Kitchen Garden Forum

Count me in too.

That was me.

Count me in.

Anybody want anything in particular?

Well, thats the Malvern tickets bought, and even entry to the Gold car park, posh or what?

I expect to have various tomatoes, sweet chillies and leek plants as well as some plugs of various flowers suitable for cutting and brassicas.

Can I swap some of your squashes Lake View?

Now, how'd you guess what I'd bring?

If I can make it, you're all welcome to my squashes and pumpkins (and some other 'funny American things' called summer squash, like courgettes)!

Grand Lake View, I`d try most things once, just ask Grock.

And, those 'funny American things' as my husband calls them (Summer Squash straightneck or crookneck) are now available here in the UK (but quite a secret, I think) from the Organic Gardening Catalogue
http://www.organiccatalog.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_22_43_114&products_id=1597

They grow much like courgettes, and very prolific. The flesh is almost creamy, and really delicious when young and tender. I've converted a couple of my fellow allotment holders to them. In America there are whole sections of cookbooks dedicated to recipes for using the crop, which, with only 2-3 plants, can be overwhelming!

Thanks for the tip chuck, can you reccommend any specific variety for me to try out.

Lakeview, you say lots of recipes.

Got any for Winter Squash?

We bake to go with roast meals and chunk-n-splash into stews, soups & curries.

But am unsure about Pumpkin Pie and other more esoteric American stuff.

Does anybody who is going to the show want any Calendula as I have managed to sow twice (blonde moment) and therefore have shedloads of seedlings ready to prick out over and above my requirements. I would sooner find a home for them than toss them into the compost bin.

I could take some to work for our horticultural group. They're always glad to have anything - I take them all my spare stuff, once my colleagues have had first go at raiding!