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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: OllieC on April 17, 2009, 16:34:17

Title: Too much PSB?
Post by: OllieC on April 17, 2009, 16:34:17: Yes, I never thought it would happen... With the recent perfect psb weather, we're absolutely inundated with the stuff, and it does seem a shame to turn it into soup but we're actually starting to get tired of it, for the first time ever. Well, since I was a kid anyway.

Anyone else have this rather rare problem?
Title: Re: Too much PSB?
Post by: Lottie103 on April 17, 2009, 17:10:00: If only ;D ....... I've think my pics last week say it all for me really :o Maybe next week is my week....
Title: Re: Too much PSB?
Post by: thifasmom on April 17, 2009, 17:13:44: yep been there last year spring, this year its much more managable :)
Title: Re: Too much PSB?
Post by: Borlotti on April 17, 2009, 17:22:33: Have got some in the fridge, can't face anymore today. Raining here today and sunny tomorrow and Sunday so expect there will be more to pick on Sunday, will give it to my veggie friend. Nearly dug it up and threw it on compost as the pigeons had really had a go and it looked so sad, but suddenly it has had a second life.
Title: Re: Too much PSB?
Post by: 1066 on April 17, 2009, 17:29:16: Snot fair :'(
Lottie103 - I'm with you, still waiting as per my post! http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,50268.msg509880.html#msg509880
Title: Re: Too much PSB?
Post by: shirlton on April 17, 2009, 17:47:38: I freeze my excess even the small shoots cos its lovely in a chicken and broccoli flan
Title: Re: Too much PSB?
Post by: Hyacinth on April 17, 2009, 19:58:52: I freeze mine too if I get a chance (cos it's one of my fav'rite nighttime snaks tossed in oil/chillies/garlic...) but I agree with Shirl, it freezes beautifully....
Title: Re: Too much PSB?
Post by: Lottie103 on April 17, 2009, 20:09:40: Quote from: 1066 on April 17, 2009, 17:29:16
Snot fair :'(
Lottie103 - I'm with you, still waiting as per my post! http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,50268.msg509880.html#msg509880

1066 - sorry, I missed your original post. It sounds like we may have the same variety of psb because I bought mine from Wyvale as plug plants last autumn too :-X. I didn't know the variety, but have just googled `Cardinal'.

That famous organic veg box company `Riverford Organic Veg' grow it & say `We finish the season with Cardinal or Tozers “late selection” in late April or early May.'

There's (possibly) hope for us yet! ;D
Title: Re: Too much PSB?
Post by: kt. on April 17, 2009, 23:29:16: Now with a 2nd plot..... I am getting in all the extra stuff I always wanted to grow 8) 8) I have just transplanted 18 seedlings into larger pots for next year. Is this too many for a family I have not bothered with it before due to lack of room.
Title: Re: Too much PSB?
Post by: jonny211 on April 17, 2009, 23:34:12: Family of 10 maybe? I had four good plants this year, and four more white sprouting broccoli's... we were giving the stuff away in the end.
Title: Re: Too much PSB?
Post by: thifasmom on April 18, 2009, 00:47:53: gotta agree we had six huge plants last year and were inundated, we are a family of five, this year we have four plants which didn't grow as well and we have at least two harvest per week, more than enough for our needs. so i'll be planting just 4 plants again this year.
Title: Re: Too much PSB?
Post by: Bjerreby on April 18, 2009, 04:26:25: Sorry, am a bit thick. I googled psb and got this lot....

