Looks lovely Dove, very similar to ours they have a fisherman call on Wednesdays straight up from Cornwall with fish and lobsters. They started off with just a field with pick your own strawberries it’s just taken off from there. Got their own function rooms for weddings and now bought a farm for holiday lets. It’s nice to see these farm shops popping up in the country areas, all the locals have a job, and those who don’t work there, work in the Ambrosia factory. https://www.strawberryfieldslifton.co.uk/ thats not a very curmudgeonly post😀😀
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
My sister-in-law always has a houseful at Christmas. There were 10 last year and she already has her turkey in the freezer for this year. If these restrictions aren't lifted she'll be eating it for weeks.
On countryfile they were reporting from a Turkey farm, their problem is they rear birds that will grow to a certain size. Although they are spread across the weight ranges, they can't suddenly make most of them smaller, just because we will all want them.
@herbaceous I grappled with a large whole bird last year to make a crown to roast separately- never again. I know that it's more expensive to buy ready done but there is more than enough to do when catering for a dozen plus as it is.
No growbags here @Pansyface but I expect I spent more than that just on plants and they have to make do with horse muck for fertiliser. I've never priced fresh toms to compare but we do live eating freshly picked toms and I love having a supply of home-grown and home-made passata thru winter.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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I'm inclined to agree with you @pansyface I might have to start buying some soon, as there's not many left to ripen and I doubt they will. Considering they didn't really start producing anything until the end of July this year [and they're undercover] I sometimes wonder why I bother too. By August here - it's getting to be past summer food. I need toms that ripen in May
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yes I have already said this elsewhere but it's been another odd year. Even in the balmy south here the toms didn't start to ripen before the end of July (I have had them in June before). The thing is there is little to beat the taste of a home grown tom that is still warm from the sun picked straight off the plant. If I added all the costs of my allotment rent, seeds fertiliser, compost etc it probably does not make economic sense but then what else would I do with all that spare time.
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https://www.strawberryfieldslifton.co.uk/
thats not a very curmudgeonly post😀😀
I might have to start buying some soon, as there's not many left to ripen and I doubt they will. Considering they didn't really start producing anything until the end of July this year [and they're undercover] I sometimes wonder why I bother too.
By August here - it's getting to be past summer food. I need toms that ripen in May
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...