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Old 21-05-2008, 03:47 PM
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omg i TOTALLY know how you feel!!! For me and alan, and the two kids (who, let's face it, probably won't attempt much of the veg at all ) we have growing...

8 standard bush courgettes
7 'golfball' bush courgettes
30 runner beans
2 aubergines
19 tomatoes
25 chillies (various)
30 peppers (various)
12 cucumbers
3 'atlantic giant' pumpkins
4 butternut squash
32 sweetcorn
hundreds of carrots (standard and parmex)
a few radishes
a few beetroot
3ft by 4.5ft bed filled with 'cut and come again' mixed chinese leaves (yummy they are too!)
5 strawberries
56 onions
18 dwarf broad beans
12 summer cabbages
1 compost bag of potatoes
all manner of herbs

phew! i think that's it... i'm sure i'll remember more though! lol

my aim is to blanche and freeze a lot of it, make chutney with some of it, and cook basic sauces with a lot of it, which can then be frozen and added to all sorts of dinners during the winter months!

good luck with yours!!! great isn't it!

Edited to add :

Oops! lol. I forgot the gooseberry bush, the 3 rhubarb plants (which are mostly gone now, and been used for rhubarb chutney already) and the two HUGE victoria plum trees which should yield quite a few kilos of plums each this year!!

Oh, and lots of nasturtiums for eating too!
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3 chooks (getting some more soon), 2 goats, 1 pony, 1 dog, 2 geese, 18 wild ducks, 3 veg plots, 2 kids and the OH

Am i mad?

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