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    How do you know you have a glut?

    Is it when the family groan - "do we have to have beans AGAIN!" or is it when the freezer is full? Perhaps it's when friends and neighbours hurry in the opposite direction when they see you with a suspiciously bean shaped bag? Maybe when even the compost bin is fed up with the tough ones you missed picking?
    No, I think it's when you start accosting complete strangers in the street with a manic look in your eye, "Do you like runner beans? Would you like some, please, please take some! Please, don't go away, I need to give you some beans. Please..............."
    I even thought about leaving some on each of the doorsteps I pass on the way back from the lottie!
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    When you run out of freezer bags, bowls to put tomatoes in, worktop space - everything is covered. When the potato sacks are storing in your built in wardrobe alongside your marrows and onions. Your entire top shelf in your American style fridge freezer is stacked with jam, whilst shelf two is loaded with chutney nestling amongst the cheese.
    Yes we've passed to family and neighbours. Now donations to the village show..?
    Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

    Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw

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    • #3
      By the way I'm sick of turnips now and fed up with boiling beets and pickling. Enough with the eau de vinegar, pink fingers too!
      Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

      Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw

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      • #4
        A glut for us is when we have more than the family (of 2) can eat and/or process and we have to give to neighbours etc.

        A tragedy is when no-one wants them and they have to be binned!

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        • #5
          Wash your mouth out  ...binned?!
          Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

          Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw

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          • #6
            Glut? Er no that will be me last year with the tomatoes. Pasata, dried, frozen, chutney, (that I still have jars of) rellies avoiding me for fear of "gifts"
            WPC F Hobbit, Shire police

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            • #7
              when all the family have had courgettes, and you've cooked them in everyway known to womankind, there is a shelful in the fridge, and you still have more growing

              Still I'd be moaning if there were none

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              • #8
                am eyeing up my apple tree thinking what the bladdy 'ell am I going to do with all those .......
                S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
                a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

                You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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                • #9
                  When other people, like me I might add, are jealous of you and your success
                  Last edited by Florence Fennel; 24-08-2011, 07:13 PM.
                  Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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                  • #10
                    a glut is not picking/lifting as your mega freezer wont shut unless you sit on the lid.....

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by binley100 View Post
                      am eyeing up my apple tree thinking what the bladdy 'ell am I going to do with all those .......
                      Ciderrrrrrrr
                      Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

                      Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw

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                      • #12
                        My mum picked 7lbs of beans and another 8 courgettes today from the lottie! Oooooh errrrrr I;ve never had a glut before! But I do have a chest freezer so I can store it ! YAY Courgette muffins this week I think!
                        http://meandtwoveg.blogspot.com

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by VirginVegGrower View Post
                          Wash your mouth out  ...binned?!
                          Twice. Once with overgrown and unusable runners after a holiday (this year) and ditto with an overgrown courgette that no-one wanted and I just couldn't face eating (that was last year)

                          Otherwise I'm very good... promise!

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                          • #14
                            When SWMBO returns from shopping and says "Woo look beans, again!" quickly followed by "And the tomato fairy's been too."


                            Colin
                            Potty by name Potty by nature.

                            By appointment of VeggieChicken Member of the Nutters club.


                            We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by VirginVegGrower View Post
                              Ciderrrrrrrr
                              anyone got a press?
                              S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
                              a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

                              You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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