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Post by Baz Faz on Jun 17, 2022 23:13:31 GMT 2
Mrs Faz has picked broad beans. We had some for dinner tonight. I have frozen 3 meal portions.
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Post by sophie on Jun 18, 2022 4:12:35 GMT 2
The first romaine lettuce was picked. Very tasty especially considering the state of the garden area this time last year!
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Post by kuskiwi on Jun 18, 2022 7:57:38 GMT 2
Just had my garden mulched ready for the winter. Bit late and have missed for a couple of years due to lack ability to get deliveries.
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Post by Scrubb on Jun 19, 2022 23:57:28 GMT 2
We've been eating kale and arugula from the garden for the past few days! Also, I have a jalapeno, but it's still very small. Last year my pepper plants got really big - almost a meter tall - and had lots of fruits. This plant with the jalapeno already on it (maybe 5 cm long, but not big around) is only 15 or 20 cm tall! Maybe I'll pinch off some emerging fruits so that it can put its energy into growing the plant?
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Post by Baz Faz on Jun 20, 2022 10:26:37 GMT 2
Today I'll harvest our first aubergine. Our 2 plants will keep us supplied right through October.
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Post by Scrubb on Jun 20, 2022 23:51:42 GMT 2
We had such a hard rain today that i'm worried my garden might have been washed out. fingers crossed it's ok. once the (now light) rain stops and the sidewalks are walkable, I'll go take a look.
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Post by Baz Faz on Aug 13, 2022 13:36:09 GMT 2
We have 4 cherry tomatoes in pots by the house. Yesterday we ate the first of them - delicious. The plants have just reached the gutter so they need to have the growing tips cut off. Sad. It is a forewarning of the end of summer (never mind that it is 34c).
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Post by Baz Faz on Aug 19, 2022 17:55:17 GMT 2
The allotment is in full flow. Mrs Faz is there at the moment harvesting. We have courgettes, tomatoes, beans (purple and green), lettuces (green and dark red), beetroot, raspberries and blackberries.
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Post by Scrubb on Aug 19, 2022 19:05:39 GMT 2
We were eating kale and arugula throughout July, and also got several cucumbers then. I made refrigerator pickles, and gave a couple to Mom.
Then we were on holidays for 3 weeks. When we got home at the start of this week, I dug a couple hills of new potatoes - yum! Steamed some for my Mom as well as having a feast of them ourselves. There were a zillion cucumbers ready too - I gave some away, made more pickles, made tzatziki, and still have a few in the 'fridge and more coming!
Also have had 3 good size eggplants ready - think I'm going to make baba ghanoush. More are coming.
And, about 20 good size jalapenos were ready when we got home. I made poppers last night (stuffed the peppers with cheese, and put breadcrumb topping on before baking). They were pretty good, but I ate too many and my stomach is complaining a bit this morning. Still have about 6 of them, plus several more still coming on the plants. And habanero peppers - I planted 2 plants but only one has produced. They're pretty and firm, but very tiny.
My tomatoes are finally starting to ripen! I need to go check right now to see if any are ready to pick today. So far, I've found 1 ripe regular size one, 3 ripe cherry tomatoes ("yellow pear"), and 3 ripe ones that rotted while we were away (with stem blossom rot). I often have only a few tomatoes ripe in August, but we've had a hot summer so they're a bit further ahead than usual this year.
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Post by Baz Faz on Aug 24, 2022 17:03:36 GMT 2
We have more courgettes and beans than we can even give away,
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Post by sophie on Aug 24, 2022 23:05:28 GMT 2
Our garden is getting mangled (albeit carefully) by the backhoe working to put in a sump drain. On the plus side, many blackberry roots are out!
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Post by Baz Faz on Aug 25, 2022 17:29:56 GMT 2
We have had a few showers recently but not enough. As our area has no hosepipe ban I am going the water the flower beds.
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Post by auntieannie on Aug 25, 2022 20:39:35 GMT 2
nature is parched here. Except for the front garden of our building or so it seems.
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 21, 2022 18:10:39 GMT 2
I have picked almost the last sweetcorn cobs. The last ones I'll pick , cook and take off the cob and freeze. Mrs Faz has picked a lot of tomatoes and beans.
