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Post by whatagain on Jun 20, 2024 10:43:51 GMT
Our old friend is planted. Pote âge - potager - vegetables garden. ![](https://i.ibb.co/ZmynbY6/IMG-0885.jpg) ![](https://i.ibb.co/5TQbVh8/IMG-0886.jpg) My wife wanted to extend to plant even more but wanted a path to access that new part. and we discovered that somebody had had the same idea. ![](https://i.ibb.co/NtL9F24/IMG-0883.jpg) After some sweating the path is cleared. ![](https://i.ibb.co/pKY8TFQ/IMG-0887.jpg)
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Post by tod2 on Jun 21, 2024 16:14:01 GMT
Very interesting Whatagain! Please keep us posted.
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Post by lugg on Jun 21, 2024 20:03:14 GMT
The strawberries look so good Mick
Intriued Whatagain by what comes next
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 22, 2024 9:20:08 GMT
As usual Jeffers has been nagging me to harvest some of the potatoes (I have 8 large tubs of first and second earlies). I let him empty two yesterday and we were quite surprised at the haul. Mostly golf ball sized (the variety is Acoustic a first early) and a bit smaller. 5lbs of new salad potatoes from 2x3 seed potatoes.not bad really.
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Post by whatagain on Jun 22, 2024 10:23:55 GMT
Enjoy !
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 22, 2024 21:57:41 GMT
Discovering the buried path should help you a lot, whatagain. But there's still a lot of work to do.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 22, 2024 22:00:20 GMT
But they will have all those potatoes to give them strength.
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Post by whatagain on Jun 23, 2024 6:35:42 GMT
Kerouac, that is my wife's kingdom. She does 90% of the job, I work 8% Marie does the rest. The dog watches most of it.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 6, 2024 16:05:31 GMT
I don’t know how Cheery is doing but this rotten sunless summer means things are well behind, the only exception being onions.
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Post by whatagain on Jul 6, 2024 21:23:40 GMT
My wife managed at least this. ![](https://i.ibb.co/hVhzG09/IMG-1238.jpg) these grow under the glasshouse. ![](https://i.ibb.co/NrPDtWz/IMG-1235.jpg)
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 17, 2024 19:58:42 GMT
Same here Mick, I've only had two baby cucumbers....the tomatoes are forming but really slowly. The cape gooseberry plants are small...in fact ALL the salad crops are undersized. Even the courgette...usually prolific...is really pathetic. Today has been the first sunny day for weeks.
Looks like Mrs Whatagain has had some success!
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 21, 2024 11:29:19 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Jul 23, 2024 12:21:49 GMT
Nice haul Mick! I love courgettes lightly steamed or grilled in a ton of garlic butter..... ![](https://s20.postimg.cc/k2o9hao31/liplicking.gif)
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Post by tod2 on Jul 23, 2024 12:31:38 GMT
![](https://i.ibb.co/1JP7zrx/5ca459c8-0a38-421d-b24b-8283be063dab.jpg) The cauliflowers have been the best we have ever had. Pure white as the sun is weak and the cool air is what they love. I see on You Tube that they are among the best WHITE garden vegetables for gut health.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 23, 2024 12:33:14 GMT
That looks wonderful tod, I've never grown such a beautiful cauliflower!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 25, 2024 15:23:55 GMT
I love cauliflower.
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Post by lugg on Jul 25, 2024 19:02:50 GMT
Great cauli Tod, and Mick your haul of courgettes and potatoes looks mouth watering. Congrats to Mrs Whatagain on her harvest.
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Post by bjd on Jul 25, 2024 19:26:12 GMT
Ironic that tomatoes are growing better in Belgium than here. I planted two tomato plants with large tomatoes -- as one ripened, the blackbirds ate most of it. Lots of cherry tomatoes in various parts of the garden but they are just not ripening. I'm glad I'm not a market gardener.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 26, 2024 13:56:12 GMT
Since learning cauliflower is top of the list when it comes to colon cancer fighting vegetables because Cruciferous vegetables also contain sulforaphane, a plant compound with potential anticancer properties. One study shows that sulforaphane significantly inhibits cancer cell growth and stimulates cell death in colon cancer cells.
Cauliflower originally came from Cyprus, and was introduced to France in the sixteenth century. Cauliflower is a flower that has not fully developed yet and it comes in four colors: white, yellow, green and purple.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 26, 2024 15:07:48 GMT
Interesting information, Tod. It makes me glad I've eaten so much broccoli in my life. I used to always prefer broccoli over cauliflower, thinking that green automatically meant more nutritious. Only recently did I learn that is not necessarily true. I do like cauliflower, but the ones sold here are always huge. The vendors will cut them in halves or quarters for you, but there is something about a small, perfect whole one that is very appealing.
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Post by patricklondon on Jul 26, 2024 17:19:54 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 26, 2024 18:05:22 GMT
I bet Commentencore can sing it!
