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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 24, 2023 9:28:17 GMT
My brother just wrote me to describe his garden, and it's pretty much the same situation, except for the marijuana plants creating too much shade over the tomatoes.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 24, 2023 11:24:40 GMT
Rainbow carrots today
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 24, 2023 15:28:46 GMT
The colors are fabulous and the photo is pure art!
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 24, 2023 18:01:54 GMT
I love my vegetable garden! The chayotes/mirliton are daunting, though. I've given away more than I've used, even though I've used a lot. Yesterday I filled (shrimp stuffing) and froze 13 mirliton halves. I'd steamed them first in the Instant Pot, which is a million times better than the old way of boiling them first.
The okra is is also rather daunting, although I'm staying on top of it due to my amazed joy that I finally have okra after all these years. Yesterday for lunch I had a piggishly large amount of hyper fresh okra cooked with lots and lots of shrimp. Earlier in the week I had gumbo. There is a monster bag in the freezer full of sandwich bags of frozen okra.
The bush beans have been over for a while, but I have new bushes coming on and a few bags of frozen from the last bunch.
And I'm getting black eyed peas -- joy of joys! I've already had one mega feast of freshly shelled peas and shelled just under 8 ounces this morning, which will be lunch.
And finally, there is at least one eggplant developing out there.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 24, 2023 18:16:30 GMT
I have bought some colourful carrots from time to time to time, but I confess that I never really understood the point, except for decoration.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 24, 2023 18:30:27 GMT
That’s exactly the point!
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Post by mich64 on Sept 24, 2023 19:13:24 GMT
Agree Bixa! I would print and frame that photo Mick posted and put it up somewhere in my kitchen. Also, your garden sounds fabulous.
Yummy looking carrots Mick!
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 14, 2023 12:07:47 GMT
Lost all my leek crop to leek moth.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 14, 2023 12:14:52 GMT
Picked the last of the green beans, cut the last green tomatoes to ripen indoors and pulled the last of the carrots. Just spring onions and beetroot left.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 14, 2023 14:14:34 GMT
Is that standard procedure for this time of year, Mick? That's a shame about the leeks.
It is autumn here also, although a less distinguishable change in this climate. I think the chayotes are finally ending their rampant bearing, ditto the okra. I'm harvesting eggplant, which would have done better if it had had more sun all along. It got shaded out by the okra plants. My second planting of green beans is not really developing due to being eaten down to nubs by bugs. The black eyed pea have both new pods and maturing pods.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 14, 2023 15:23:45 GMT
Yes, that’s it bixa I’m afraid. The light and warmth are going now. Forgot to say I have a good crop of chard which will be fine through winter.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 16, 2023 4:59:52 GMT
I'm trying to remember what stayed in my grandparents' garden in Lorraine through the winter. Not much in any case. I think there was some Belgian endive and maybe a few cabbages hibernating. There was a semi sunken hot box with a glass frame over it where the parsley was able to survive, even under the snow. My grandmother used lots of parsley.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 16, 2023 6:33:35 GMT
Freshly cut parsley from ones own garden is absolutely sublime. No store-bought parsley can compare.
Kerouac, is there anything in Paris or around it similar to the allotments in other countries?
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 16, 2023 8:05:29 GMT
There are plenty in the suburbs and even a few in Paris. Of course in Paris itself, I'm sure they don't even cover 1% of what people would like, especially since most allotment spaces are given to schools for their educational use.
There are actually two gardens just off my street, about 3 minutes from where I live -- Bois Dormoy and Ecobox. If you google either of them, you'll get lots of chaotic photos;
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Post by tod2 on Oct 16, 2023 10:31:33 GMT
I went onto Google and did a walk to both gardens. The Ecobox looks the more efficient and cared for but that may not be the case as of todays date.....those Google surveys of the streets can be months old.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 16, 2023 16:38:12 GMT
Tod, I think you'd be better served by Google Images &/or All than by Street View, as street view images can indeed be years old. The one peek I took that way was from March of 2020. Any garden can change fairly radically in a couple of months, depending on the season photos are taken. Obviously you need to put those two public gardens on your list of places to visit on your next trip to Paris. ECObox has some great pictures in the photo section of its facebook page. It appears that the most consolidated photos of Bois Dormoy are also on a facebook page.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 18, 2023 17:01:04 GMT
Next year’s tomato seed sorted:- Li Ren (Chinese) Red Zebra Long Tom (cooking) Ananas Noire Black Cherry Costoluto Genovese (cooking) Egg Yolk Eight Ball Garden Peach St Pierre Tumbling Tom red and yellow
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 6, 2024 9:55:51 GMT
Just planted 150 onion sets. Knackered.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 6, 2024 16:21:46 GMT
Wow, that seems like a lot. Admittedly, I have no idea what the yield will be since I've never planted onions.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 6, 2024 18:22:12 GMT
It is a lot. I grew 100 last year and they seemed to last about 5 minutes. This year I’m concentrating on what we eat a lot of so, onions, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet corn, courgettes, chard and French beans.
Carrots, beetroot and spring onions in pots.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 6, 2024 18:24:49 GMT
Wow -- you all will eat like kings.
Since my favorite salad is tomato and onion, I greatly approve your choices. (but no green beans?))
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 7, 2024 21:29:48 GMT
Same here Mick...I'm only growing what we will eat altho everything will be in big pots and tubs. On Wednesday I have a shedload of multi purpose compost being delivered. I think that I'll have 8 or 9 very large pots for potatoes, another for sugarsnap peas, another for dwarf beans (Hestia, looking forward to those). I've got 3 old council recycling boxes...one for carrots, another will be up on the GH staging for lettuces and pak choi...another for onions... Only one variety of tomato in the GH (Shirley)..but I may be given another variety. Pointless trying to grow bell peppers here but might grow some chillis..then I've got mini cucumbers (Diva) and Cape Gooseberries. I have to find room for radishes, beetroot....the list goes on...I love the optimism of spring
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