Oh and 70 new strawberry plants put in tonight
Look at the size of my marrow
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Yorkshire Andy
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Look at the size of my marrow
Traded for some home made preserves that's a focus estate boot so not a small car
Oh and 70 new strawberry plants put in tonight
Oh and 70 new strawberry plants put in tonight
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong 
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Re: Look at the size of my marrow
Nice trade. 
Do you over mulch your plants?
Do you over mulch your plants?
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
Re: Look at the size of my marrow
Oooo err - what are you going to do with it?
Benny Hill lives again Re: Look at the size of my marrow
I see your marrow and raise you 3 Tromboncino.
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Re: Look at the size of my marrow
I will be doing with straw but only put them in tonight need to get a big bigger before I block all the light out
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
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Yorkshire Andy
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Re: Look at the size of my marrow
It's got traded we have family friend who turns anything into jams / pickles / preserves
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
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Yorkshire Andy
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Re: Look at the size of my marrow
That looks like something you'd get from Anne summers
Had a crap year on the allotment with the weather a badly timed holiday then 5 weeks with a knackered foot ligament
Potatoes did nothing 3 rows scraped enough to do one Sunday dinner
Next job is get some more blackcurrant cuttings rooted
One half the plot is going to be soft fruit.. less labour and makes sense to grow "high value" crops be it strawberry blackcurrant / gooseberries.. my dad stripped the gooseberry bushes last year and based in Tesco prices got something like £45 worth .. kids love strawberrys
This weekend think I'll prune the raspberry canes
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Re: Look at the size of my marrow
Apparently the name Tromboncino is Italian slang......... There is a similar Italian squash called "Sicilian Serpents".
I am very impressed by them. You use them as courgettes when they are young - less watery than a normal courgette and as Butternut squash once they are full size which is over a metre long and about ten cm across. Should keep through most of the winter if properly cured. Eat like Butternut squash but there are no seeds in that long neck.
I had 2 in half barrel size pots, one in the ground and one in the compost heap. The compost heap one was a true triffid scrambling along both fences & easily produced more than all the other 3 combined. I picked the last 50cm "courgettes" from it yesterday as we have had frost warning for the weekend
Next year I will grow again - straight into piles of semi rotted compost after this year's learning curve. The compost one also stayed completely clear of powdery mildew which is always a headache in my garden.
Lesson learned.
I am very impressed by them. You use them as courgettes when they are young - less watery than a normal courgette and as Butternut squash once they are full size which is over a metre long and about ten cm across. Should keep through most of the winter if properly cured. Eat like Butternut squash but there are no seeds in that long neck.
I had 2 in half barrel size pots, one in the ground and one in the compost heap. The compost heap one was a true triffid scrambling along both fences & easily produced more than all the other 3 combined. I picked the last 50cm "courgettes" from it yesterday as we have had frost warning for the weekend
Next year I will grow again - straight into piles of semi rotted compost after this year's learning curve. The compost one also stayed completely clear of powdery mildew which is always a headache in my garden.
Lesson learned.