How are the veggies coming along?

[sime42]

Damson wine? I was tempted to with some of ours, only decided against it as I've 101 other things I need to do at the moment. I've a friend who makes it, it's very good. 

[PeteB]

Tried growing tomatoes in hanging baskets.  In essence,  it worked but the brand is one with a right tough skin which I don't like! Such a shame!

[daveatdave]

31 minutes ago, sime42 said:

 

Picked the majority of our one small tree this evening. Best year it's had in a long time. It was laden. 

 

 

 

Plus a couple more small bowls that we've already eaten. That lot is destined to be stewed and bottled tomorrow. I thought about jam but there's still too many jars in the cupboard from previous years. 

 

The strange thing is that here was not one single worm in all that lot. Very surprising as there's normally a good few. Something to do with the extremely dry summer I wonder?

 

 

my next-door neighbour gave me some half of them had worms in the end i chucked the lot in the bin 

[AHPP]

36 minutes ago, daveatdave said:

my next-door neighbour gave me some half of them had worms in the end i chucked the lot in the bin 

Scared of a worm. Poof. Aim for it. Show it who’s boss. 

I picked an apple up from a mate’s garden the other day. Had an obvious wormhole. No hesitation. No surrender. Straight into the arsehole end of it and ate everything bar the stalk. I like to think I made some sort of point there. 

[5thelement]

Some of todays pick, peaches, tomatoes, red and white grapes and Padrons.

The Padron peppers are my particular favourite, splashed with a little oil then blistered directly on the BBQ grill, a little sprinkle of course sea salt and viola. 
I have a glut of apples/pears this year. 
I have been making fresh juice with the apple press, but the heat is causing large amounts of fruit to fall, too much to deal with all at once. 
I was thinking of putting them through the gravity fed chipper, straight into a vat for making Cider, anyone else used a CS100 or similar to macerate apple’s successfully?

[AHPP]

It’s surely going to stick to the inside of the chute. Delighted to be wrong. Looks like you’re the tester. 

[5thelement]

2 hours ago, AHPP said:

It’s surely going to stick to the inside of the chute. Delighted to be wrong. Looks like you’re the tester. 

If I had a big enough freezer I would freeze them first, I reckon that would sort out any chute issues. 

[Mick Dempsey]

I have put apples through a chipper, admittedly à hydraulic feed one, it never blocked up.

[AHPP]

24 minutes ago, 5thelement said:

If I had a big enough freezer I would freeze them first, I reckon that would sort out any chute issues. 

The Fargo solution. 

[AHPP]

17 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I have put apples through a chipper, admittedly à hydraulic feed one, it never blocked up.

Same but with normal brash and wood which would push pulp though.