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I am of that small percentage of people who get VERY sick from Quorn so I won't advertise it.

Good: Hot peppers Small tomatoes, just ripening before dying of blight) French beans Swiss chard Eggplant Basil Rosemary Average: bokchoi and salad leaves Bad: big tomatoes (rotten) Oregano (old one, I need to plant some new ones next year) Sage (something's been eating it) Cucumbers (a disaster)3 T...

My Fresno's and cayennes are slowly ripening, my sweet peppers too. My Jalapenos are a-plenty. I should have a big harvest, if it stops raining a btit though. I put an extra not so strong fresno plant on my north face/no light front garden as an experiment and guess what, although it has nothing to ...

oooooooooh I didn't know neither!
Now I understand why some of my squash did turn into big round courgettes!

MMM - in case you're looking for a recipe idea - Madhur Jaffrey has a good spicy green bean recipe. Try Googling for her Gujarati-style green beans. Nice curry side dish. Or Indonesian style. In Dutch it would be "hete boontjes", pretty much beans, a shallot, some hot "Sambal" (...

So of course it is just when I am about to go on holidays that my tomatoes are starting to ripen. Although sharing with people/garden care has been arranged, I was wondering how long a ripe tomato could stay on the plant or be kept after being plucked without well, turning bad. I could ask people to...

I made courgette chutney with a bunch of mine, using this way two gluts :D

I have the exact same "problem".

Help!!!

I am! I have one in the backyard and have a few tiny fruits, about half an inch. But we are having a really rotten summer so far here in the NL.

My first plum tomatoe as ripened though and I have a few other varieties who have good sized fruits so it seems like the costoluto might be a slow grower...

Hoi hoi!

I can't enter in a lush shop personally. Gives me a headache.

7- La France - 12 points

Yesterday we went to a town 40 km from home, and the friends we met up there just COULD NOT understand why we took the train although we have a car. *shrugs*

In France we used to have a cleaning produce called "Ajax ammoniaque" so I am not that shocked. I really dislike the smell too though. Let's go for lemon and lavender instead

Oh ok as long as they are not harmful... The sun of the past days seem to have destroy most of them...

Thanks!