Will we be having some challenge or modification for 2010?
Simply challenging the number or increasing the variety?
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Will we be having some challenge or modification for 2010?
Simply challenging the number or increasing the variety?
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Before this fades into oblivion, I'd just like to report that various of us were treated to a courgette supper on Saturday night, thanks to Molehill and the Missus, and they (the courgettes, that is) were extremely tasty!
So.. roll on next years crop!
Now... what am I going to do with myself for the next six months...
Now that the courgette season is over, Molehill can be consoled by this story
I find that rather disconcerting! Tortoise theft :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by XRunner
We read about that in the paper, strange what people will do for money :mad:. That's some collection of tortoises though :eek:.
Our 3 big ones are in a box in the kitchen slowly cooling down, their little toesies are withdrawing into their shells as they start the hibernating process.
Beastly Boris is under the woodburner being beastly.
Root vegetables are the way forward, anything growing in the air is shit; courgettes, tomatoes, aubergines, pumpkins all suck. Give me a warming hearty winter vegetable soup any day; carrotts, swedes, potatoes, leeks, onions all rock.
Are leeks a root veg?.....:confused:
and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like a soup with all rocks :rolleyes:
I thought so, you don't eat the leaves just the white bit that's underground. I'm going to have to wiki that one to be sure.
It doesn't say so i'm not sure now :confused:
Well, the one I've got sat in the kitchen, which I pulled yesterday.....Quote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
2" underground, theres a good 6" aboveground thats edible
I see, ok so i was wrong. Courgettes are still rubbish :D
Leeks are part of the onion family though, does this mean an onion is not a root veg?
Bog off my thread and start your own Todays Root Veg thread then :p.Quote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
Off i bog...:D
Ahem, is it ok to wake this one up?
I'm thinking about assembling a courgette, tomato, pepper and aubergine growing kit and am planning to attempt to grow them in pots that can be transported if my escape to Yorkshire campaign succeeds before the end of the summer.
So the big question.....what varieties might survive the shock of a journey north? Should I plant late?
Stef
Great, thanks Stef, I have been holding fire with my first post as there is a long season ahead, and heaven forbid that I should bore any newcomers to the forum :rolleyes:. Little do they know what is in store ;).
We have some of last years Romanesco seeds to grow again (they did well), and also Orelia and Tosca seeds to try out - well, we can't have too many courgettes can we?
Bit early to sow yet, needs to be into April for starting in propagator and planting out end May. We suffer frosts up here in the hills in May & June so have to cover them up at nights, hence tend to put them out late as possible.
Hi Moley :)Quote:
Originally Posted by molehill
If I sowed earlier down here but use one of these varieties do you think I could I get away with it? Assuming I'm unlikely to move before May the plants would be reasonably well advanced before being transported?
Mum says peppers and aubergines wouldn't grow up north :(
Hi Steff, We can't grow peppers or aubergines or tomatoes in our garden, too cold and on a North facing slope so fairly doomed, but friends do OK by growing them in a polytunnel. Courgettes need to be started at the end of March/beginning of April. You won't gain much by planting now, just as likely to damp off if you start too soon. Try them in big pots and probably a bush variety. Moley can't wait for the 'season' to start - he'll be looking for new courgette recipes to try. I've got loads of broadbeans coming along well and Boy Wonder has a stonking recipe for them - just a few calories !!:D
Hum...not sure a polytunnel in a pot is very achievable :D Might frighten away any prowlers though if I could manage a vertical one!Quote:
Originally Posted by The Missus
Not tomatoes? That's a disaster. And broadbeans instead?...yucky yuck...powdery green stuff!
End of March - looks like I have a bit more time for some more research and essential purchases then....like some pots for starters!!!
Thanks
Stef
Hurray...its started again!!!
Stef, I live in North Yorkshire and I have loads of success with tomatoes, courgettes and peppers but I do have a lean-to greenhouse and never put my courgettes outside before mid to late May since one year's disastrous cull by frost. Aubergines are a no-go unless you have a south facing conservatory with bags of sun and a heater. I have tried three years in a row and have only ever managed to get two aubergines the size of lemons.
