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Stephen wrote:Hi Pa
Well done. You are more conscientious that I, who never weighs my crops.



Hi Stephen.

I find it handy to know cost of yield combined with notes on taste


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I am thinking our local horticultural show section may be a bit thin on the ground for entries this year. We certainly have not got a lot to enter and nor have a couple of other mainstays of the show. We'll have even less if blight hits the toms. I had better try and sort the potato haulms out today as well just in case.

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Geoff wrote:Is that a new cure for blight?


Maybe, but as my memory serves me (at least that still works) a pinch of salt adds flavour (as I recall) to the tomatoes.


Mind you nothing would surprise me when it comes to old wives tales about blight cures.

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Oh dear Pa, I,ve not yet received a warning but you're close enough to us for us to be the next to receive a warning . Just as the tomato plants are dripping with fruit and starting to ripen too! I shall remove the thick net curtain from my peppers and place it over some of the tomato plants but I doubt that will be enough to protect them.
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Did not get any further warnings the following day. Fingers crossed, no sign of blight so far.

Ability to eat decreasing, taste buds shot. However Mrs S and my daughter both keep me informed as to how crops are tasting and on rare occasions I get a hint of taste for myself.

Yesterday I picked this little selection some of which became part of last nights meal for Mrs S and I..

Tomatoes, Crimson Crush and Golden Sunrise (fairly obvious which is which except maybe to anyone colour blind))
2 heads of Broccoli Calabrese (which I am told was very tasty)
2 x Courgette

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Tht looks a nice photo shot for one of those healthy eating articles. Shame about your appetite and taste buds Pa. any chance you can whizz them in a blender and perhaps still get some health benefits from them as a smoothie or a chilled gazpacho type soup?
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8 plants second early potatoes dug up by daughter yesterday, yield 17lb of very clean potatoes.

Still got 4 x Winston and 30 King Edward to dig out.

Hoping Edwards will provide the class entry for local show 8th Sept. Not exactly a profusion of things to enter in any class this year and I am not alone with that problem.

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Primrose wrote: Shame about your appetite and taste buds Pa. any chance you can whizz them in a blender and perhaps still get some health benefits from them as a smoothie or a chilled gazpacho type soup?


Got a feeling whisking my taste buds might be painful and the subsequent smoothie or soup would be very red :lol:

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I thought I would make some soup out of the sprigs of broccoli that normally I leave on the plant until they throw yellow flowers up, yesterday I went round with the secutares and managed a decent amount,these are from the sprouting broccoli this year I've mainly grown calabres to stop the sprouting bits but I think I might have to have a rethink as the soup is lovely
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