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  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    Purplerallim , never had cucumber 🥒 in soup ? O/H has sliced and pickled them in past when we have had to many 

    Been to allotment late afternoon to burn all the prunings , also dead headed Dalias & roses 🌹 
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    @GWRS we are not allowed bonfires until November.
    AB Still learning

  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    I use the cicumbers just like courgettes @GWRS ,  de-seeded and skins removed if they are the tough variety , and surprisingly they hold there shape. Its good hot or cold, chunky or smooth.
  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    Allotment Boy , our plots are in a rural position so no problem with near by housing , you have to use a fire dustbin , we do have a half plot at the bottom of the site which you can take stuff for burning , it’s full of mares tail , unfortunately somebody rotated it and made it so bad it’s been abandoned 

  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Ah I understand 
    AB Still learning

  • Got the last of the late main crop (Sarpo Mira) spuds out yesterday the soil was quite wet in places. A lot of slug damage again, very annoying as I spent out on Nematode treatments for slugs and other ground pests such as wireworm.  At this rate I may have to give in like some of my fellow plot holders, & only grow first & second early varieties, as they generally don't get hit with slug damage.
    AB Still learning

  • Have been doing alot of harvesting, and making out if the produce.
    My fun bit this week was entering a virtual veg show. My tomatoes came 1st out of 8.🥳 never entered a show before.😁
  • Hello that is great was the show done though photos or videos
    Busy here building chicken run shelter with plastic roofing sheets, lots of strimming (battery strimmer) and now my arm is really sore so heat pack on
    No bonfires on our site at minute the council will review in November cause of covid

    Found out this week neighbour giving up plot as new ish child so have 3 kids to look after - there plot has mainly weedy and grass over now -  because they have not been here been in Poland family there and they are polish
    so will be new plot holders either side this year
    Hampshire Gardener
  • Did up load a photo, but it seems to have vanished. 🤔 It was a photo entry 

  • They do look good nice size, what variety are they
    Hampshire Gardener
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