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Went down to the allotments this morning to collect some veg for my families Christmas dinners and found it a bit bleak & cold  this is what I saw and collected;

Looking up the plots from the entrance gate;



Looking across one of my plots to the brassica beds;



and this was the Leek bed;




The harvest;








Whils't I am on let me wish you all the happiest of Christmas's, because I don't know if I will be near my PC for the next few days..................I've a bit of eating & drinking to do ;D

Looks Great Tee Gee and if I don't see you until after have a great Christmas!
;D

I'm green with envy - those brussel sprouts are to die for. Have a wonderful christmas.

Much better sprouts than ours... good leeks and cabbage though. We are still cutting Minicole, which is a summer cabbage that stands well, and is refusing to die in the frosts!
;D

Our Savoys are refusing to grow - what variety, TG?

Quote from: tim on December 24, 2007, 07:11:56
Our Savoys are refusing to grow - what variety, TG?

i picked my largest savoy last night and the head was about the size of a grapefuit. A rather small grapefruit ??? So, i picked a couple more to keep us going.

Your produce looks super TeeGee as always. I am going to try growing brusssels next year. Happy Christmas.

Top bannana TG and Merry Christmas.  ;D ;D ;D

My savoy cabbage aren't that big either. You can check out my Christmas veg on my blog site.

Well done to all us veg growers for all the hard work we have put in but its been worth it hasn't it............ :)

Merry Christmas!

Quote from: tim on December 24, 2007, 07:11:56
Our Savoys are refusing to grow

Same here. Decent size outer leaves on some but no head of heart within.

Quote from: ktlawson on December 24, 2007, 21:38:37

Quote from: tim on December 24, 2007, 07:11:56
Our Savoys are refusing to grow

Same here. Decent size outer leaves on some but no head of heart within.

Mine are the same :(

I don't grow many cabbages - but the ones I did were very small this year. Rest of the Christmas veg have been lovely and I will post a piccy. It really is an achievement to think the only think that I haven't grown myself for the main dinner is the turkey.............maybe next year! :)

Very nice, am a little ashamed this year at the small amount of home grown veg in my Christmas dinner. Brussels, potatoes, parsnips - all shop bought :( but the beans and roast squash were mine  :)
As an aside, one year I was very hard up and so very pleased to be able to give some lovely stalks of Brussels sprouts to members of the family for small Christmas gifts to have for their dinner, might seem strange but it was all I had to give and they did seem the be appreciated (or maybe they're just all very polite  ;D)

total feast  ;D

I would expect good veggies from you hun  :D
I hope to have veggoes from my allotments next year on the Christmas table  :)

No parsnips, TG??

We managed  (very small) sprouts and parsnips from the plot for ours. Thought about including some jerusalem artichokes but thought they might not be appreciated! Kicking ourselves today because we forgot the sweetcorn from the freezer- could have been something to do with finding the oven had stopped working and having to drive the turkey to a friend's house to cook it!

Is the cooker dead then? Will it need replacing or was it just sulking?
Our srouts were small but tasted great, haven't taken any JA's up yet....

I took parsnips, spuds,2 savoys, 1 other cabbage can't remember which and carrots around my sisters Christmas day.  ;D ;D ;D

Nice pics. Sorry to hear about the cooker Caroline-what a bum*er.

Parsnips,leeks and carrots were good for the day but the spud experiment was a total failure.Sprouts were OK,my soil is too light for really good ones.

My avatar gives a glimpse of the winter during  lottie days in Leeds!!

Probably the element, saddad, but it's the second time it's gone and we've never been that happy with the oven anyway. Also m-i-l has offered to pay for a new one, so think we'll be off to the sales in the next couple of days.Does anyone here subscribe to Which? magazine?

I forgot to get photos, but i had a wonderful harvest of carrots, parsnips and sprouts. The sprouts were small but very sweet and yummy. I also got some lettuce, spring onions and onions which i used for some smashing sandwhiches yesterday.