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Post by Ali on Aug 14, 2011 16:18:40 GMT 1
............... more tomatoes including Elkays little yellow ones which are sooooooooooo cute Some cob nuts (big hazel nuts) which are delish. Some eggs............
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Post by Elkay on Aug 14, 2011 16:55:30 GMT 1
Yeah, those little yellow ones look lovely on the table - and they taste nice and sweet, too.
Today I picked lots of french beans and a couple of courgettes, yet more plums - and I made damson jam with damsons my neighbour gave me
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Post by Granada Gordon on Aug 14, 2011 20:24:56 GMT 1
And we picked a big punnet of Tumbling Tom little tomatoes today and a friend brought us a box of 60 + fresh figs.... .. We've frozen most of them...otherwise we might have had a problem.. Regards, GG...The Regular One....
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Post by Madame Moorhen on Aug 15, 2011 7:25:02 GMT 1
I went over to my orchard (across the road) and picked/collected some windfall apples, elderberries and the first walnuts - from my neighbour's tree which overhangs my orchard. I picked an apple straight off the tree and ate it and it's ready already. Please tell me it is still mid August not mid September. I also picked all my Quetsh plums - 8 in total from my young tree. AND I'm picking the usual strawberries/raspberries/tomatoes every day too, and every few days French beans and courgettes. Need to pull up loads of stripy beetroot so will have to make more muffins! It's always crazy at this time of year!
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Post by Madame Moorhen on Aug 15, 2011 7:26:04 GMT 1
Ali's blackberries are not good though - either going all shrivelled before ripening or have got manky bits on the outside - so am just chucking them to the chickens.
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Post by <-Rinky-Dink-> on Aug 15, 2011 21:30:06 GMT 1
That´s a lot of cucumbers,I suppose there is a limit on what you can do with them. Cucumbers are supposed to be very good for your skin. You can cut them into longish (about 3 inches) chunks, then cut each chunk lengthways. Rub the flesh all over your skin (especially your face), makes a very good moisturiser apparently. They are also packed with antioxidents so just each a chunk whenever you fancy something to nibble on, skin and all ...
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Post by Madame Moorhen on Aug 16, 2011 6:46:35 GMT 1
Can't eat the skin of outdoor cucumbers, they are very tough and spiky! Anyway they're dead now, can I rub tomatoes all over me instead?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2011 18:42:16 GMT 1
Cabbage, white, early, small but firm, Minicole F1. Good for steaming or stir frying with onion and bacon.
Following on from simson's aubergine topic - I think more people should 'do a simson' and ask a silly question, which wasn't silly at all, and even if it were it wouldn't matter, cos it would still keep you anoraks happy - I decided to leave the cabbage stalk in the ground so that it would go on to produce spring greens.
I noticed how hard and woody the stalk was and began to wonder if there was a connection between woodiness and a plant's ability to over-winter and grow again.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that things which are hard and stiff are better than those which are soft and limp. Now aubergines produce woody, hard stems, peppers less woody, and toms even less woody. So I'd expect aubergines to re-grow more readily than toms.
Coming back to the cabbage stalk, which at the least is less vulnerable to rot than softer plant tissue might be (pelargs?), then we can say that all of the cabbage family is essentially perennial, but we grow them as annuals for reasons not known.
Would love to know if any of you anoraks has ever left a purple-sprouting stalk in the ground, and if it's gone on not just to produce spring greens, but the whole branch system and flowers?
Ps: Try and catch the horror film on the B-movie channel tonight - 'March of the Anoraks! - it's as scary as hell!
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Post by Elkay on Nov 1, 2011 18:57:08 GMT 1
Have never tried leaving greens in like that, annon, as I am usually needing the space from whence they have come. However, you have taught me something already - I finished clearing out the polytunnel and was about to dig up my last basil plant (I'd just put loads of basil plants I'd grown from seed early in the season all round the tomato plants) and I noticed just how woody the stems had become. So I stripped off and froze most of the leaves and I've cut the plant down quite a bit - I feel tempted to leave it where it is - what do you think?
I will try the thing with the greens, I have a couple of cabbages still growing
LK
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2011 19:51:26 GMT 1
Hi Elkay,
Your enthousiasm and enquiring mind will turn us all into anoraks in no time at all! 'Though I will resist until my last dying breath...
Basil (Ocimum basilicum) is definitely an annual, and grows rather lush, but as with toms, there are probably variants (cultivars) now sold which may have a perennial ability. So you could have stumbled upon something which is a massive break-through! It could be bigger than the biggest bigness!
And I've got a basil plant in a pot ...... with a woody stem! It's not possible to get more excitement than this when you're not inside a lap-dancing club! So if you don't mind I'll do the same as you and over-winter it.
Ps: 'Chantelle' sends her regards. And Guido, from the local Italian take-away, is planning on opening an outlet in Brittany, and expects to 'make a killing', owing to the lack of competition. I'll keep you posted.
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