How are the veggies coming along?

[sime42]

Leeks. They're nice just fried up with some cabbage, like onions but sweeter. Even nicer with some lardons or pancetta added as well. 

[rapalaman]

The annual damson jam making has started for me this evening - reckon I’ll have four or five batches this year, perhaps 60-70 jars. Many years ago I’d have been down the pub/club on a Friday night - now look at me - making jam 🤣

[david lawrence]

Gifts swaps ? Or do you eat a lot of jam?

[rapalaman]

A bit of both - always have toast and marmalade/jam for breakfast but give lots away to neighbours, friends and some of my favourite customers. Seems to be well received and get swaps with some veg, fruit etc

Fig chutney goes down well at my local pub on cheese night. The Bramley apples are numerous this year if not as big as usual due to the lack of rain. Apple pies and crumble will be going in the freezer soon as well.

[sime42]

11 hours ago, rapalaman said:

The annual damson jam making has started for me this evening - reckon I’ll have four or five batches this year, perhaps 60-70 jars. Many years ago I’d have been down the pub/club on a Friday night - now look at me - making jam 🤣

 

Nice. Our tree is laden now, first decent crop on it for years. I was thinking to start picking this weekend. 

[rapalaman]

I’ve got two Damson trees, different varieties as one is always about two weeks later so I can spread out the picking.

[5thelement]

I generally grow the things that I cant buy readily here in the shops, very hot chillis, Padron peppers, and oddly, mange tout.

This year I’m growing Okra for the first time, so far dead easy, lush plants just starting to produce an abundant crop, pretty flowers also. 

 

[5thelement]

Todays pick.

 

[Ty Korrigan]

I've not devoted much time this year to the veg plot.

Potatoes have done well enough but could have done with a little watering.

Last night, the first sweetcorn, raised at home in fibre pots and planted in full sun with a few squash in between.

The taste was...sweet ! Very sweet indeed.

The pumpkins, about 40 fruits, are for Halloween, my kids and the local after school club.

Onions suffered a lack of water and Red Lily Beetle.

Leeks suffered from inattention during my month in Morocco, drowned by woody nightshade which is the most problematic weed I have.

I'm on a fertile sandy soil that could always do with more humus.

[sime42]

21 hours ago, rapalaman said:

The annual damson jam making has started for me this evening - reckon I’ll have four or five batches this year, perhaps 60-70 jars. Many years ago I’d have been down the pub/club on a Friday night - now look at me - making jam 🤣

 

That's industrial jam making. How do you go about taking all the thousands of stones out? It must take forever with that amount. (I've a vague memory of asking you this same question in a previous year, but I forget the answer! Apologies if so).