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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 7, 2023 8:54:14 GMT
First tomatoes are ripening but we could do with some sunshine and warmth.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 7, 2023 21:07:23 GMT
But it's already August! Is this late for tomatoes where you live?
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 8, 2023 12:34:51 GMT
A bit late thanks to the weather.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 8, 2023 21:51:31 GMT
Do you go out and give them beady-eyed stares, just willing them to ripen? That's what I do to my okra plants -- will the flowers to open. I'm sure it will work any time now.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 16, 2023 13:08:59 GMT
Well done Mick! You are harvesting potatoes??? WOW, we are just putting our seed potatoes in the ground! Hope they come up as lovely as yours.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 20, 2023 21:12:17 GMT
My first real okra harvest from this garden! I had picked two pods on two different days earlier, but ate them while standing out in the yard. This is obviously a skimpy haul today, but there is more to come. There are five little green beans behind the okra -- what the bush bean harvest has dwindled to.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 21, 2023 9:21:57 GMT
Those look marvellous! So green and without blemishes. I think I must give Okra a go! The ones we get in the grocers shop are quite long in the tooth and very dehydrated. Probably come from Africa North of us.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 21, 2023 11:53:52 GMT
That is the exact quantity of okra that I need for most dishes, bixa. I still shudder at the idea that the Indian English name for okra is "lady's fingers." French just retained the original Angolan name "gombo."
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 22, 2023 4:12:47 GMT
It's certainly plenty for one person. Really, even if I didn't like okra so much I would want to grow it for its beautiful flowers and bold tropical look.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 28, 2023 10:38:39 GMT
Harvest time. we had asked friends to shop at our place and take some vegetables but it seems they left it there. we have a courgette as big as my forearm plus half my hand ! the leaks are superb the carrots are great and we had about 50 kgms of patatoes
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 28, 2023 12:48:17 GMT
You're going to get vegetable poisoning!
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Post by tod2 on Aug 28, 2023 16:25:10 GMT
Oh goodness me! What are these friends thinking......."Oh shit! we forgot those magnificent vegetables?" Leeks are not easy to grow.....OK are there any Welsh Gardeners out there? Everything looks fabulous!
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 28, 2023 21:26:40 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 29, 2023 18:42:12 GMT
The haul from the last couple of days, minus one that I ate. Bottom row was picked this morning. There are many more coming along out there.
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Post by lugg on Aug 29, 2023 19:54:20 GMT
What is that Bixa ? It looks good whatever it is
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 29, 2023 22:38:39 GMT
Lugg, those are these. If you scroll down to reply #4 in that link, there is a complete article about them. I don't think there are any pictures in that thread of the dark green ones I am growing now, as I don't remember seeing them before moving to Veracruz. Here they're called chayotes negros. The neighbor on the other side of the wall has a monster vine, some of which grows over to my side. Before I moved in, one of his chayotes fell on my side and sprouted, and I'm now harvesting from that. I spied a mound of them for sale in the morning market featured in Kerouac's Luang Prabang thread (Reply #27, first picture) -- anyportinastorm.proboards.com/post/413061/threadHere is an escapee from the neighbor's yard in my patio area next to the kitchen ~
In the back garden area growing here, there, & everywhere. Can't fit it all into the picture ~
It's no longer possible to tell which vines belong to which side of the wall ~
Not-quite-ready, but growing quickly to harvestable size ~
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Post by tod2 on Sept 6, 2023 11:19:31 GMT
Bixa, you must be delighted to have a garden as big as that now! I am off to the vegetable store to hunt down a Su-Su or two so I can also have such a wonderful vine. At the moment we have loads of these.....
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 6, 2023 11:30:52 GMT
Those are superb tod.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 7, 2023 1:03:59 GMT
Yes, indeed, Tod ~~ perfection!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 10, 2023 16:58:21 GMT
I grew carrots in a container...I didn't thin them as I thought that wuld risk carrot fly (and I was too lazy) Most have been washed, scraped, blanched and frozen. Jolly nice they are too.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 10, 2023 17:49:13 GMT
Crikey! You growing for Leicester?
Was the container an old bath?
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 10, 2023 17:54:27 GMT
Nope...just an old council recycling box.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 10, 2023 19:04:41 GMT
That's impressive. Then again, this was an unusual summer.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 11, 2023 23:36:21 GMT
Gosh, Cheery! That's really impressive. They have to be 1000% better than any that were lying around in a store.
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Post by tod2 on Sept 12, 2023 12:41:41 GMT
Golly Cheery, you have us green with envy! We cant seem to grow any decent carrots in containers or in the garden. You have done a marvellous job. Please tell me....did you freeze them whole?
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 12, 2023 12:51:21 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 13, 2023 4:17:57 GMT
Wow ~~ that's a treasure chest!
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 14, 2023 18:20:11 GMT
Now let's slaughter the pig and make some sausage to go with it!
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Post by lugg on Sept 20, 2023 19:32:10 GMT
Lugg, those are these. If you scroll down to reply #4 in that link, there is a complete article about them. Ah thank you Bixa What a gorgeous array of veg all. I have never thought about growing caulis in a pot before Tod , your carrots look yummy Cheery and Mick what a harvest.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 24, 2023 7:21:05 GMT
What happens when you don’t plug it out at the right time.
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