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Post by lily on Jul 3, 2007 7:00:04 GMT
...were picked, steamed and eaten within 20 mins last night and were fab! Just on their own with salt, pepper and butter.
Today the first lettuce in our picnic - we were late getting them going this year!
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Post by faeryboots on Jul 3, 2007 7:11:34 GMT
My tygs went a bit mad with the lettuces this year, my neighbours seem pleased though!
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Post by revmichael on Jul 3, 2007 8:34:20 GMT
You are a cruel Lady young Lily.
My mouth is watering even as I read your post about those freshly-picked runners.
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Post by oldbean on Jul 3, 2007 11:26:20 GMT
I am having my sugar snap peas tonight... I have nursed them through the attack of the pigeons and fought valiantly against the onslaught of slugs and snails with my can of Saxa salt in hand!
A light steaming, a nob of butter and they will be no more!
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Post by Tigger on Jul 3, 2007 14:10:22 GMT
Those *ahem* blasted slugs attacked my beans before they even had a chance to produce any actual beans!  However, I have replanted and thwarted the *ahem* creatures by putting down organic slug pellets (ie ones that won't harm anything else or wildlife that might eat the deaded slugs)... I remain hopeful!  |
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Post by oldbean on Jul 3, 2007 20:39:08 GMT
I ate them... they were delicious. I followed them up with some of strawberries.
Roll on the courgettes!
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Lucy Lastic
Young Limb
Another cynical ex hippy now working for the establishment
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Post by Lucy Lastic on Jul 4, 2007 8:06:54 GMT
My runner beans are still flowers!!!
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Post by Shuggie on Jul 4, 2007 10:23:47 GMT
My runner beans are still flowers!!! Obviously you require pollinating .. |
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Post by Janglers on Jul 4, 2007 11:06:06 GMT
My runner beans are still flowers!!! Obviously you require pollinating .. That's handy: you both living in Scotland. |
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Post by territalks on Jul 4, 2007 12:49:26 GMT
 My Peas never get to the pot I eat them!!!! My runner beans have not even peeped through sob sob!! Love TT xxxx
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Post by vgrumpy on Jul 5, 2007 0:30:07 GMT
Runner beans doing well. Tomatoes in greenhouse, absolute rubbish.
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Post by Lucy Lastic on Jul 5, 2007 10:24:24 GMT
Runner beans doing well. Tomatoes in greenhouse, absolute rubbish. |
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Post by Lucy Lastic on Jul 5, 2007 10:25:49 GMT
My runner beans are still flowers!!! Obviously you require pollinating .. Polly Nating? Is she a gardener? can she make me beans grow? |
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Post by territalks on Jul 5, 2007 12:58:27 GMT
Yes Lucy I do believe she is!!!! I am sure with the help of some lovely bees your garden will flurish!! Love TT xxxx
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Post by erindawes on Jul 5, 2007 17:37:43 GMT
Taken over my late Mum's garden - she grew all her own friut and veg, so on a steep learning curve! Emptied out and eaten huge pots of new potatoes - straight into boiling water and lashings of butter! Had first cucumbers and broad beans and 6 lots of rasperries. Peas nearly ready! Also trying (she'd already sown most seeds when she died) peppers, onions, garlic, shallots, runners, sprouts, squashes, parsley, leeks, melons, chillies, sweetcorn, toms (cooking, tumblers, eaters). Thanks to Mum, I also have plums, greengages, damsons, cooking and eating apples, pears, red and black currents, apricots, gooseberries, rhubarb and main crop tatties. A lovely way to remember a great lady - still gardening a third of an acre at 80! Thanks Mum! XX
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Post by lily on Jul 5, 2007 18:02:54 GMT
Taken over my late Mum's garden - she grew all her own friut and veg, so on a steep learning curve! Emptied out and eaten huge pots of new potatoes - straight into boiling water and lashings of butter! Had first cucumbers and broad beans and 6 lots of rasperries. Peas nearly ready! Also trying (she'd already sown most seeds when she died) peppers, onions, garlic, shallots, runners, sprouts, squashes, parsley, leeks, melons, chillies, sweetcorn, toms (cooking, tumblers, eaters). Thanks to Mum, I also have plums, greengages, damsons, cooking and eating apples, pears, red and black currents, apricots, gooseberries, rhubarb and main crop tatties. A lovely way to remember a great lady - still gardening a third of an acre at 80! Thanks Mum! XX
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Post by Lucy Lastic on Jul 5, 2007 22:12:11 GMT
Yes Lucy I do believe she is!!!! I am sure with the help of some lovely bees your garden will flurish!! Love TT xxxx |
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Post by Fi on Jul 5, 2007 22:51:03 GMT
Taken over my late Mum's garden - she grew all her own friut and veg, so on a steep learning curve! Emptied out and eaten huge pots of new potatoes - straight into boiling water and lashings of butter! Had first cucumbers and broad beans and 6 lots of rasperries. Peas nearly ready! Also trying (she'd already sown most seeds when she died) peppers, onions, garlic, shallots, runners, sprouts, squashes, parsley, leeks, melons, chillies, sweetcorn, toms (cooking, tumblers, eaters). Thanks to Mum, I also have plums, greengages, damsons, cooking and eating apples, pears, red and black currents, apricots, gooseberries, rhubarb and main crop tatties. A lovely way to remember a great lady - still gardening a third of an acre at 80! Thanks Mum! XX |
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