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23-12-2006, 05:23 PM
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 GYO Xmas (or PC festive period!) OK ..so we have all been so busy on the lottie/veg patch this year... Just wondered if anyone has managed to GYO Xmas ( or....) dinner ? Most of my veg has been noshed- other than grub eaten carrots! Parsnips are about the only thing left for Xmas Day  So my wonderful offering is ...parsnips! Anyone managed more??      |
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23-12-2006, 05:38 PM
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| Carrots, turnips,Spring cabbage,Onions, tatties(stored), Beans(frozen) Working on the Turkey for next year though and the Christmas new tatties(failure this year)! 
__________________ My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE) |
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23-12-2006, 05:58 PM
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| Frozen beans (French and Broad), peas. Still got squash of various kinds, sprouts, kale, cabbage potatoes, parsnips,scorzonera and leeks . No onions cos we got white rot and no carrots cos they will not grow here. |
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23-12-2006, 06:54 PM
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| Tried to grow some tatties for Christmas Day - unfortunately they were killed by the hard frosts we had in November! Lesson learned for next year methinks! Dexterdog
__________________ Appreciate the little things in life because one day you will realise they are the big things |
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23-12-2006, 08:52 PM
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| I am off up to my plot tomorrow to harvest parsnips ( quite large) but tasty, tested last week leeks ( small) but very tasty Sprouts (small) but the first I have managed to grow. Not bad! I ran out of potatoes a while back because I did not grow enough so need to plan better for next year. Happy GYO eating everybody Hope you all have a good Christmas Cheers |
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23-12-2006, 08:57 PM
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| Not a lot! Onions, shallots and kurly kale, a few late carrots (quite small). Purple sprouting broccoli is starting to make shoots, but not ready yet. Had to go to ASDA this year - will try and plan better next year. |
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23-12-2006, 09:06 PM
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| With not getting our plot until after the growing season we've nothing GYO'd for our feast, but hopefully we will have next year! Hope all who have some home grown produce enjoy it on the big day!
__________________ Blessings Suzanne (aka Mrs Dobby) 'Garden naked - get some colour in your cheeks'! The Dobby's Pumpkin Patch - a blogspot work in progress! Last updated 12th September 2008 - updated balance sheet! |
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23-12-2006, 09:58 PM
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| I'm not too disappointed Nicos and aim to do much better next year. I've had to freeze some things but I've got my own carrots, beans, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, garlic, spring onions , leaves, and a few more. It will all feature somewhere in the feast along with the apples from my daughters garden and - in a different vein - home made bread. Just wait til next year. Merry Christmas and every best wish for the year ahead. |
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23-12-2006, 09:59 PM
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| Didn't do it this year, but one year I said to my Dad (who has an allotment) to do the veg for Christmas and I'd do the meat. The following week I turned up with 6 turkey poults in the back of the car, ready to fatten up for the day. He thought I was going to order one.  Have to say it was the best tasting turkey I have ever hadHad to tell a fib to the children though cos they wouldn't have eaten it otherwise |
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23-12-2006, 10:05 PM
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| well we have duck in freezer, but going to parents who get a massive free turkey every year, got a few sprouts, a cabbage or two, onions and tatties, thats about it really, diddnt get lottie till june so not bad.
__________________ Yo an' Bob Walk lightly on the earth take only what you need give all you can and your produce will be bountifull |
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23-12-2006, 11:51 PM
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| For Christmas dinner we have - Salmon with freshly picked lettuce from the tunnel and a dried herb dressing, lamb with new potatoes (freshly dug), mashed stored potatoes, onions and dried herbs (in the stuffing), carrots and parsnips (freshly dug) and frozen beans and peas, and of course home-made mint sauce. Followed by rhubarb crumble and a tot of rhubarb schnapps. And we are looking out at some fantastic yellow pansies and flowering kale in the greenhouse! Pretty chuffed actually! Totally due to the double figure temperatures we are getting at the moment and have had since October! 11 degrees again today. Last edited by JennieAtkinson; 23-12-2006 at 11:52 PM. |
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24-12-2006, 03:58 PM
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| SO thats everyone round JA's for chrimbo & then Boxing day party at LJ's
__________________ ntg  Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic http://grief-encounters.blogspot.com/ ================================================== The All New Home page of Hartshill Allotments full of useful bits http://www.hags.btik.com |
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24-12-2006, 05:15 PM
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| Not wanting to boast but for our Yule dinner we will be having: Jam on toast for Breakfast Potatoes (Kestral) still stored in the garage Parsnips (Tender True) picked today Leeks picked today Jeruslem Artichoke picked today Runner Beans frozen in the autumn Carrots frozen in October Onions Stored Chestnuts....collected from the woods Sprouts picked today Garlic stored Chutney for tea We just had to buy the Turkey......Its great that most of the most inportant meal of the year will be home grown. It is a great present to the family that we grew it and now we are eating it. We went out today and gave bags of potatoes and parsnips and onoins to friends and family.
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24-12-2006, 07:39 PM
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| Didn't get a lottie til Sept, so not much GYO, but we have got parsnips for tomorrow, which I grew in the front garden, and some tiny red cabbage which were grown in the herbaceous border in the back garden. |
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26-12-2006, 10:07 PM
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| Nothing home grown this year except herbs out of the garden to stuff in the turkey cavity, My ambition for next year is to have completely home grown dinner, including the meat (because we are getting chooks in the spring and will have the occasional one for meat now and then even though we mostly want them for eggs.) |
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28-12-2006, 09:58 PM
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| Had some leeks from the lottie, and home made wine. Will try to do better next year
__________________ Regards, Jane What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? The creative adult is the child who has survived. Ursula LeGuin http://www.etribes.com/madderbat |
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28-12-2006, 10:49 PM
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| kirsty good luck! i was vegi for 12 years OH was vegi for 3. we decided we wanted to eat ethical meat, grew our own, ouch, it hurts, we deicided one person has to do the caring one the killing, although you know its going to happpen, its still very hard. good luck tho, and remember their short lives are still so much better than on an industrial farm.
__________________ Yo an' Bob Walk lightly on the earth take only what you need give all you can and your produce will be bountifull |
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