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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Georgie on September 15, 2006, 19:48:21

Title: Pots still producing
Post by: Georgie on September 15, 2006, 19:48:21
Picked this little lot today from my pots of edibles.  Also got another head of celery ready for soup tomorrow and two more cucumbers will be ready for picking in the next few days.  Just lovin' it!    ;D   G x

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/georgie_girl15/Harvest.jpg)
Title: Re: Pots still producing
Post by: supersprout on September 15, 2006, 20:10:34
An enviable crop of physalis :P
Just shows what variety and quality of veg can be grown in pots.
Are you planning to run veg arranging courses any time soon? :o ;) ;D
Title: Re: Pots still producing
Post by: saddad on September 15, 2006, 20:11:24
Well done. I have a backlog of about twenty white wonder cucs., despite having given away about ten!
;D
Title: Re: Pots still producing
Post by: Emagggie on September 15, 2006, 20:14:57
Looking at your physalis, Georgie, makes me think of Thursday afternoon this week when my plottie neighbour invited me and another plotter to taste his physalis.They were beautiful. Not a bit like the tasteless fruit we get in restaurants. By the time we had finished eating all the ripe ones, he had very little to take home for his wife. :P ;D

I see the makings of a tasty meal there.
Title: Re: Pots still producing
Post by: Georgie on September 15, 2006, 20:15:26
ROFL@SS, trust you!  ;D

Thanks, saddad.  Can we see a pic of your white wonders?   ;)

G x
Title: Re: Pots still producing
Post by: saddad on September 15, 2006, 20:17:47
I'll take it now but may take time to post as I have to get at the laptop and E-mail it to my main...and the boys hold the Laptop as their sacred preserve at the weekend!
;D
Title: Re: Pots still producing
Post by: Georgie on September 15, 2006, 20:18:54
Hi Emaggie.  Can't beat a Physalis feast eh?  I had the toms, onions and watercress with come cheese for lunch.  Beans are for later.   ;D

G x
Title: Re: Pots still producing
Post by: Georgie on September 15, 2006, 20:20:40
Quote from: saddad on September 15, 2006, 20:17:47
I'll take it now but may take time to post as I have to get at the laptop and E-mail it to my main...and the boys hold the Laptop as their sacred preserve at the weekend!
;D

Right oh, one thing us gardeners learn is patience.   ;D

G x
Title: Re: Pots still producing
Post by: saddad on September 15, 2006, 20:29:17
I've taken the pic., the long thin ones may be Boothby's Blond... didn't do any Crystal Apple this time. These open pollinated vars. are great, cheap seed , you can save your own, no messing about with male and female flowers, I really can't understand how F1's caught on!
;D
Title: Re: Pots still producing
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on September 15, 2006, 21:19:55
Commercial hype. It suits the seed manufacturers, so we're manipulated into buying the things.
Title: Re: Pots still producing
Post by: Mrs Ava on September 15, 2006, 22:20:06
Stunning Georgie.  Absolutely stunning!

(I will get your French Beans to you next week....all behind and going nowhere this week!)  :-\
Title: Re: Pots still producing
Post by: tim on September 16, 2006, 08:54:34
How do you grow your cress, Georgie?
Title: Re: Pots still producing
Post by: Georgie on September 16, 2006, 10:30:00
Very impressive, saddad, I might rethink the variety I grow next year now.   :)

Thanks EJ, and look forward to receiving the beans when you have a minute, clearly there is no rush.   ;D  Did the Echinacea arrive safely?

Hi Tim.  I'm growing the watercress in a 12" pot which stands in a saucer of water which is kept constantly topped up.   It's the first time I've tried it and it works a treat.   :D

G x
Title: Re: Pots still producing
Post by: saddad on September 16, 2006, 19:07:03
American or land cress isn't quite as nice but it is certainly dependable and firey hot... can become a weed if your not careful...
;D
Title: Re: Pots still producing
Post by: tim on September 16, 2006, 19:13:56
Wish it would become a weed here, Dad!! Even then, not the same stuff.

Georgie - only just realised that all that was in POTS. Amazing!! What size pots?
Title: Re: Pots still producing
Post by: Georgie on September 16, 2006, 20:00:55
Mainly 12" pots, Tim, although I go up to 15" for hungry/thirsty plants like runner beans.  At only 9 foot wide (north to south) my garden is just too narrow to make growing edibles feasible in beds so I have no choice. 

G x
Title: Re: Pots still producing
Post by: tim on September 16, 2006, 20:35:05
AMAZING!!