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Title: I just nip down to allotment...
Post by: goodlife on October 08, 2013, 08:48:31
...won't be long....
The 'famous' last words that I do tend to use a lot when I should be fetching something for the cooking pot..luckily this time I didn't have anything simmering or it would have doomed to be burned.
I only went to fetch some chives for my sarnie.....
Title: Re: I just nip down to allotment...
Post by: galina on October 08, 2013, 09:24:04
Oh WOW!!!

What a super selection.  The pumpkins and squashes look fab, as does everything else.  How many trips did it take to get that 'little lot' home?

Well done (where are the chives though?)   :tongue3:
Title: Re: I just nip down to allotment...
Post by: Jayb on October 08, 2013, 09:31:18
Lol, hope you got your sarnie in the end! And well done you, what a fantastic haul, looks superb!    :sunny:
Must be something in the air, I did something similar with squashes yesterday too!
Title: Re: I just nip down to allotment...
Post by: goodlife on October 08, 2013, 10:15:29
I never got to that sarnie... :BangHead: ...and ended up munching apples to kill the worst hunger bangs...YUM!
Well..most of the fruit I got into storage into shed..though I ended up having to reorganize the shed first as it was filled up already with spuds. The first teeny weeny amount of apples and pears are put away (trees are still full of apples :BangHead: :icon_cheers:)..first lot of beans are stacked up to dry in GH..first corn in drying there too.
Squash is still in allotment stacked on bread trays and I'm planning to clean them up today and put them away before the rain comes...where they go, I don't have no idea.. perhaps I have to do 'the goodlife trick' and start shifting stuff to store into spare bedroom :icon_cheers:..but It is already housing lot of wool.. :drunken_smilie:
Well..another cup of coffee and then I have to start getting wheel barrow ready for those trips to home...
Title: Re: I just nip down to allotment...
Post by: goodlife on October 08, 2013, 10:20:51
Oh..and to add...I'm REALLY REALLY REALLY pleased for my squash crop this year...
the photo doesn't quite 'paint' the full picture..there is not that many in numbers but most of those are REALLY good size :icon_cheers:
Each will feed us over several meals :icon_cheers:
I'm very happy bird :toothy10: :icon_cheers:
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Post by: Unwashed on October 08, 2013, 10:26:30
What a haul!
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Post by: Borlotti on October 08, 2013, 11:02:54
I like a day at the allotment, because once I get there I never want to go home.  Time flies when one is having fun.  I say I am just popping out, won't be long, at least I get home before dark.  :sunny: :sunny: :sunny:
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Post by: pumkinlover on October 08, 2013, 13:11:09
That is such a lovely photo of your produce Goodlife!! (ps missed you on Sunday!)
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Post by: antipodes on October 09, 2013, 16:07:34
Beautiful!!
I was disappointed with my squash - got 3 nice butternuts, but otherwise just a load of round orangey squash that are actually pretty tasteless and only one Turks turban. You sent me some marina di choggia but I never managed to get them germinated and even my pink bananas didn't work this year. Oh well. Next year I will buy in some Qld Blue, they are the most reliable methinks and maybe some Crown prince since you all rave about them!
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Post by: Nigel B on October 09, 2013, 18:48:31
Beautiful picture ... And THAT is what we're all about!

Great stuff indeed! Fantastic work Goodlife. Well done!
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Post by: squeezyjohn on October 09, 2013, 19:02:27
Congratulations Goodlife ... that's a real harvest festival and no mistake!
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Post by: cornykev on October 09, 2013, 19:19:31
Bloody ell looks like the harvest festival.    :blob7:
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Post by: Paulines7 on October 10, 2013, 00:40:25
Well done Goodlife; a really good harvest.
 
Title: Re: I just nip down to allotment...
Post by: goodlife on October 10, 2013, 09:42:32
Harvest is still on...and loads of swedes have gone into storage between layers of damp straw :icon_cheers: Squashes are still 'lingering', as I don't have foggiest idea where to store them in winter. Everywhere is full and more is yet to come. I made some room into small GH where they are kept away from the wet weather...for now. I suppose I need to find them 'resting place' soon before mice will find them out :BangHead:
And I haven't even started with my cabbages and yacon..oh, and I have still row of spud in ground too.. :BangHead:
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Post by: Biscombe on October 10, 2013, 09:57:27
Looks great!