Regarding paste tomatoes - I've grown Jersey Devil and Antique Roman from Plants of Distinction. They look like long peppers and are very dense with a lovely flavour. No problem with blossom end rot.
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- Sun Jun 12, 2011 2:00 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Tomato Varieties
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10012
- Fri Jun 10, 2011 2:07 pm
- Forum: Cooking tips
- Topic: roasted new potatoes
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3634
Re: roasted new potatoes
Thanks for replies.
Yes, Alan, it was Peter's one. I don't know why I couldn't find it. Thanks a lot.
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Yes, Alan, it was Peter's one. I don't know why I couldn't find it. Thanks a lot.
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Granny
- Thu Jun 09, 2011 5:56 pm
- Forum: Cooking tips
- Topic: roasted new potatoes
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3634
roasted new potatoes
Some time ago - over a year - there was a recipe on this forum for roasted new potatoes. It involved smashing them with a large knife at some stage and I'm sure garlic and herbs came into it as well. I've been looking for this and can't find it. Does anyone remember this method or knows how to cook ...
- Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:02 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: ash on alliums
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2423
Re: ash on alliums
Thanks a lot. I'll wait a bit, then.
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- Tue Mar 29, 2011 1:35 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: ash on alliums
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2423
ash on alliums
I know it's a good idea to put wood ash on onions and garlic, but I'm sure I've read somewhere that there's an optimum time for doing this. Can anyone help, please? Thanks.
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- Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:02 am
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Another potato question
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3840
Re: Another potato question
Alan, I think you could well be right. I'd tried the potato council and saw Cabaret and didn't connect. Well spotted! My ones look just like the photo - very oval, even shape and size, yellow skins etc. I can just imagine someone from the suppliers saying the name to the printers over the phone and ...
- Fri Feb 04, 2011 8:53 am
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: Another potato question
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3840
Re: Another potato question
I've just bought a new variety to me - Cabernet. I can't find it on any websites - in fact when I typed in 'potato variety + Cabernet' I got recipes on potatoes with Cabernet Sauvignon! There was no information on the advertising card where I bought them. Has anyone else heard of this variety? -----...
- Sun Sep 05, 2010 1:37 pm
- Forum: Harvesting Q&A
- Topic: Storing cucumbers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8844
Re: Storing cucumbers
How about cucumber soup - hot or chilled.
1kg cucumbers
onion and garlic
chicken stock.
Fry onion and garlic in butter, add chopped cucumber, add stock.
Cook 20mins
Liquidise.
Works very well with courgettes - again, hot or chilled.
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1kg cucumbers
onion and garlic
chicken stock.
Fry onion and garlic in butter, add chopped cucumber, add stock.
Cook 20mins
Liquidise.
Works very well with courgettes - again, hot or chilled.
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Granny
- Sun Sep 05, 2010 1:33 pm
- Forum: Harvesting Q&A
- Topic: Insides of marrows
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4630
Re: Insides of marrows
I freeze overgrown courgettes: scoop out seeds, cut into chunks, 1lb in a bag. I freeze tomatoes as well. You can make a perfectly good simple ratatouille by frying onion and garlic then tipping in courgette and tomato straight from frozen. It takes longer to cook, of course, and you spend a bit of ...
- Thu Aug 19, 2010 3:42 pm
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Cucumber plant - yellowing leaves
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3006
Re: Cucumber plant - yellowing leaves
My cucumbers leaves always go yellow. It doesn't seem to do any harm. The new leaves are always green. I just assumed they were supposed to do that.
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- Thu Aug 19, 2010 3:40 pm
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Can you make a liquid fertiliser with Alkanet?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8745
Re: Can you make a liquid fertiliser with Alkanet?
I've got more alkanet than comfrey in my garden and have used both as fertiliser for a few years now. I'm very imprecise. I have a 100 litre water butt which I fill with water and put an onion sack (one of those made from orange plastic mesh) stuffed full of comfrey/alkanet leaves in it. Leave it fo...
- Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:11 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Saving Seeds
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3181
Re: Saving Seeds
But be warned, keep them somewhere safe - I left a whole pile of peas drying in a barn and the mice ate the lot!
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- Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:07 am
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Maggots/larvae in my comfrey tea
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3069
Re: Maggots/larvae in my comfrey tea
Thanks for replies and useful advice. I'm amazed that things so big only produce a gnat!
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- Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:23 pm
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Maggots/larvae in my comfrey tea
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3069
Maggots/larvae in my comfrey tea
I've be brewing comfrey tea (just leaves in water in a bucket with a lid on it) for about 3 weeks. When I took the lid off today there were a lot of maggotty things with a long thread like tail wriggling about in it. About an inch long, white, and quite a few of them seemed to be almost tied togethe...
- Tue Jun 29, 2010 10:20 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Non-flowering potatoes
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6303
Re: Non-flowering potatoes
Alan, We did, they were, we did. Thanks.
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