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 6, 2024 21:03:29 GMT
Old proverb:- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. Mick posted that in Petty Personal Traumas & it reminded me that I have something to share here in the growing-comestibles thread. Last year I posted that I had planted a dwarf banana tree. Its leaves now wave proudly above the level of my 9' wall. I'm still pretty sure that it's a dwarf because there are so many banana trees around here and they dwarf my "little" guy. Anyway ~ this picture was take on July 15, so three weeks ago: ![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53907123690_52624b6a27_o.jpg) These pictures were taken about a half hour ago: ![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53905762492_fa5ca4b041_o.jpg) The flower, which I guess will make even more bananas --? ![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53906906373_76364b0915_o.jpg) Even though the weight of the laden banana stalk is pulling the trunk of the tree over, I can't reach the top of the stalk. I'm 5'7, have fairly long arms, & was standing on tiptoes. ![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53906659281_50cdb9bf4c_o.jpg) Top of the stalk taken from the other side. You can see how much the trunk has been pulled over to one side. ![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53907101560_4d3f460c84_b.jpg)
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Post by htmb on Aug 6, 2024 21:18:19 GMT
Fantastic, Bixa! What was the size when you planted it in the ground? That’s a giant crop of bananas! You’ll soon be abandoning this gem, I suppose.
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Post by mich64 on Aug 6, 2024 21:50:01 GMT
Wow! Will you be able to take that flower, which is hopefully a seed pod for a new tree to produce again next year to your new home?
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 6, 2024 23:38:02 GMT
Htmb, it was around 5 feet high. I just checked & it was planted on June 28 last year. And yes, it will be bye-bye bananas when I move.
Mich, I won't be taking any of it with me. I'll have to make a new thread about the new place, which is about the opposite of what I have now. Eek!
As far as the bananas -- a friend & I were standing in the yard marveling at the monster bunch & talking about whether or not I'd be able to enjoy any before I moved. Then we both started laughing because, ha ha ha -- as if there aren't enough bananas around here! I swear, they are everywhere. Even walking around downtown you'll pass a place like a hardware store (not exaggerating!) and there will be a table out front with bananas for sale. Cars & trucks go through the neighborhood with a loudspeaker, selling bananas for almost nothing.
Still, I would like to get to eat some, just because I grew them myself. Okay, in a very passive way.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 7, 2024 2:33:45 GMT
When I was little, we usually had one of those bunches ripening in the garage. My biological father was a locomotive engineer and had the cushy job of pushing boxcars around at the banana terminal of the port of Gulfport (I say 'cushy' because railway employees dream of being able to go home every night, and my father was one of the rare ones who got to do that.). I am still amazed that I can eat bananas because you cannot imagine how much banana bread and banana pudding I was obliged to consume as a child, not mention slicing bananas in my breakfast cereal. Luckily, our weekly maid had a big enough family to take quite a few of them off our hands.
Your bananas are ready to be cut loose, Bixa, since they were always green like that when taking the ship from Costa Rica or Honduras to the United States and then they still had to travel across the country. I still remember that to get them to ripen, you cut off a small bunch and keep it in the company of a ripe banana which gives off the necessary "ripening gas."
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 7, 2024 4:53:57 GMT
Gosh -- banana pudding! Visions of vanilla wafers dance in my head. I love your banana reminiscences & am even kind of envious, despite being somewhat sick of bananas now.
Did your folks ripen the banana stalk in the garage because it was dark in there, or simply because it was the most convenient space?
My grandfather (b. Nov. 1892) used to tell a story about when he was a little boy & accompanied his father to the docks in New Orleans. He was walking around clutching the dime he'd been given when he saw a man carrying a whole stalk of bananas on his back. He asked the man could he have some bananas & held out his dime. The man gave him the entire stalk, which was bigger than my little boy grandfather.
This afternoon I passed one of the misceláneas in my neighborhood. It was displaying bunches and bunches of green bananas for sale, something it offers quite often. I went in and asked how to tell when to harvest bananas. Even though the store's bananas were green, they were still plumply banana shaped. Mine still have sharp ribs and look very unripe. The girl said I could go ahead & harvest them, but I pointed out that the stalk still has a flower on it. Then she said, "Oh no -- you have to wait for that to fall off."
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 7, 2024 16:14:32 GMT
By and large it’s been a poor season thanks to the cold dull spring and early summer. Tomatoes are trying but unless we have a wonderful September and October the crop will be about half normal. Picked first cucumber today. But the odd thing is that the onion crop is the best I’ve ever had. They are actually bigger than they look in the picture. Start lifting them tomorrow. ![](https://i.ibb.co/vdLSpJZ/0-F6-E1554-F034-4637-AB87-04980332-B081.jpg)
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 7, 2024 16:59:16 GMT
Clearly different crops like different conditions. Due to climate change, there are in incredible number of vineyards being planted in northern France as the south becomes too hot and dry. Also in England, if I am not mistaken.
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