OH is really getting into cooking ... he's making an Indian with lamb tonight ... not sure what ... he really enjoys all the prep and getting the ingredients organised so I've a feeling that making sushi will be right up his street ... this https://www.sushisushi.co.uk/products/midi-sushi-kit looks like a possible
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Both my kids love sushi but Trill is obsessed. She's chosen it without a moment's hesitation for her last three birthday meals out. I was thinking of paying for her to go to a sushi class with a friend for her next birthday, but maybe a kit would be good?
My ipomoea lobata are finally flowering properly! So pleased - there was so much growth and no flowers, I'd almost given up on them. And the tricyrtis are also doing their thing, which I find just as exciting every year. Love the late summer garden.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Afternoon all. Had another busy day with Dad’s hospital appointments. His GP practice doesn’t offer post op wound care checks/dressings (!?!!) and the hospital tell you to have dressings at your practice with the nurse, so that has been a right palaver. I have willingly done it but, to make a point, we have booked (wasted) a GP appointment for the Dr to check it. If he won’t, then it’s a forty mile round trip to the hospital just for a dressing. Grrrrr.
Hooe you all ok. My Tricyrtis didn’t materalised this year (?) so it’s lovely to see one @LG_
dappled shade, my seasons are the opposite to yours. We are just coming out of winter here. The photo was from 2011. I’m never sure how much fruit we will get because the late frosts ruin the young buds.
Ah yes - just spotted the NSW at the bottom Pat E Here in London, we had a harsh start to spring and although the temperatures didn't chill out my tree, there were literally no pollinators to speak of when there ought to have been.
Shattered now. Been doing a primer coat of plain white paint on the walls of the shower room all pm. Will probably do another tomorrow before doing topcoats so I get a good finish that will last ages. Decided I was too tired to cook so we'd order pizza but they both close at 9pm! It was 9:07 when I phoned.
Might have enough energy to make a bacon butty.
Bummer about the pizza. Hate it when that happens. The other night, I ordered online sushi, paid etc and 1.5 hours later still nothing - they weren't open that evening at all, but the stupid site still allowed the order to go through. We were more starving than angry!
IMHO Spartan isn't tart, it's lovely and sweet. It's the only apple I've eaten straight from the tree and said " WOW " out loud, even though I was alone.
Sounds like my kind of apple Hosta. Never seen or heard of it 'til now though. Dos it grow on a very large tree, do you know and can it be stored, I wonder...?
That's very frustrating about your Dad's appointments, @AuntyRach. I do love the NHS but the 'being sent round the houses' experience is increasing, I think. I guess it's running on a shoestring :-(.
I had two tricyrtis completely eaten by slugs & snails so gave up and put a new one in a big pot (with a band of copper tape) a couple of years ago and it has thrived. Couldn't imagine my garden without one, I absolutely love them.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
IMHO Spartan isn't tart, it's lovely and sweet. It's the only apple I've eaten straight from the tree and said " WOW " out loud, even though I was alone.
Sounds like my kind of apple Hosta. Never seen or heard of it 'til now though. Dos it grow on a very large tree, do you know and can it be stored, I wonder...?
I'm not sure if it stores . It's only available in shops for a brief season, so my guess is probably not. Tree size is dictated by root stock, so , again I guess, it might be available in a range of sizes. Worth hunting out though.
Back when I was a teenager I spent one late summer/autumn apple picking fruit for Dan Neuteboom http://realenglishfruit.co.uk/ and it was there I came across Spartan apples ... delicious and absolutely beautiful on the tree ... he grew them as small trees that we could pick without ladders.
edited to say, having read further down on the gardenfocused link it goes on to say that. The problem with many apples in the shops is that they are picked too soon.
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My ipomoea lobata are finally flowering properly! So pleased - there was so much growth and no flowers, I'd almost given up on them. And the tricyrtis are also doing their thing, which I find just as exciting every year. Love the late summer garden.
Hooe you all ok. My Tricyrtis didn’t materalised this year (?) so it’s lovely to see one @LG_
Here in London, we had a harsh start to spring and although the temperatures didn't chill out my tree, there were literally no pollinators to speak of when there ought to have been.
Hate it when that happens.
The other night, I ordered online sushi, paid etc and 1.5 hours later still nothing - they weren't open that evening at all, but the stupid site still allowed the order to go through.
We were more starving than angry!
That recipe looks incredible...
Never seen or heard of it 'til now though.
Dos it grow on a very large tree, do you know and can it be stored, I wonder...?
I had two tricyrtis completely eaten by slugs & snails so gave up and put a new one in a big pot (with a band of copper tape) a couple of years ago and it has thrived. Couldn't imagine my garden without one, I absolutely love them.
This site https://www.gardenfocused.co.uk/fruitarticles/apples/variety-spartan.php says they lack flavour but in my opinion, and IIRC that of Dan N too, they develop a delicious honey flavour if left on the tree for a week or so after ripening.
edited to say, having read further down on the gardenfocused link it goes on to say that. The problem with many apples in the shops is that they are picked too soon.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.