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Our Harvest 2023

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  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,236
    They look great @purplerallim and red ones too.

    You post the most amazing pictures of your produce @scroggin it all looks so good.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    Yes they are called Apache @Sheps a little milder than some like White Lisbon .
    I wish I had as big a plot as @scroggin appears to have. 
  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,236
    I will give them a try next year @purplerallim all mine this year have been White Lisbon so a little milder will be a nice change.

    Have to agree @scroggin grows some great looking produce.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Enough French beans off for dinner tonight.  Lots of raspberries,  some more cucumbers coming on,  not big enough yet for 6 big hungry snails. 
    Plenty of Romaine lettuces which are snails favourite. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • scrogginscroggin Posts: 437
    @purplerallim, @Sheps, I'm very lucky in that my allotment is only 200 yds from my front door. Makes watering etc easy, also means I can just pop over for what we fancy for dinner.
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    But @scroggin how do you harvest so many blueberries? We have netted aand still get few returns but we love the plants as they go through the seasons.
  • scrogginscroggin Posts: 437
    @bertrand-mabel, I've only just started picking the blueberries, it's been blackcurrant, redcurrants and gooseberries so far. 
    I've got 3 large blueberry bushes, looks like being a good crop. I have to net them, otherwise the birds have them all. Two of the bushes were from Lidl , £2 each, no idea what variety, they must be at least 10 years old now. I don't do anything special, the big ones are in 60l pots of standard ericaceous compost, I give them a liquid feed every couple of weeks as soon as the fruit appears.
  • scrogginscroggin Posts: 437
    Climbing french beans cropping well now( fingers crossed they withstand the forecast of high winds 🤞🤞). Cucumbers continue to do well and the blueberries are ripening.
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Managed to pick some more rhubarb inbetween the showers. Ready for jam making tomorrow.
    Bottled some elderflower wine...tastes good!
  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,236
    Fingers crossed 🤞 for you @scroggin mine have taken a real battering in the last few weeks and the same again tonight, on the strength of it I've ordered some Dwarf French Beans seeds for next year, the plants once grown should sit just nice below the windbreak and have a lot more protection.

    Nice rhubarb @bertrand-mabel I was given some yesterday, just need to decide what to do with it.


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