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
Partido Socialista Brasileiro
Pearl S. Buck, the Nobel Laureate
Penn, Schoen & Berland, a market research firm
Perpetual subordinated bond
Pet Shop Boys, a British pop duo from England
Phones Sportsman Band, ex-Swell Maps indie funsters
PhotoShop Big (.PSB), a file format used by Adobe Systems PhotoShop Software
Pine shoot beetle
Please See Below (when used in e-mail)
Plus-Tech Squeeze Box
Polskie Składy Budowlane, a Polish Retail Corporation
Polski Słownik Biograficzny, a Polish encyclopedia
Power Signal Box, a British type of railway signalling centre
Prawn sandwich brigade
Presidential Service Badge
Presidentskaya Sluzha Bezopasnosti, Russian presidential security service
Processor side bus, a computer data bus type
Productivity Standard Board, the old name of a governmental department now called SPRING in Singapore
PSB Academy, a private school mainly located in Singapore
Program Specification Block, used in the IBM database IMS
The PSB Speakers loudspeaker company
Public Security Bureau, the name for police station in Mainland China
Public Service Broadcasting

Can someone please tell me what psb this thread is about?
Title: Re: Too much PSB?
Post by: RobinOfTheHood on April 18, 2009, 07:03:46: Purple Sprouting Broccoli - I've just picked another carrier bag full.... ;D
Title: Re: Too much PSB?
Post by: powerspade on April 18, 2009, 07:16:03: I have 5 Plants and at the moment I am collecting the best harvest for years. While the prices in Asdas at all heading for the sky I class myself very fortunate to have a allotment and a abundant harvest of winter greens
Title: Re: Too much PSB?
Post by: shirlton on April 18, 2009, 08:34:37: My seed for for next year has just germinated. Last year we had 10 plants .Will definitely be growing more this year. whilst in Lidl I stumbled (as ya do) on a 4 cheeses sauce in a jar.95p Try it with your brocolli.I use half the jar and add a drop of milk to it, so it does us twice.
Title: Re: Too much PSB?
Post by: 1066 on April 18, 2009, 16:55:45: Quote from: Lottie103 on April 17, 2009, 20:09:40
Quote from: 1066 on April 17, 2009, 17:29:16
Snot fair :'(
Lottie103 - I'm with you, still waiting as per my post! http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,50268.msg509880.html#msg509880

1066 - sorry, I missed your original post. It sounds like we may have the same variety of psb because I bought mine from Wyvale as plug plants last autumn too :-X. I didn't know the variety, but have just googled `Cardinal'.

That famous organic veg box company `Riverford Organic Veg' grow it & say `We finish the season with Cardinal or Tozers “late selection” in late April or early May.'

There's (possibly) hope for us yet! ;D

And I missed yours - sorry! It does sound as if its the same
But there's still hope, mine seemed to have picked up a lot from the recent rain
We'll just have to practice patience :P . Just about to sow mine for next year.........
Title: Re: Too much PSB?
Post by: 1066 on May 08, 2009, 08:16:52: Finally got a few PSB to eat last night 8)
But only a few...
Still have 3 other PSB plants in which are just all leaves at the mo, so maybe a few more to come in the next few weeks, some of the others had gone to seed.
Oh, well memo to self to not buy PSB plug plants in autumn And sow your own !!

Lottie103 - any joy from yours yet?

1066
Title: Re: Too much PSB?
Post by: artichoke on May 08, 2009, 09:06:27: I agree about freezing well, and has anyone tried a broccoli and orange salad? Barely cooked bright green broccoli, sliced oranges, oil and lemon dressing - delicious.
Title: Re: Too much PSB?
Post by: 1066 on May 08, 2009, 09:09:31: Sounds delicious Artichoke, but looking at my distinct lack of PSB this year it will be 1 for next year!
Title: Re: Too much PSB?
Post by: reddyreddy on May 08, 2009, 09:49:53: delicious with a bit of stilton as a soup :P
Title: Re: Too much PSB?
Post by: Bjerreby on May 08, 2009, 09:52:30: Well, once I found out what PSB stands for, and that it is harvested late winter to spring, I have gone ahead and sown Early Purple spouting broccoli.

I have no experience with it, but from what I read above, I have gone for 14 plants. They will go in the bed where my Onward peas are coming up right now. Or should I put them where the boad beans are?