EJ
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:29 pm Post subject: My allotment harvest in June |
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Things are slow on the old allotment over here in the UK and I do believe it is the funny weather we have had. Very very hot, then so cold and wet. Very little sunshine and the ground has been so cold. However, at last I am starting to bring home the bacon....well, the veggies.
International Kidney new potatoes and broad beans 'Express'
My favourite berry of all, the raspberry. This one is a variety called Glen Moy.
My first courgette, a small on yes, called 'De nice a rond fruit', but it was delicious! Plenty forming behind it so the glut is coming.
Look at this big strawb, which didn't make it home. Alas, it ended it's life in my tummy. 
Lettuce seedlings, lollo bionde and little gem.
Parsnip seedlings. Such a slow one to germinate, but well worth the trouble. A Christmas dinner staple in our family.
And finally, curly parsley. The sages say that if you can grow parsley well, then you wear the trousers in your house. Well, there you have it, enough said!
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Woohoo, everyone to EJ's for supper. Everything looks so good.
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Wow, that is one impressive strawberry!
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Sjoerd
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No thanks to the weather, you have alot going on there.
The International Kidney spuds are a type that my partner and I were looking at this very evening (for next year, of course). They get good press.
I swear that I could almost taste those raspberries. They looked delicious.
Nice to see your seedlings doing so well. Your 'snips are at about the same stage as ours.--You be careful handling those, won't you!
Everything is going so weird over here too--veg AND flowers. I am not very happy abpout it, but things are at least happening. My Sunsets are in full bloom from ground level, and I AM happy about that.
Well EJ, Bon Apitite...and I look foreward to your next showing.
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EJ
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Sunsets....I assume you mean beans. Mine only have small buds on at the moment, and my french beans are a little behind that.
I will be careful with the snips foliage, it isn't now, it is in a month or 2's time when it is larger and I brush past it. Must remember long sleeves!!
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:42 am Post subject: |
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Looking good EJ. Those berries are making my mouth water!
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:04 am Post subject: |
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Well cone so far EJ. When's the supper that toni mentioned? I'd love to sink my teeth into your berries, they look sooo tasty. 
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Dinner? Were invited for dinner! As long as more of the strawberries and raspberries are for dessert, I'm there!
Well done! it all looks so good so far.
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Come on ladies and gents keep up!! We're on our way EJ so you'd better watch out 'cause we're worse than a swarm of locusts when it comes to eating fruit!!! 
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EJ, that 'bacon' is looking pretty darn good! 
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Mmmm! Everything looks so tasty! It makes me want to start a vegetable garden. I've never heard of a courgette. I would love to know more about it.
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EJ
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Bluebirdie, I think you guys on the other side of the pond call them zucchini. They are a soft skinned summer squash which we eat when quite small and immature. I griddled mine and it was so tasty. They are incredibly prolific over here, loving plenty of warm sun and water and you can get quite a glut and I have been known to pick 20+ in one day. I give them to the neighbours, but even they get sick of them. This year I staggered the sowing so some plants are still very immature and they should fruit later in the season when the older plants are worn out.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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EJ I'm sure I wouldn't have made it home with that strawberry either.I think you have a wonderful bounty.
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