I am going to sow some Swiss Chard later. Might do some spinach later but I have some of that germinated in me mixed salad mix Had to resow half my Kale (again) and Wheelers cabbage because my homebased slugs and snails went through them. They are currently hanging from the washing line in a plastic bag waiting for me to walk the dog later. Up the plot I did some digging (next years tattie bed) and picked loads of beans and pulled up Greyhoud cabbage. That all went in a curry (dhalish) for tea. I am practicing a new tune as we speak.

Hey Ade the chard on our group plot looks gorgeous. it's all voluptuous and shiny

Digging yer tattie bed. You poor misguided fool you

My next spring's cabbage patch is this year's spud patch. No work being done just covered up the manure is all. Hopefully by spring the manure will have been taken down

I was feeling smug about me no dig soil today cos I was sowing seeds in it

I only dig my potatoes and my beans. The rest is no dig. Unfortunately the slugs hide under my mulch and then eat everything when I am not looking. Even hiding slug pellets in containers means you cannot claim to be organic so not prepared to do that.

I don't claim to be owt Don't like slug pellets in contact wi me veg though but in me boxes they're dry so no run off. I usually site em in the corners of me raised beds where the little sods hang about. Did the same thing today but with some lagers dregs. I've sown seeds and don't want em munched off before they get a chance

Just got back from the plot and as soon as I got there the heavens opened. I sat in the door of the shed watching the rain lashing down and blowing about. It was absolutely boiling in the shed and I started to nod off Picked tomatoes, some lovely courgettes and some great big fat Desirees for tea

Ooooh bliss Wards! Well, maybe not the rain....
Went plotting too and weeded my leeks bed.... They've survived the drought Oh and weeded the sprouts... The lettuces I had interplanted - Ha! - were nowhere to be seen but the bindweed's going great guns
Sick of weeding actually Oh I'm going to open a new thread...

what a lovely day here, accosted by site rep who said I should cut all the leaves off me toms to help them ripen. What do you think? Seems like unproductive time to me, is it worth it IYO?

spent three happy hours pottering and harvesting instead

OOh that all looks pretty darn gorgeous I took some foliage off me toms the other day cos they reckon the plant needs it energies to produce and ripen fruit but don't know exactly. I have been taking foliage off regularly but there was still too much on so had another go. They are fruiting and ripening well so maybe it's true I keep eating the split ones first

I've not been to mine since Sunday worse luck cos waiting for incoming. Spent the last 20 minutes hoovering up the sugar I spilled while hoovering up the box of loose tea I spilled. What a klutz

WOW!!! SS!!! Bootiful!!!

Not been on mine either....

I must try and get there tomorrow after work...

ty so much, toms are in the pan, beet cooked, beans shelled and dwarfies/sweetcorn in the freezer <smug>
oh I'd have emptied the milk on the floor too and popped a spigot on the vac for instant tea

Frozen your sweetcorn You not eating any fresh then I love the stuff and have to eat it straight away cos I'm a greedy pig and just love it. Slurp

Oh don't. I picked four on Sunday, thinking one each and two for freezer. Wrong! One made it in, Sir half inched two and I got one...

I do know what you mean - there's just something about corn on the cob.

I grow more each year (I'm up to 28 plants now) but somehow they all vanish!

moonbells

wouldn't normally freeze sweetcorn but next few meals spoken for. Six cobs made a small bagful, still finding bits of sweetcorn in my socks

why you got sweetcorn in yer socks sunny

never wear socks when you're stripping sweetcorn

I got paid in sweetcorn, red cabbage and cooking apples today for some tickets I made for a party I love braised red cabbage just as much as sweetcorn wi butter on

with good local bangers, mmmmm

Beautiful harvest Sunny

sunny yer dribbling

nawww, that smiley must have sprung a leak, last time I get em off eBay

you really need Wardys braised cabbage recipe, its fab ....I'll dig it out, or maybe Wards will have got here before I get back

Traditional Braised Red Cabbage (a la Delia)

2 lb (1 kg) red cabbage
1 lb (450 g) cooking apples, peeled, cored and chopped small
1 lb (450 g) onions, chopped small
1 clove garlic, chopped very small
¼ whole nutmeg, freshly grated
¼ level teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ level teaspoon ground cloves
3 level tablespoons brown sugar
3 tablespoons wine vinegar
½ oz (15 g) butter
salt and freshly milled black pepper

Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 2, 300°F (150°C).First discard the tough outer leaves of the cabbage, cut it into quarters and remove the hard stalk. Then shred the rest of the cabbage finely, using your sharpest knife (although you can shred it in a food processor, I prefer to do it by hand: it doesn't come out so uniform). Next, in a fairly large casserole, arrange a layer of shredded cabbage seasoned with salt and pepper, then a layer of chopped onions and apples with a sprinkling of garlic, spices and sugar. Continue with these alternate layers until everything is in.

Now pour in the wine vinegar, lastly add dots of butter on the top. Put a tight lid on the casserole and let it cook very slowly in the oven for 2-2½ hours, stirring everything around once or twice during the cooking. Red cabbage, once cooked, will keep warm without coming to any harm, and it will also re-heat very successfully. And, yes, it does freeze well so, all in all, it's a real winner of a recipe.

Haven't been to the plot for a fortnight and got a bit of a shock ... came home with this lot

Hee hee FL Just think how much that little lot would have cost at the supermarket Lovely looking stuff. Giz the squash