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 24, 2022 20:07:10 GMT 2
I have just ordered seeds for next year. I always like to try something new. Next year it will be red Orach.
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Post by sophie on Sept 24, 2022 21:31:50 GMT 2
Apparently orach spreads easily according to friends who have it in their garden
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 24, 2022 22:09:15 GMT 2
I've dried a lot of figs. there might be a couple to collect from the tree, although it's been much cooler so not sure. I'm drying aronia berries for my dad. I'll dry holy basil leaves for infusion once the dehyrator is available.
things are winding down, here. the grape harvest is mostly done.
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 28, 2022 18:30:54 GMT 2
The vegetable garden is coming to a halt. We picked the last corn (only 4 small cobs that I'll cook and take the kernels off and freeze). There are still beets and a few tomatoes and maybe courgettes.
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Post by Scrubb on Oct 11, 2022 6:03:57 GMT 2
I cleaned out my garden before I went on holidays, but hung the tomato plants that still had lots of green fruit in the garage, and Mr_S brought them in as they ripened. So we're still eating fresh tomatoes every day.
Also, I dug up 3 of my pepper plants and put them in pots. Came home to over a dozen ripened habaneros and the jalapenos growing nicely.
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Post by sophie on Oct 30, 2022 16:17:37 GMT 2
Yesterday I drive to our (old) neighborhood and came home with a pickup load full of well rotted horse and chicken poop. Then we got 6 loads of shredded leaf (already starting to rot) mulch and put it on the flower and veggie beds.
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Post by Baz Faz on Nov 11, 2022 18:24:56 GMT 2
Today I harvested our chillis. In SW France we could grow them outside. Here in SW England they are in our garden room. I keep them in the freezer. They are the descendants of seeds I bought in Bangkok about 12 years ago. They are small (one of the Thai terms is mouse shit chillies) but have not lost their fiery flavour.
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Post by Scrubb on Nov 12, 2022 7:36:30 GMT 2
I have a heap of habaneros from the plant I dug up and put in a pot and brought inside. I'm wondering if it might even just keep growing and producing more and more peppers.
Anyone know what I can do with about 15 or more habanero chillies??
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Post by Baz Faz on Nov 12, 2022 11:49:31 GMT 2
^^^ Freeze them?
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Post by Baz Faz on Nov 12, 2022 11:55:53 GMT 2
Last season we had terrible trouble with our broad beans. We sowed them direct in the soil in the allotment (as usual) but they were cut down as soon as they appeared. All of them. So this year I have sowed them in pots and put the pots safely on the windowsill in the dining room. They are germinating and looking good. We love broad beans provided they are picked young. And we love sowing them at this time of year as they offer pleasure after winter is over.
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Post by Voy on Nov 12, 2022 15:04:48 GMT 2
That's how I felt about parsnips - and always left some in the garden over the winter ( and they got frozen HARD) - it was such a treat to go out there as soon as the earth was soft enough to get them out -and have something fresh ! - even before the fiddleheads.
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Post by Baz Faz on Nov 12, 2022 18:56:49 GMT 2
We love parsnips. When we lived in France they were impossible to buy because the French thought they were cattle food. Another stubborn belief was with jerusallem artichokes. We had a patch of them (they simply came up year after year) but we couldn't give them away to French villagers. Why? We had to eat them during the war when food was short. This was said even by people who weren't born until the war was over.
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 12, 2022 20:03:37 GMT 2
Scrubb, I created a thread for you in the kitchen section. I was wondering how they would taste after a visit into your smoker?
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Post by Voy on Nov 13, 2022 2:17:54 GMT 2
Baz -I had never even heard of Jerusalem Artichokes until I live in England - and we always had fartichoke soup for lunch on shooting days ! I loved it so much that I planted a patch... I left the farm over 15years ago, and they are still growing there - you can never get rid of them !
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 13, 2022 10:09:06 GMT 2
ah, but parsnips and jerusalem artichokes are two different things!
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Post by Baz Faz on Nov 13, 2022 12:05:32 GMT 2
Indeed they are different veg.
Did you know that when you make soup from Jerusalem artichokes it is called Palestine soup?
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