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03-07-2007, 03:27 PM
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 Just Harvested the Onions We are very pleased with our onions. Over wintered from sets. Might grow some sets myself, I have been told to sow the seeds that are ready immediately. Phreddy      |
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03-07-2007, 03:28 PM
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| wow they look great!
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03-07-2007, 05:41 PM
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| Superb harvest Phreddy, what variety are they? Your soil looks drier than mine. Welcome to the vine btw
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03-07-2007, 06:52 PM
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| Wow! well done! Very impressive! Bernie 
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03-07-2007, 06:56 PM
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| Very impressive Phreddy! Was they grown from set or seed, and overwintering or spring planted? Our first batch of overwintering were ready about a week ago, so got harvested and are great, but no where near the amount of yours! Our next batch should be ready any time now, then we've the onion from seed to harvest later on too! In total we've about 300 onions growing, about half of which are red, and they are going great guns! I love onions! 
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03-07-2007, 08:23 PM
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Onions look fab Phreddy - and I'm jealous of your red onions, Mrs D. Jealous of virtually any onions, actually, given our eelworm probs at the Hill earlier in the year. 
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03-07-2007, 09:03 PM
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Our reds are doing really well, share you're not closer Hazel, as we've about 170 odd of them growing away nicely, and I'd chuck you a few, as I'm not sure they are going to store well, but we'll see!
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03-07-2007, 09:09 PM
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| Wow, what a crop!! My onions are way behind those, but I do only have a small container garden |
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03-07-2007, 09:21 PM
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| They look very good I pulled mine about two weeks ago.Mine were also overwintered from sets (planted out in October)
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03-07-2007, 09:58 PM
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| Great looking onions Phreddy. I just grew red onions from set this year. Not for storing - but just to eat as I went along, and to put in salads while waiting for the spring onions. I was pleased with the result. 
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04-07-2007, 10:16 AM
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| Cor, what a woppa (Sun headlines!) That's an impressive onion crop Phreddy. Welcome to the grapevine. What else are you growing - you're obviously an Onion Guru! Alice, your red onion looks great. Mine have never been very big - I stick to Sturon sets now - I haven't room for passengers!
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04-07-2007, 10:35 AM
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| Don't know what sort! I garden in Bulgaria, bought sets by the kilo and planted them. We don't seem to have 'sorts' here only onions. EarthBabe: I'd say it is dry we haven't had any rain to speak of for months. Soil is very sandy and I need to get some humas in it. I have 3 compost heaps almost ready. Flummery: Mostly toms and a few Butternut squash, cues, aubergine and lots of maybe origano or savory. Bought seedlings of something that smelled nice! Phreddy |
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04-07-2007, 11:33 AM
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| Well if they're anything like your onions you'll eat well! Nice to hear what's growing elsewhere.
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06-07-2007, 01:27 PM
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| Forgot to mention that we have around 60 fruit trees. Last year was spectacular, eating necterines warm off the tree and having to bend so that the juice dropped onto the ground. This year it was a mild winter with no snow - usually up to 4 feet deep. Result, little water getting down in the earth and few fruits forming. Grapes are doing alright though. Phreddy |
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12-07-2007, 10:31 PM
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13-07-2007, 11:49 AM
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| Sounds fantastic Phreddy, do you make your own rakia? I got quite a taste for it when I was over in Bulgaria on a work trip three years ago...
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13-07-2007, 01:20 PM
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| Ah! Now that is the wife's department. Last year we filled 2 x 120 litre bidons (Those blue barrels that one sees around alotments) with 'material' (plums or sliver, water and sugar). Took it to the village KAZAN (still) and spent about 4 hours distilling it. Ended up with 50 litres of rakia. Costs: £4 each for the barrels, £8 for sugar, £4 for rent of the kazan. £3 for rent of the donkey to transport the lot between home and still. We had lots of cherries so made some cherry rakia. That is nice. Wanted to make some sloe rakia but couldn't find enough blackthorn bushes. I would add that we do not drink! We are known in the village as 'no alcohol' There is much sadness in the village this year. In mid to late march when the fruit trees were in flower there was a week of heavy frosts. All our trees are bereft of fruit so no rakia this year. Grapes are going well though so there may be a wine harvest and some of that distilled. Phreddy |
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16-07-2007, 12:59 PM
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| No Rakia?? That will be one depressed bunch of Bulgarians. What do you do with 50 litres of rakia if you don't drink it? £3 for rent of a donkey for transport... love it...
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16-07-2007, 07:04 PM
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| It was a one off, we just had to! From the licensing laws and the taxes of the UK to a land of make your own booze? No question!! What do we do with it? Bulgarians are the most hospitipal people you could wish to meet. If you admire their flowers they pick them for you. This couses us problem when we just want to look and maybe ask for some seeds or a cutting but before you can say anything it is picked along with a few more. Not an even number of blooms either - that is either bad luck or rude, whichever, just not done. So a half a litre of rakia in an old water bottle is most welcome. The ladies are particularly impressed with the cherry sort. Loads of sugar and they do like that. By this time the kazan should be in full swing. But the drought doesn't help either, or I'm sure they'd make it of something else.Grapes are doing well so I suspect all is not lost for this year. Phreddy |
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