How are the veggies coming along?

[eggsarascal]

Is it Kale?

[Rough Hewn]

Dunno but do you feel good when ya smoke it:lol:

Yes!
It’s golden Virginia tobacco,
Entirely legal, no taxes.
£1.99 for a thousand seeds off eBay.
grown outdoors in Yorkshire.
Reckon I’ll have 3-4 kilos of dried leaf.
And at £400 a kilo from the shop...
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[Guest Gimlet]

My favourite job is underway: lifting the spuds. It's like digging up buried treasure.

[Peasgood]

9 hours ago, Gimlet said:

My favourite job is underway: lifting the spuds. It's like digging up buried treasure.

How do you store them? Paper sacks?

[Guest Gimlet]

Hessian sacks usually. I haven't grown very many this year so at the moment I'm leaving them in the ground and lifting them as I needed.

 

I planted them in a hurry during lockdown and didn't really leave enough space so they weren't earthed up as high as they might have been and I could have produced a lot more. Each plant is still giving a big shovelful of spuds though and some of them are massive. 

Don't know what variety they are. My mother gave me a small bagful of seed potatoes and I just stuck them in. They look like King Edwards but they are more floury. Make great roasties.

[Stere]

Lifted  my  spuds  2 month ago. They will of  rotted by now if left in ground  and being eaten by keel slugs as its being a very wet late summer/autumn. Soil here is heavy clay and is often very water logged at this time of yr...

 

Often they get blighted fairly early in season - dependent on Hutton Criteria.

 

What are Hutton Criteria - Blightwatch

BLIGHTWATCH.CO.UK

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A Hutton Criteria occurs when two consecutive days with a minimum temperature of 10°C, and at least six hours of...

 

So tend too end up cutting the haulms off then lift 2 weeks after when soil is dry.

 

I use the paper  sacks that hen corn comes in to store them. Good too sort through the bags now and then as rotten ones can spoil a whole bag.

Low temp is important for storage  also cold dark and humid but  with ventilation and rat proof.

Store them in  a shed with apples.

 

 

 

 

Sqaushes have done well this yrs still got them to harvest. 

Found the  jap Uchiki kuri type  has really good flavour. Got the seeds from ebay.

 

SQUASH UCHIKI KURI 40 FINEST SEEDS

WWW.EBAY.CO.UK

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VEGETABLE SQUASH UCHIKI KURI 40 FINEST SEEDS. Many winter Squash / Pumpkins like to sprawl out and need plenty...

 

 

[Peasgood]

4 hours ago, Stere said:

Store them in  a shed with apples.

My shed has got 15 tons of apples in it so should be good to go.

[Stere]

Must of take awhile  to pick.

 

What do you do with them all?

 

 

 

any Peasgood's Nonsuch?

[Peasgood]

I make apple juice. I lost most of my crop to frost in late May so these are bought in for the first time ever.

I don't have any Peasgood.

[Guest Gimlet]

11 hours ago, Stere said:

Lifted  my  spuds  2 month ago. They will of  rotted by now if left in ground  and being eaten by keel slugs as its being a very wet late summer/autumn. Soil here is heavy clay and is often very water logged at this time of yr...

 

Often they get blighted fairly early in season - dependent on Hutton Criteria.

 

What are Hutton Criteria - Blightwatch

BLIGHTWATCH.CO.UK

---

A Hutton Criteria occurs when two consecutive days with a minimum temperature of 10°C, and at least six hours of...

 

So tend too end up cutting the haulms off then lift 2 weeks after when soil is dry.

 

I use the paper  sacks that hen corn comes in to store them. Good too sort through the bags now and then as rotten ones can spoil a whole bag.

Low temp is important for storage  also cold dark and humid but  with ventilation and rat proof.

Store them in  a shed with apples.

 

 

 

 

Sqaushes have done well this yrs still got them to harvest. 

Found the  jap Uchiki kuri type  has really good flavour. Got the seeds from ebay.

 

SQUASH UCHIKI KURI 40 FINEST SEEDS

WWW.EBAY.CO.UK

---

VEGETABLE SQUASH UCHIKI KURI 40 FINEST SEEDS. Many winter Squash / Pumpkins like to sprawl out and need plenty...

 

 

Had some nice Crown Prince pumpkins this year. Really nice roasted like spuds.

Quite a few marrows too but the skins are a bit hard as I didn't get enough water into them. Taste alright though.