Lovely

First spuds from the allotment[1] today. Currently in the pan, some five
minutes after being dug up. Marvellous.



[1] All pikey comments will be addressed with a cheery and hearty **** off.

 

Only another 25 years and you'll have saved enough for a new set of ear
plugs!

Life's short? In your face, lady Nina!

 

< fx: Examines tangent from which Porl exited original thread at some
speed.>

 

This is something I might think of doing myself, except I want around
2kg of spuds a week, not 30kg once a year.

I suppose that's why God invented supermarkets.

 

Succesive sowing innit. Have been planting half rows, a couple of weeks
apart.

 

I'm a little concerned by the relative positions.. it just doesn't seem
right, somehow.

 

Our spuds are coming on lovely in The Doctor's allotment. I was hoeing
them and weeding them today.

And we've just picked a load of mangetout and broad beans.

*Yum*

 

Update. Have just eaten spuds. They *were* lovely. So thats nice. Plus I was
able to mock the people either side of my plot who have failed miserably to
keep the weeds at bay.Which was also nice. Reckon I'll have the first of the
peas by the end of the week. The difference between these and the pea-like
objects available from the supermarkets is a source of wonder.

 

That's us, that is.

Her second plot has just been dosed with weedkiller as a last resort.

 

You're not a slightly dishevelled journalist in his early sixties with a
collection of SOB's are you? Small world. Your mangetout look nice though.

 

So how long between your first feasible harvest and the last? I mean
there's got to be a season that you can't go outside?

 

Not at all. Allotments rock. Fresh veg rocks.

 

Sowing the stuff at intervals means you don't get a glut but obvously you
can't harvest certain stuff all year round. Looking at just the spuds, I've
planted earlies, 2nd earlies and main crop. The earlies and 2nd earlies
will last the next two months or so but will get progressive larger and less
'early like', ie they will be bigger and need peeling. The lates can stay in
the ground until it starts to get colder and I will then lift and store them
and hopefully have enough to last the winter.

Same goes for stuff like onions. You have spring onions throughout the
summer and lift the big ones to get you through the winter. I currently have
five left from last year and the new ones are now starting to be picked.

Some stuff can stay in thru the winter like sprouts and parsnips, which
actually taste better after a frost or two.

In short you can have fresh veg all year round but not the same veg through
the year. On the otherhand you get tomatoes from the supermarket all year
round but they taste of **** all.

 

TEOG?

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "flashgorman"

That's his older brother, Mycroft.

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In uk.rec.motorcycles, flashgorman said:

Proper peas are delish. I used to go with my Grandad to his allotment
before he died (God rest 'is soul) and they were gorgeous.

Having the willpower to put them in the pan instead of eating them raw
was a source of wonder, too.

He used to do a very nice line in runner beans and tomatoes as well,
JFYI

 

Well this is what foxes me, see. You'll harvest them, presumably
before the first frost and they'll last the winter. Beats the hell out
of me how, as I can't persuade spuds to last more than 2 weeks without
sprouting. Perhaps I just don't have the right conditions to store
them correctly.

I'm probably contented in my ignorance right now as the veg from the
supermarket tastes just fine to me.

 

Notwithstanding the oft-quoted assertion that your sense of taste is
negligible, they may well taste of tomato - until you taste a _real_
tomato. Then you (or at least, somebody with a sense of taste) will
realise the difference.

 

They last ages in a cool shed if you keep the light off them. In the kitchen
cupboard in the plaggy bag they came from the supermarket in is about the
worst possible way you can keep spuds.

 

Grow your own herbs or vegtables, sow seeds, thin out, plant up,
water, feed, keep the fecking snails and slugs off them, protect from
frosts, watch grow and flower and seed, harvest, eat and find out.

Or just grow flowers and enjoy watching the bees in the sunshine.

It's as close to something spiritual as I get. But this year I seem to
be mostly killing what grew really well last year. <goes off to muse>