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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: betula on August 10, 2009, 20:06:52

Title: Pink Fir Apple
Post by: betula on August 10, 2009, 20:06:52
Decided to harvest some........they look a treat,so pleased.

Click pic to enlarge ;D
Title: Re: Pink Fir Apple
Post by: lushy86 on August 10, 2009, 20:22:25
They look lovely betula, I did the same and some were really odd shapes.  Are they from one plant?

Lushy x
Title: Re: Pink Fir Apple
Post by: thifasmom on August 10, 2009, 20:43:52
nice harvest you got there
Title: Re: Pink Fir Apple
Post by: ceres on August 10, 2009, 21:00:19
Nice handbag too!  ;)
Title: Re: Pink Fir Apple
Post by: betula on August 10, 2009, 21:46:00
They were from two plants.Had some tonight.Lovely.

Love my Radley bags ceres. ;D
Title: Re: Pink Fir Apple
Post by: hippydave on August 10, 2009, 22:02:27
mine were very very knobbly as well but with a bit of a scrub they were very very nice :D
Title: Re: Pink Fir Apple
Post by: betula on August 11, 2009, 09:10:27
Just one question>This year I have not got one knobble.....is it serious ? ;D
Title: Re: Pink Fir Apple
Post by: saddad on August 11, 2009, 09:53:07
It's not compulsory... even in it's offspring like Anya you get the odd deformity..  ::)
Title: Re: Pink Fir Apple
Post by: Duke Ellington on August 11, 2009, 11:59:52
Betula ~ looks like a good harvest there :)
I always knew you were dead posh you with ya Radley bags !!  :P

Duke
Title: Re: Pink Fir Apple
Post by: Sparkly on August 11, 2009, 12:02:16
Quote from: ceres on August 10, 2009, 21:00:19
Nice handbag too!  ;)

Ha ha!! that is exactly what I thought too LOL!
Title: Re: Pink Fir Apple
Post by: betula on August 11, 2009, 12:14:53
Ha Ha Ha LOL  ;D

Every girl should have a Radley Bag.Don't leave home without one ;D
Title: Re: Pink Fir Apple
Post by: ceres on August 11, 2009, 12:46:27
And it's gotta be pink!

To match the spuds!
Title: Re: Pink Fir Apple
Post by: 1066 on August 11, 2009, 13:12:45
now that's taking accessorising to another level  ;)  ;D
Title: Re: Pink Fir Apple
Post by: lewic on August 11, 2009, 13:18:32
I was cussing the knobbles on mine, they are such weird shapes they are impossible to clean and the slugs have had a feast!
Title: Re: Pink Fir Apple
Post by: katynewbie on August 11, 2009, 15:01:39
I have limited space in the garden, so decided to put my PFA in a big tub this year. I had a little firkle on sunday and there they were, pink, perfect and lovely. Lots more to come too! I was worried that they would all be slugged, but so far so good.
Title: Re: Pink Fir Apple
Post by: nilly71 on August 14, 2009, 08:37:51
I empted two of my pound shop pop up bins yesterday, each had about 3 PFA seeds used. I planted them in a bit of compost then topped up using shredded paper and grass cutting mixed together.

(http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x296/nilly71/allotment/P0827_14-08-09.jpg)

I think i emptied them to early as the largest was about 3" and lots were about 1", but they do look yum ;D

I'll leave the other plants a bit longer.

Neil
Title: Re: Pink Fir Apple
Post by: 1066 on August 14, 2009, 08:53:43
great result! I remember from a previous post about those pop up bins from the pound shops and will definitely try this next year. Thanks for the reminder!
Mine are in the ground and I've topped them up with soil and grass cuttings I just hope they are as good as those. Might go and have a firkle this weekend.....
Title: Re: Pink Fir Apple
Post by: betula on August 14, 2009, 09:11:09
They look good..............they do not look like they have many nobbles on either. ???I have grown them for about the last three years and this is the first time I have them with a smooth surface.Nothing to put in the funny pics thread this year. :)

I have grown all my spuds in raised beds this year.Some of you may remember my plot gets very waterlogged and I did lose a huge bed of potatoes one year as they were just sitting in water.It was heartbreaking after all that digging.
Title: Re: Pink Fir Apple
Post by: nilly71 on August 14, 2009, 09:32:17
I think mine were too small to have developed the nobbley bits, some of the bigger ones have them, but not many.

Neil
Title: Re: Pink Fir Apple
Post by: betula on August 14, 2009, 09:36:07
Hmmm not sure as I have a mixture from the very large to smallish :)
Title: Re: Pink Fir Apple
Post by: lushy86 on August 14, 2009, 23:55:54
Just ate my first PFA today, they were lovely though a bit larger than I would have liked and very very nobbly, some looked like 2 joined together others like alien life forms.  Found best way to clean them was to use a washing up brush.  Went really well with my suasage casserole  :)

Lushy x


Title: Re: Pink Fir Apple
Post by: cornykev on August 15, 2009, 17:16:47
This is the first year that I haven't done the PFA's and mine were never near as smooth as theses ones.   
Even the advert at the bottom has a bloody handbag on it.
;D ;D ;D