Look good. I was given a patty pan squash today. One of the men who helps at the food bank brought a lot of runner beans, some beetroot, marrows and squashes for us volunteers. He grows them on his allotment. So far I have managed potatoes and a few sugar peas. The blackberries are coming on though, and I picked enough yesterday to have with some strawberries and ice cream.
Went out into the garden yesterday evening and the smell of the buddhlia was amazing.
Woo
Joined: 19 Sep 2011 Posts: 787 Location: Mayenne, Pays de Loire
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 16 2:11 pm Post subject:
We were given a basket full of mirrabelles yesterday by our lovely neighbour.
today they are jam, stewed spiced plums, vanilla stewed plums ready for the store cupboard and freezer and a plum cake for tea.
I'm a bit warm now...
its 40 degrees on the monitor and the pool looks tempting despite being full of noisy beasties.
My chilli plants are absolutely bursting with chillis this year, I can't keep up with picking them and we can't eat that much chilli so I think some people are going to be getting chilli oil for Christmas
Woo
Joined: 19 Sep 2011 Posts: 787 Location: Mayenne, Pays de Loire
My chilli plants are absolutely bursting with chillis this year, I can't keep up with picking them and we can't eat that much chilli so I think some people are going to be getting chilli oil for Christmas
they freeze well, not that chilli oil isn't great. I still have bag from 3 years ago which I dip into and grate into food from frozen.
My kale is still producing gently, we have had a couple (and I mean just a couple) of runner beans, and the odd handful of mange tout peas. The sprouting broccoli has finally started to grow, so although I am not expecting much through the winter, we will have some of our own veg.
gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8938 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 16 8:01 pm Post subject:
The Tuscan Cavolo Nero kale is doing very well in the raised bed..quite closely planted, thankfully in this wind! Looking forward to overwintering leeks too.
We're pleasantly surprised at how much we've had from two 6'x3'beds and one metre square bed.
My chilli plants are absolutely bursting with chillis this year, I can't keep up with picking them and we can't eat that much chilli so I think some people are going to be getting chilli oil for Christmas
they freeze well, not that chilli oil isn't great. I still have bag from 3 years ago which I dip into and grate into food from frozen.
Thanks for this suggestion, I was thinking of drying them but maybe now I think I might freeze some instead
I tried the other sort of kale last year, but didn't like it as much as curly and it was no better at overwintering, so have gone back to curly this year. I have a few leeks in, but they didn't do very well, and son dropping some branches on them not noticing they were there didn't help much either.
Slim
Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 6612 Location: New England (In the US of A)
I tried the other sort of kale last year, but didn't like it as much as curly and it was no better at overwintering, so have gone back to curly this year. I have a few leeks in, but they didn't do very well, and son dropping some branches on them not noticing they were there didn't help much either.
If by the "other kale" you mean a toscano variety, we grow it exclusively. Much better for making smoothies in the morning!
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