Gardening

[Bluechip]

Thought I'd have an experimental poke at me 'taters ...

Still some way to go to harvest but better than I thought considering the dry season.

One plant sacrificed ....  1.1 kg ...

Dave

[steam guy willy]

Saskatoons - had to Google what those are,  been looking for some fruit trees to plant in the front garden and they sound just the ticket so thanks Willy!

Simon.

Hi Simon , The saskatoons are more of a bushy shrub than a tree but mine are now 6 feet tall after 5 years from 1 year cuttings. See you in October ..........

[Steamer5]

Hi Willy,
Had my first task of the Saskatoon berries yesterday, all be it as a juice, its good! We are on hoilday in Alberta & they told me the arent fresh until late August. But the jam is real good! Ill have to have a hunt at home to see if i can find any

Cheers Kerrin

[Jo]

  The onion crop was not good this year. It must be half what it normally is due to that nasty infection they got earlier in the year.

Decisions time: What do I want to go with my courgettes for dinner 

Jo

[Doc]

They look pretty nice to me!   

[Flyboy Jim]

The onion crop was not good this year. It must be half what it normally is due to that nasty infection they got earlier in the year.

Decisions time: What do I want to go with my courgettes for dinner 

Jo

You got the idea................a nice red wine! 

Jim

[Bluechip]

The onion crop was not good this year. It must be half what it normally is due to that nasty infection they got earlier in the year.



Jo

They don't look all that grim, seen a lot worse. Reds look really nice ... 

Mine doing  better after the recent rain ... 

Biggest is just shy of 130mm dia. , still growing ....    , tops not falling over yet.

Red Barons not too chipper though, they never really got over the dry spell .... 

Dave

[Tennessee Whiskey]

So does anyone cultivate horseradish?

Cletus

[Vixen]

Yes, I have some that make your nose burn and  eyes water. Great with roast beef

Mike

[Bluechip]

Don't grow it, bit too damned invasive if you're not careful.

As I don't eat chunks of dead cows, ( though I do occasionally scoff minced beef ), I like  mashed potato with horseradish and soft cheese.

I used to go to a pub that did rabbit pie and they gave the option of it with the pie.

Alas, boozer extinct ....      now a private house.

Those happy days, now long gone, pottering around the Peak District on my Honda 400/4 or it's successor the 550/4 dropping into any pub that took my fancy.   

Very few Rozzers and NO      speed cameras ....

Dave

[Dave Otto]

Yes, I have some that make your nose burn and  eyes water. Great with roast beef

Mike

As it should 

Dave

[Bluechip]

Hi Jo

Yours, will lay reds out properly tomorrow to finish drying off, though some have thick necks so I don't hold out much hope for those you'll need to use them first ...  happy peeling         

Last Pic. Sorry, don't have any semi-obligatory US coins for comparison, had to use a 500ml Becky can ..

Dave

( Biggest I ever grew was 3 lb 11 oz,  1670g, in 1992-ish, a  long way short of the UK record )
 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2203295/Worlds-largest-onion-weighing-18lb-smashes-records-Now-thats-eye-watering.html   

[steam guy willy]

Here in Norridge horseradish is pretty prolific in the wild and on some allotment sites. It is also growing in abundance along railway lines as the cheffs used to chuck all their kitchen waste out the windows of the kitchens in the C19  !!

[Jo]

   What do you do to get them that big. Mine are somewhat smaller than that.

Jo

[Bluechip]

I would like to claim it is genius on my part    but it's just the variety:

http://www.mammothonion.co.uk/cgi-bin/trolleyed_public.cgi?action=showprod_ONP1

Those were planted out about 2 weeks before the reds and they got some rain and established reasonably well. The reds were not not so lucky, dry for 2-3 weeks and they never got going.        ( Even though I watered them ).

On that same site are Rijnsburger (?) onions. Grew some of those once and they are pretty damned hot ... didn't grow them again.

http://www.mammothonion.co.uk/cgi-bin/trolleyed_public.cgi?action=showprod_ONH3


Dave