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Our Harvest 2023

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  • @scroggin that is a super Butternut .  How many would you expect to harvest each year ?  Love them but no longer have the room here.  Well done you  :):)
  • @philippasmith2, thanks. On average I get 3 to 4 per plant, I'm lucky to have an allotment so can let them roam. This year I'll have about 30 from 8 plants. They store well, so after giving a few away we'll have enough to see us through to the spring.
  • @philippasmith2, this is from late July, a mixture of butternut and Crown Prince, if I didn't pinch out the leaders they'd take over the plot 😂
  • Fabulous @scroggin I has to give up my Allotment some years ago - did the Butternuts but never quite as prolific as yours. 
    Thanks for the pics and enjoy your harvest  :)  
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Usual French ,  runners,  tomatoes & cucumbers,  fed up with them now,  must rethink for next year.  We really don’t need all this food.  I’ll get rid of some rhubarb crowns and have already dug out a row of raspberries.

    picked the last of the peppers today,  would rather have left them on the plants but I’m fed up with them.  In the freezer they’ll go.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    edited September 2023
    Harvested yet more red/black grapes. Bumber crop. Have tried different ways  to  save them but not sure as we can't eat them all so quickly. Still a great vendange.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Do you put the grapes straight in the freezer,  they’ll be nice for juice later. 
    I don’t have grapes but I do that with rhubarb and raspberries. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • EustaceEustace Posts: 2,290
    Chillies picked:

    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 :)

  • @Lyn I deseed them before putting them in the freezer. "Tried" to make grape jam but it hasn't set well...so runny jam on toast for all. I freeze rhubarb, gooseberries, blackcurrants and this year gages. They all keep well and are great to have over the winter months.
  • This morning's picking, the Cobra beans are still flowering 😊. Sweetcorn coming to an end and the last calabrese head( hopefully they'll throw out some smaller florets now).
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