Green Bean chutney is lovely alongside a good curry with a few poppadoms and a cold pint. Add a few chilles to the recipie if you like it spicy.
Runner bean chutney recipie
Runner bean chutney recipie
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I'm still drowning in cucumbers...about 10 every 2 days. Giving most of them away now.
I was checking my tomato blight web site...seems the blight might be on its way. This year I have a cunning plan!
I was checking my tomato blight web site...seems the blight might be on its way. This year I have a cunning plan!
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Hmmmm, good spot. No idea what I was doing there, and I hadn't even been drinking.I think that might be the wrong link, unless the chutney also has roadkill in it.
Try this one instead.
Runner bean chutney
Preserve allotment staple runner beans to enjoy later in the year in this zingy chutney. It will keep sealed in a cool, dry place for up to three months
www.bbcgoodfood.com
Apart from the obvious answer. Does anyone know what to do with these.
Or more specifically, has anyone got any recipies for them, or know how to cook them?
It's a summer Squash, (White Scallop) and for context it's about the size of a dinner plate.
I thought I'd plant a couple in my compost bin as a bit of an experiment, along with a normal Pumpkin, but they appear to be taking over the world, and having grown them, I've no got idea what to do with them.
If anyone's got a recipie or idea on how to cook them, I'm all ears.
Or more specifically, has anyone got any recipies for them, or know how to cook them?
It's a summer Squash, (White Scallop) and for context it's about the size of a dinner plate.
I thought I'd plant a couple in my compost bin as a bit of an experiment, along with a normal Pumpkin, but they appear to be taking over the world, and having grown them, I've no got idea what to do with them.
If anyone's got a recipie or idea on how to cook them, I'm all ears.
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I've found now that I've been able to harvest leaves from some lettuce plants, in fact this week is the first for a while that I haven't bought any, and I've just been out and got a few more, enough for a couple of days. That's a mixture of a few out in the garden under wire hanging baskets, and three in a small tray in the lean-to greenhouse. The seeds I planted to replace the other ravaged plants haven't done anything yet.
I have plenty of flowers on the various tomato plants, but so far only one actual tomato. Similarly the chilli plants have some flowers, but nothing else.
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Sell them to a vegetarian, go to butchers and buy steak!
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I'm on blight watch at the moment...I think it's hopefully just missed us fingers crossed!
Each day around the warmest time gently tap the branches with open flowers on them starting at the top .. what you'll be doing is putting a heck of a lot of tomato plant pollen in the air . Toms tend to be able to self fertilize by this method.
Or you could buy a big expensive squirrel hair artist paint brush or get hold of some rabbit tails and cable tie then on a short thin stick ( Kebab skewers are good ) and hand pollenate every flower .
Are you practicing pruning your vines so you only get say five clusters on the vines height then pinch out the growing tip .
You also need to pinch out new growth between the main stem and a branch where a new shoot appear to stick up like a chickens middle toe . If you don't know what I'm saying see if you can find a couple or trio of YouTubes on it , compare them to what I've said and use what you think is best practice.
Leaving excessive greenery & not pinching out the middle claw robs the plant of energy to produce them which should be better used to produce fruits
If they are in the glasshouse , put a fan near them to provide air movement .. blight in toms loves still high humidity .
Outside only put/grow one plant every 3 foot & stake it up right unless it is a bush tomato type to allow air movement
IIRC You used to be able to give them a spray with a very weak solution of copper sulphate . as well as doing the same with potatoes
You can use them to thicken up stews & soups , add them to salsa and ratatouille .? Check BBC Good Food recipes they tend to have been tried by qualified cooks and use British standard measure & weights . of ounces or grams
Some Chinese recipes use grams through out ie 43 gram of tepid water , 1/6 gram white pepper . I like this style of recipe as it is very easy to calculate exact quantities and get good repeat meals as a consequence .
In fact we have converted many of our favourite recipes to this style by writing down on the printed recipe sheet how much / how many etc. then heat sealed a good tested recipe in a plastic envelope for future days .
We have had digital scales for around 40 years and druggies tyep scales for fractional weight for 30 years .
We got hold of an American recipe that was copied over & over again on other American sites.. " You need two tablespoons of salt " the recipe demanded .. T'was obvious none of them had every tried the recipe . Two British 5 ml / tea spoons of salt made it very salty but two table spoons made it inedible
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It usually starts at one end of the allotment...couple of weeks and all tomatoes are gone. I think I've been trying for about 5 years ...ends badly every time
That's a massive problem in allotments , as people continually grow spuds & toms on the same ground year after year , both suffer blight .
It can takes three or four years of quality manuring & not growing spuds or Toms to condition the ground enough so it takes in water quickly & hold it below the ground .
This website has some very good pictures & info that you may find useful.
www.homesandgardens.com
It can takes three or four years of quality manuring & not growing spuds or Toms to condition the ground enough so it takes in water quickly & hold it below the ground .
This website has some very good pictures & info that you may find useful.
Tomato blight – treatments the gardening experts swear by
Did yours suffer this year? These tomato blight treatments will help you avoid or deal with this dreaded disease that can wipe out your tomato crop
www.homesandgardens.com
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I don't think any of them have multiple clusters of flowers, some of them don't have multiple flowers. In previous years the plants have gone very tall and narrow, needing to be tied up to stop them tipping over, and I've read about pinching out the centre, but it always talks about doing it after several bunches of flowers have arrived (I think I read 3 in one article) and mine don't get to that point. They haven't grown tall this year, so far, but then neither have my sunflowers, which is a bit more disappointing. I'll have a look around for the other new growth. They're in pots, in new compost, even the three plants I've put outside are in pots.
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I've never had much luck growing food plants in pots...they never seem to take off in the same way as putting them in the ground. Could be that I don't know what I'm doing of course!
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I've always done tomatoes in pots, my Mum used to do it that way and get loads of fruit on them, so I don't know why mine are so poor. Probably because she looked after them better than I do. I've just realised that I haven't given them any tomato food for a few weeks, so that might make a difference. Reading above, though, my vegetable patch has a lot of random potatoes growing in it, so perhaps that isn't the best place for me to try a couple, and it's the only place I could. I've got some lettuce in there that's doing reasonably well, but similarly to the ones I have in pots. Lots of potato plants, but when I dug a couple up the other day, not many actual potatoes. Most of them are growing from where I haven't properly cleared the patch before.
This is the plant that has one tomato on it, and maybe five or six other flowers. Obviously I've managed to get a photo from an angle that completely hides the fruit.
