How are the veggies coming along?

[AHPP]

Lovely job!

[scbk]

Well the cherry tomato harvest has begun this week, and I gotta say Sungold are absolutely delicious 

[spudulike]

2 hours ago, scbk said:

Well the cherry tomato harvest has begun this week, and I gotta say Sungold are absolutely delicious 

Yup, one of our favourites. 

[rapalaman]

Just got three pans, 4.5kg of damsons on the stove this evening to make jam - one of my favourites 👍

the usually productive tree only had a dozen or so on it, and the later one had a reasonable amount. Should have done it last weekend as lost a few to being over ripe but we had a bbq here last weekend for 53 people so I was otherwise engaged (read that as f….ing rushed off my feet) 😂

[sime42]

Nice. I was doing the same last night for a load of plums that we picked at the weekend.

 

When did you stone them, out of interest? Stoning damsons is a right ball ache. I gave up trying to do it pre-cooking and just picked out as many as I could until bored once they were stewed down.

 

[rapalaman]

22 minutes ago, sime42 said:

Nice. I was doing the same last night for a load of plums that we picked at the weekend.

 

When did you stone them, out of interest? Stoning damsons is a right ball ache. I gave up trying to do it pre-cooking and just picked out as many as I could until bored once they were stewed down.

 

Same - just let them float to the surface and fish them out at the end. Was going to try stoning them next year.

end result - 19 jars of lovely sweet toast topping for breakfast 👍

[Squaredy]

Is it normal to get lots of different colour pumpkins from one batch of seeds?  The seeds are Crown Prince, but I didn’t expect such a variety of colours!  I haven’t cooked any yet, so maybe they are all the same inside.

[Stere]

Normally thay are all green probably they  got cross pollinated @ the seed company with another type of sqaush by accident unless it was you who saved the seeds?

 

Only will come true from seed if you grow one type isolated.

 

 

 

 

[Squaredy]

2 hours ago, Stere said:

Normally thay are all green probably they  got cross pollinated @ the seed company with another type of sqaush by accident unless it was you who saved the seeds?

 

Only will come true from seed if you grow one type isolated.

 

 

 

 

Yes I saved the seeds myself from just a single pumpkin.

[farmer rod]

There has been a slight to-do in our pub, as the rules of the pumpkin comp were that entrants had to purchase the seedling, however, things went wrong when the first load of seedlings snuffed it, and the second lot purchased from a garden centre as "Atlantic Giant" threw a crop of "various".  Much more exciting than other years.