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windy · Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 143 Location: wiltshire

Hi All, well does life get any better than this, being able to step out side your back door and pick broad beans and fresh peas, the taste is out of this world, I'll be eating some (more I'm eating them as I'm podding them) for tonight's tea, I'm freezing some for a later time, Very Happy

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wardy · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:02 pm Post subject:

Not a bad haul there Windy Very Happy

I envy you eating fresh peas as mine are titchy and rabbit nibbled so I have to wait a while for my first taste. Worth waiting for though ey Very Happy

Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3364 Location: Herts

aha deja vue!! Rolling Eyes

Did they taste nice?? Very Happy

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SeedQueen · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 606

Yes very envious, they look lovely

daveandtara · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:01 pm Post subject:

I'm tucking into my first broad beans as I type (in a nice veggie risotto) but I've nowhere near as many as you windy! Very Happy

are they all from your back garden?

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windy · Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 143 Location: wiltshire

hi

D&T, Yeah all mine Very Happy

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frenchchique · Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 3506 Location: Kent

Wow, very nice they are too Cool

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Icyberjunkie · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:47 pm Post subject:

Don't even TALK about beans Sad

MY frenchies are sat sulking refusing to even think abuot climbing up my trendy rustic poles. Fed, watered and lazy as you like so I've had abuot two handfuls instead of the expected two carrier bags!

Got some absolutely perfect carrots thuogh. Dead straight, no carrot fly, great taste and colour, good size and good germination. ONly problem is I have lost the packet, don't know where I got them from, can't remember the name or even if they came from a catalogue - or why I changed from my normal variety Embarassed

Anyone know a good way to identify the variety Rolling Eyes

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wardy · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject:

are you kidding! Since when did we know owt Twisted Evil

Same here with runners Rolling Eyes

I dare say they'll get their act together eventually Very Happy

growing veg · Joined: 05 Jul 2007 Posts: 256 Location: The Emerald Isle

Some of you might have seen these pics I posted over on the AVG forum, but if not, here's my latest haul Very Happy

Dead proud!! I love this plottering lark Laughing

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daveandtara · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:07 am Post subject:

watcha GV (waves) Very Happy

that's a great haul you got there Very Happy

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Delilah · Site drunken fairy Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 3933

Hi there GV Laughing

excellent piccies Cool

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Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3364 Location: Herts

a ha!! ... deja vu!!! Rolling Eyes

are those witkam broadies by any chance?

... bet those sweedes kept the couch at bay!!! Wink

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SeedQueen · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 606

Well done GV Very Happy

wardy · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:00 am Post subject:

Hi GV

some good stuff there. I'm loving eating new spuds too Very Happy

growing veg · Joined: 05 Jul 2007 Posts: 256 Location: The Emerald Isle

Thanks everyone! I'm totally addicted now Laughing

Know what you mean about the spuds, Wardy ... really yum!
Flo, yep, the beans are Witikem manita ... if that's the right spelling.
I've had loads off them .. they just keep flowering ... really tasty too Cool

redimp · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:22 pm Post subject:

Cos I'm going away and Pissed-ol Pete is a tad unreliable I have harvested everything that will be harvestable within the next seven days. So I have tons of courgettes from about 20cm long to 3cm long and unpollinated (will use these whole tonight) and stripped all my bean plants (runners and French). I have also cut the last of my spring cabbage (my summer ones are a bit sluggish though) and dug loads of new spuds. I have loads of tomatoes but no red ones - think that they will all go red Sunday Rolling Eyes

I have even got a second flush of broad beans because I cut them down to ground level when they finished and the plants have (as hoped) sprung back to life.

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