Sounds like a delicious meal herbaceous - the soup and tasty cheese and bacon bread - a great lunch. I can hardly wait to harvest my first cucumber now I have the soup reciepe to try out too...
I picked our first courgettes yesterday - 12 plants means lots of courgettes to eat, sell, give away/freeze - we do this every year as it is an easy crop. I wish my daughters would take up the gardening challenge as your youngest has - we share our garden with them and their partners but as I no longer work I seem to be doing the lion's share of it. Of course I don't mind as I think the situation suits everyone at the moment and I love being outdoors anyway.
Oh Nanny! I think it must be a bloke thing, this obsession with protein, both of my sons-in-law are the same and my husband (no longer with us sadly) thought cow pie the best ever. Hence the cheese and bacon bread which seems to soften the chore of lunch with the Mother-in-Law!!
GD2, did you see? They are repeating The Big Allotment Challenge from last year and yesterday it was the cucumbers. That was eerie...... I have mixed feelings about the programme but watched it as it was the reason I had a go at cucumber last year.
As for courgettes, I'm not bothering this year as I had so many I was fed up with them and they take up quite a bit of space so this year I am venturing into squash, we'll see what happens with those bad boys.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
Oh no, what a pity I missed that programme about cucumbers herbaceous - I didn't even know that it was being repeated. Does that mean that they won't be running a new series this year? I really enjoyed the last two that were shown - I mean gardening is supposed to be one of the most popular British pastimes and yet we don't see enough of it on the t.v. do we?
I agree that courgettes do take up a lot of room but my husband doesn't have the same interest in gardening as he used to have and his domain always was the veg. patch - so we (I) grow a lot of courgettes to fill the space where once he would have had strawberries, potatoes, peas & beans growing. I find I am doing his share as well as mine these days - oh dear! Give him his due he does do the heavy stuff like cutting hedges and barrowing soil and lifting for me. I hope you get some help with the heavy work too herbaceous?
GD2, BBC iPlayer if you want to watch it. If there was a series this year I missed it too, its usually Jan/Feb isn't it? Sorry this wasn't posted last night but I was having the worst time with refreshing this site and the browser finally froze.
As for help with heavy stuff - there's just me. Since I don't have a car I do put the bite on the girls to get me compost and suchlike and then its down to me and my sackbarrow. Occasionally call in the troops for my pots, stuff like the Bay tree or repotting the Cordylines, and my grandson is very good at digging dinosaur traps which I can expand for the Runner Beans!
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
I know it's not the same herbaceous, but you have done well to get the help of your daughters and grandson when needed. I would be lost without my garden and your offspring obviously realize that your garden is where you are happiest, so good that they are rallying around to help you.
I agree that 16 cucumbers would take up a heck of a lot of space, care and watering - how do you manage to fit them all in Logan? I have 3 and they use all the available space that I have in the conservatory - as well as a lovely bougainvillea in there too.
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Thanks herbaceous, I spent a week thinking "am I wasting my time watering this thing?" But my patience paid off in the end.
Look on the bright side, a couple of weeks behind the other means i won't end up with a glut of cukes.
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No point in gardening if you aren't an optimist
I am also quite late with everything (domestic issues with water) but I didn't lose anything in the storms so my garden goblin saves me again.........
Sounds like a delicious meal herbaceous - the soup and tasty cheese and bacon bread - a great lunch. I can hardly wait to harvest my first cucumber now I have the soup reciepe to try out too...
I picked our first courgettes yesterday - 12 plants means lots of courgettes to eat, sell, give away/freeze - we do this every year as it is an easy crop. I wish my daughters would take up the gardening challenge as your youngest has - we share our garden with them and their partners but as I no longer work I seem to be doing the lion's share of it. Of course I don't mind as I think the situation suits everyone at the moment and I love being outdoors anyway.
OH just does not like salad says my diet consists of rabbit food and bird seed!!!!
Oh Nanny! I think it must be a bloke thing, this obsession with protein, both of my sons-in-law are the same and my husband (no longer with us sadly) thought cow pie the best ever. Hence the cheese and bacon bread which seems to soften the chore of lunch with the Mother-in-Law!!
GD2, did you see? They are repeating The Big Allotment Challenge from last year and yesterday it was the cucumbers. That was eerie...... I have mixed feelings about the programme but watched it as it was the reason I had a go at cucumber last year.
As for courgettes, I'm not bothering this year as I had so many I was fed up with them and they take up quite a bit of space so this year I am venturing into squash, we'll see what happens with those bad boys.
Oh no, what a pity I missed that programme about cucumbers herbaceous - I didn't even know that it was being repeated. Does that mean that they won't be running a new series this year? I really enjoyed the last two that were shown - I mean gardening is supposed to be one of the most popular British pastimes and yet we don't see enough of it on the t.v. do we?
I agree that courgettes do take up a lot of room but my husband doesn't have the same interest in gardening as he used to have and his domain always was the veg. patch - so we (I) grow a lot of courgettes to fill the space where once he would have had strawberries, potatoes, peas & beans growing. I find I am doing his share as well as mine these days - oh dear! Give him his due he does do the heavy stuff like cutting hedges and barrowing soil and lifting for me. I hope you get some help with the heavy work too herbaceous?
GD2, BBC iPlayer if you want to watch it. If there was a series this year I missed it too, its usually Jan/Feb isn't it? Sorry this wasn't posted last night but I was having the worst time with refreshing this site and the browser finally froze.
As for help with heavy stuff - there's just me. Since I don't have a car I do put the bite on the girls to get me compost and suchlike and then its down to me and my sackbarrow. Occasionally call in the troops for my pots, stuff like the Bay tree or repotting the Cordylines, and my grandson is very good at digging dinosaur traps which I can expand for the Runner Beans!
I've made cucumber and chilli pickle, I grow 16 plants so I can make that
Logan you must have a small holding! Where do you find the space for 16, I barely manage 1 but I like the idea of the pickle, does it keep?
Would be nice to another option if mine survive this weird weather..........
I know it's not the same herbaceous, but you have done well to get the help of your daughters and grandson when needed. I would be lost without my garden and your offspring obviously realize that your garden is where you are happiest, so good that they are rallying around to help you.
I agree that 16 cucumbers would take up a heck of a lot of space, care and watering - how do you manage to fit them all in Logan? I have 3 and they use all the available space that I have in the conservatory - as well as a lovely bougainvillea in there too.