Hows your allotment doing?

[VEG]

Great photos of the pigs

 

[Luminos]

I'm speechless (for once), they are soooo cute...hope the poorly one gets better soon

 

[freethorpe bees]

What lovely pics of the pigs, wish I had more land, money, time .....

Anyway, tomatoes, beetroot, potatoes , lots of successes this year, also a few failures, lettuce ( too hot I think), also butternut squash which is unusual. Peas not brilliant, beans very slow to start but now coming out of our ears!

 

[drstitson]

when the piglets are a bit bigger (just before weaning) why not post a videoclip of them suckling.

wonder how many will think them cute then and how many of our female colleagues either instinctively clutch a protective arm across their chest or decide kids may not be for them!!!

 

[gingerbees]

Hedges layed after a fashion at ours now, the light has improved so much

http://www.landshare.net/users/guy-and-tracey/blog/23-august-2011-bees-back-on-form-and-hedges-layed/

 

[aberreef]

when the piglets are a bit bigger (just before weaning) why not post a videoclip of them suckling.

wonder how many will think them cute then and how many of our female colleagues either instinctively clutch a protective arm across their chest or decide kids may not be for them!!!

Too right. They are bad enough now at 2 weeks. Poor Selma

 

[busybee53]

At last an hour or two gap in the rain. Harvested two types of beans, pumpkin, butternut squash, cuecumber, carrots, tomatoes and sweet corn. Nice. and time to get a few weeds out too.

 

[aberreef]

To add to my veggie blues, my tomatoes have got a major case of blight

At least my veg can't get any worse this year. There's bu**er all left

 

[busybee53]

So sorry to hear about the bad year you are having Abereef. Have you tried the blight resistant tomatoes called Ferline?. They medium sized red tomatoes. I grow them every year now and it even works when I save seed from my own tomatoes for the next year.

 

[aberreef]

I treid them a few years back but haven't suffered so badly with blight until this year. I've cut all the affected growth out and there's still plenty of green tomatoes. Now I've got to hope they ripen REALLY quickly

 

[VEG]

Either that or green tom chutney lol

 

[robsbees]

we've had better allotment success this year,

have only harvested 1st earlies (winston) and some pink fir apples - got a whole carrier bag full from just 2 plants,
cabbages are canny, not much caterpillar damage
cauli's are ok, but didnt know to bend leaves over curds so have done that over remaining ones, ravaged by caterpillars, will use enviromesh next year
still geting courgettes by the armful, don;t know why I plant 4 courgette plants lol far too many for the two of us
brussels sprouts coming on canny, some caterpillar damage but not too bad,
french beans are doing well now, bit later than expected
peas are finished
had loads of small beetroot thinnings and the others that have been left in are doing well
turnips looking good, not sure when they're to be lifted
tomatoes rubbish in the polytunnel, DH thinks they'd be better in a proper greenhouse
squashes are taking over the garden, tried one the other day but very watery
eating and cooking apples coming on a treat,
rhubarb still growing well too

looking forward for the berries and crab aples to be ready so I can get jamming

kx

 

[psafloyd]

Either that or green tom chutney lol

I've frozen 7kg of green tomatoes over the past two days and still more to go...

 

[busybee53]

What will you use all the green toms for psafloyd?

 

[psafloyd]

What will you use all the green toms for psafloyd?

Green tomato chutney, instead of the usual kinds.

 

[busybee53]

Wish my lot liked green tomato chutney. I couldn't even give it away so I don't make it any more. They just have to ripen off in the greenhouse or indoors. Last year there were still a few left up to mid December but we geo through them in the end.

 

[gingerbees]

i made some Green tom chutney last year and it went down well, the remainder of the green toms went into normal chutney and I didnt tell anyone

 

[gingerbees]

Although seeing as tracey and I post using this same log in, I guess she at least will know now lol

 

[Erichalfbee]

Fried green tomatoes are very tasty and the best green chutney recipe I have tried is the River Cottage Seasonal Chutney which used marrows or courgettes with the tomatoes.

 

[gingerbees]

Thats the recipe I use, infact the whole book is very good