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I cant believe what some people are like. We are so used to seeing dirt on our produce we find it strange to buy clean ones from the supermarkets or local green grocer. Red spuds for this week were dug in the rain so are "filthy", Fantastic!!!! One of them was about 8 inches long and huge ...

Not been on forum for a bit, very busy and the site has been disallowed at work :( Oh well best do some work from now on! :lol: Been busy up plot clearing finished plants and weeding spring beds. Still picking runners, harvesting last of main crop, marrows, tomatoes and looking forward to the butter...

Well done, good work.

Stuffed marrowis just the best, OH does them with mince & rice then covers with a tomato & herb sauce and also a version with sausage meat and cheese sauce. I have picked what I think will be the last one this year. Our plants were all early we have had caugettes and marrow since early June ...

Tee Hee! I have seen them before but they always make you giggle!

I was very impressed with our plants over the weekend. Lots of squashes on each one (around 10-15) although small (5" high x 3" across) they are all starting go change colour slightly. I had assumed they would get bigger then change colour. I didnt think they would be ready until November ...

I have been growing chillies for a few years now and as each year goes by are always shocked by them. This year I have grow some naga jolkia's and boy they are hot. However I do have a Fresno which is about 5 years old. A small red pod from this is much stronger than a green first year naga pod from...

P.S. Our red onions were very small apart from a few!

The whites were fantastic mind you! So not all bad.

Good harvest again this weekend. Spent a good few hours catching up on jobs, weeding, clearing beds, composting etc. Brought home. Runners, marrow, caugettes, red main crop potatoes, corn cobs, raddish, carrots, apples, sweed, spinnach, tomatoes, red cabbage, white cabbage and kale. Still got cucumb...

I am not 100 percent sure but I would think they are. Its worth keeping a couple of plants and giving it a go.

I usually grow most plants in early spring from seed but do keep a couple of chilli plants over winter and they do fine every year. I will try a pepper this year as well.

Our atlantic giant is 25inches across at present, only one on two plants though. Squashes are going mad as well with lots of fruit.

Yes you can grow peppers from seeds from supermarkets and they will grow fine. They need time to mature (ie plant in spring) and are better in a greenhouse. I have found the peppers even with feed are slightly smaller but very tatsy. Give it a go, the kids will have great fun, perhaps get them a pro...

Had first cob last night. It was fantastic, shame we wont get many this year.

I will make it my mission to germinate lots of seeds next year a dedicate a large area to grow lots. We will see.

Chillies are all doing fab, apart from some of the jalapenos are outside in the wind. I have had pods from Jalapenos, Naga Jolkia, Fresno, Scotch Bonnet, Cayenne and the Twilights are a mass of chillies but all white/cream in colour at the moment. The ozzoco (I think it is spelt correctly) is very s...

Yes we string them up too. Just drying the ones for seeds for next year managing to not eat every chilli from every plant, we love em, kids too. Pickled some Jalapenos as well! Yum! I have a great picture of me eating a Naga Jolkia (straight off the plant) at OH birthday party I will post. Yes I had...