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Harvest 2018

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Fingers crossed for you @purplerallim - I was gutted when the stem on mine got crushed last year. It still produced 1 or 2 a day, but the plant looked sad.
    Not going to let that happen again this year.
    In this really hot weather, I've been giving the pot 6L twice a day and feeding 3x a week - so far so good.
    And I've just picked another for my sarnie - so that's 14 picked today and a total of 120 in just under one month.
    Just wish the toms would hurry up..


    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    Just sent two cues to my egg man, but I am seriously thinking of braking out the cucumber soup pan.😁wish the toms would hurry up too. 
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    The daily picking of raspberries is now exceeding the amount I can eat for breakfast, I feel a cheesecake coming on.  Cooking gooseberries are ready for a second picking, the dessert gooseberries almost ready for the first.  The rhubarb hasn't even noticed the drought.
  • That has to be something of a record Pete8?  Have you contacted the seed company with your 120 and counting.  I am lucky to get half a dozen from my plants - in a very hot conservatory, but without the elaborate support that you have (a couple of bamboos and some fine mesh netting).  Well done!
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Thanks GD
    I think that's just the way the mini-cue's are.
    I watched a you-tube clip a while ago and there was a single plant (grown in the ground in a greenhouse) that must have had well over 100 on it.
    I got lots last year too from the same variety - until the stem got crushed. So I thought this year I'd keep a tally.
    The support is just clematis net that I've tied to the eaves

    It beats my 83g of blueberries so far :)

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • Jason-3Jason-3 Posts: 391
    First crop of plum tomatoes just enough to make a sauce with hime grown basil and garlic. Which has dried beautiful in the baking sun...


  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    Oh I've just made pickled cucumber . Should be ready tomorrow, if hubby lets it last that long.😁
  • Womble54Womble54 Posts: 348
    Nice morning in the garden. First batch of cherry tomatoes and pulled up these funny little round atlas carrots.


  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    Nice haul carrots would look nice in a salad.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    First of the cauli's and last of the broad beans:


    Stomach now rumbling! :)
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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