I got over forty courgettes off of just two plants but compared to Moley that is nothing!
Oh yes...Mum has had success with a little upright polythene thingy that is like a mini-greenhouse and sits on her patio. It doesn't take up much space but she managed to grow quite a bit in it until it was warm enough to put them outside but she does live in Penzance...could work in Yorkshire?!:)
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Originally Posted by The Missus
Available for a modest fee...
There was nothing modest about that recipe! How many pounds of butter? Pints of cream? Slabs of Parmesan? :eek: Calorific? Nah!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Boy Wonder
Seeing Ceri tonight before off skiing tomorrow -when I'm back we'll arrange a weekend of tortoise racing - with my dodgy calf there's not much else I'll be doing!
Stef, I've been successful growing courgettes outside in Sheffield - don't think I planted them until late May though, but I just planted the seeds straight into my garden rather than starting them inside or in the greenhouse.
Humm....not knowing when the great escape will occur is making a decision difficult. I'm beginning to think I should leave planting as late as possible in the hope that I'll be a northerner in May. :cool:
I don't know whether I'll die of excitement or frustration before then :(
Or Edale might put and end to my suffering early :eek:
Today we collected 10 bags of pig muck (well rotted) from our friends the pig farmers - everyone should have pig farming friends ;) - next step is to oversee the Missus digging the holes and putting the pig poo into the holes.
Then all is prepared and waiting for spring:).
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Originally Posted by molehill
Today I bought seed compost, general compost, trays and grow bags :)
I have seeds for round courgettes and round carrots amongst other things :D
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Originally Posted by molehill
I think that you may well have just caused yourself a heap of trouble!
5 seeds each of 3 different varieties put on some damp kitchen roll in little plastic tubs. Placed on the window sill to catch the sun, I think this is for germinating them, and there's something called "chitting" happens :confused:.
Also 10 holes filled with pig poo and manure, ready and waiting.
All damn exciting for the following 6 months :D.
Planted the tubs in the greenhouse yesterday - 4 lots of tomatoes, 2 tubs of strawberries. 1 of scotch bonnet chillies and some herbs..... along with last week's spuds, and tomorrows courgette seeds, I'm feeling all "good life" this morning
We dug the veg patch yesterday and covered some bits in see-through plastic to warm the soil. The rhubarbs are coming up, but it'll be a month before we dare put any courgettes in. We're planning on 4 courgette plants this year after last year's 3 plants failed to have us overflowing with courgettes as promised.
Seeing as vegetable growing is the new fellrunning, have spent the weekend digging over the veggie plot, and hope to put in the ready-chitted Pink Fir Apple potatoes this pm.... watch this space for further news...
You are going to have how many courgettes this season :eek::eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by molehill
I need to get on with planning permission for my half acre of field, so I can start making some raised veg beds for courgette overload :)
I've been living off brocolli from the old dear's veg plot of late, mmm...irony (As in the element Fe not ironic posting:D)
I'm trying to think what irony tastes like in brocolli. It is bitter-sweet?Quote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
I think it is rather attractive if you have a magnetic personality:DQuote:
Originally Posted by noel
Opened (and drank) a bottle of bubbly tonight, to celebrate some seed germination :D. Life in Tylwch is full of excitment. The spring is sprung, the seeds is riz.....:rolleyes:
Tomorrow I will leave my head gardener responsible for planting out those first germinated seeds, and in a few days time - watch this space ;).
no seeds have germinated yet in North Wales, however the potatoes and onions have now been planted on the allotment, and the beetroot and parsnip seeds sown
Not courgette but with my bottom set year 9 (13 SEN pupils out of class of 14) have planted leaf salad (speedy seeds (3 week to picking)), potted on broad beans (1 for normal growth, 1 we'll make and use our own fertiliser) and also each person planted giant sunflowers.
Quite impressed that they all wanted to take part and actually do it. Next week is potting on a couple of tomoato plants (bought from garden centre as my Dad grows my tomatos from seed and I haven't picked any up yet)
Maybe there is hope in 'challenge' secondary schools!!
Oh no, that's frightening.
Ian, please don't let susceptible young children see you do that :eek:
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