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Harvest 2018

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  • Today picked 22 cherry tomatoes that makes 90 to date from two plants with almost as many left to ripen, plus another mini cucumber after a bit of a lull and there are another 5 ready soon. That's 24 from two plants to date. I do hope the warm weather continues.
  • Not 24 but 32 minis to date. Blond moment.🙄
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    I pulled out nearly all my tomato plants yesterday, only some red cherries left. Not getting anything edible anymore, 5 weeks of constant rain caused everything to split. But we got 150kg of tomatoes this year from 24m2 so I am very happy. cucumbers are still going strong, though the compost heap is getting most to be honest. 50kg of them is way way too much! all in all it went well despite 10weeks with no rain and then nothing but rain. the weeds are certainly loving it right now.
    Off to look up if I can dig up a chili plant and put it in a pot. I need to take the pollytunnel down before the autumn storms hit and murder it (one is already down) but I have 6 lovely chili plants in it and they are covered in green chilies, I want some more red ones!
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    @Allotment Boy thank you for that, sometimes I just need a nudge even when I think I know what I'm doing! I might try one of them, or some at least, have to freeze the rest of it. Thank goodness for the freezer  :)

    @Skandi I don't like chillies much but I feel your pain, I grow one plant in the greenhouse every other year because they look nice in the dill pickle I make with cucumbers. Also have a gallon and a half of cucumber soup, had to use half as many again of my onions for it though, they were a bit small this year. Also chilli is handy to flavour the green tomato chutney.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • I would recommend removing the squash if the plant is dead herbaceous - store the squash in a sunny position (we have a cold greenhouse) or a bright window sill until the skin is golden in colour. Use in soup, pie, adds colour to stews, they do freeze well too - just peel and chop up.
  • Yesterday's haul off allotment.  Two  carrier  bags  of tomatoes , and  one of borlotti  beans ,  a small  butternut  squash,  two  sweet  corn, some green  beans,courgettes, blackberries and raspberries. 
  • Do wish I had an allotment.... never mind at least I have twice the room I used to have.😀
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Thank you for that GD, been trying to grow them as I love squash and sweet potato mash
     
    That looks a really lovely harvest Tessa, you know autumn is coming when you spend more time in the kitchen than the garden!

    The trouble with gardens purplerallim is they are like chest freezers - never big enough  :)  Oh and if you have a bigger garden you need a bigger chest freezer  :D
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • Well @herbaceous I did get a chest freezer, supposedly to stock up for when hubby has his operation (which has been cancelled three times and should happen Thursday) , but it does seem to be full of French beans and cucumber soup most everything else has been eaten. Not the toms they made tom pickle and today is tom sauce day. Maybe that will end up in the freezer......
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Fingers crossed for Thursday @purplerallim, I've always thought that is quite cruel to psyche yourself up for something like that and then - nothing. I understand why it happens most of the time but it's still not a good thing.

    I'm on my own now so grow what I need to be able to pick (defrost) as I need it and I find the cucumber soup goes down well in colder weather as it reminds me of days in the greenhouse - though maybe not this year! And it's lovely with home made bread which uses up some of the energy (frustration?) I can't expend in the garden.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
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