jealous!!!!!
All I harvest at the moment is couch grass!!!
Louise
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Got another couple of Radish, Endive and Chicory out for Dinner... put some bran in the frames to try to distract the slugs from the Pak Choi...
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EJ, I have some black radish seeds waiting to go in from your recommendation :o :D
Today we pulled leeks, Spring onions (small cluster-sown Autumn onions), spinach, couve tronchuda, celeriac, Jerusalem Artichokes, parsley and broccoli from the plot, spuds and Bramleys from the shed. Feeling well chuffed :) had Sunday Lunch chicken to wash it all down with!
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2 lovely tomatoes and come chillis - OH found them when clearing the greenhouse. It was a bit a jungle in there.
I dug some parsnips for dinner, picked some brussels and pulled some parsley and chervil.