Some of our Concorde pears picked today to ripen over the next week or so. Not a huge crop this year because of the weather at blossom time, but the damp weather has ensured lovely large fruit.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
A plug for Bruce and his veg trials and study in Research Education and Development gardens project in Tipperary. His vids are very worth following. Fascinating and very professional.
Picked today morning: tomatoes, chillies and a lone green eggplant. These tomatoes are from a plant which grew when I plonked a piece of accidentally broken stem into a pot sometime in July/August.
Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth
Beetroot, turnip's, leeks, parsnips, chard and spinach are are being gathered regularly. The turnip's have been very nice even if there aren't loads, they do seem a fickle crop to grow.
Is there a lack of turnips this year?, went to order from Tesco, 55p each and reviews said they were as big as a golf ball. picked onion, leek and parsnips for dinner yesterday. Parsnips should be left in the ground until the frost, couldn’t wait though. still got Sam Marzano ripening in the greenhouse, hopefully won’t be any green ones left, don’t like them and will through away, but never, as yet had that problem. The weather is being very kind to us this year crop wise.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Now are we talking turnip or swede? To me turnips are white, and swede is yellow with a red top ( this could cause trouble 😆) Have had this out with the hubby, he's an invader to Lincolnshire, 😁 so it's a regional thing. If we are talking swede, the caterpillars have got mine.🙄
Turnip's, I've read on here people saying they are hard to grow reliably. Dead easy as a commercial crop, used to grow 100 acres for supermarket trade years ago.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
picked onion, leek and parsnips for dinner yesterday. Parsnips should be left in the ground until the frost, couldn’t wait though.
still got Sam Marzano ripening in the greenhouse, hopefully won’t be any green ones left, don’t like them and will through away, but never, as yet had that problem. The weather is being very kind to us this year crop wise.