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    Tips for filling the hunger gap!

    As the GYO edit team get stuck into writing the May issue we are reminded of all the glorious crops that are coming along well this month but aren't quite ready to harvest which can leave some of us gyo-ers with rumbling stomachs! On that note we were wondering what your tried and tested methods are for filling the great 'hunger gap' and what plans you have made this year to ensure that you're not without homegrown goodies in May?



    Please note your comments may be edited and published in the May issue of Grow Your Own
    How to avoid the hunger gap during May
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    My Cayenne Apache's have not stopped growing, they have been constant! So I am still with nice fresh chilli's but other than that, Its a game of watching the pretty plants grow and looking forward to the prizes of my efforts in the months to come!

    Darren.
    Chilli Grower
    mmmmmm Spicy Chilli.....
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    • #3
      I'm glad I planted Tundra cabbage, Red Russian Kale and leeks on the plot

      and in the garden - Tokyo bunching onions have come through the snow and Ice quite happily for my stirfries

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      • #4
        I'm still harvesting leeks, winter cabbage and kale and chard. The first of my spring greens will be ready in two or three weeks.
        History teaches us that history teaches us nothing. - Hegel

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        • #5
          We freeze and jar a lot of our crops during the summer glut- we've got loads left so I never feel there is a hunger gap!
          We too are still harvesting sprouts, savoy cabbage and leeks, and our stored potatoes will last another couple of weeks.
          We even have one more months supply of stored apples!
          so....what hunger gap!????
          "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

          Location....Normandy France

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          • #6
            I'm actually looking forward to there being less stuff to harvest as I have a tonne of stored stuff which needs eating up before then next season springs into action. Having said that the spring cabbages and brocolli in the polytunnel are very advanced (always plant some in and some out to extend the season) and the PSB won't be that long now!

            Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

            Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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            • #7
              I've still got leeks, savoy cabbages and celeriac to harvest. I had my first pick off one of the PSB last week and the spring cabbage is waiting in the wings.
              Just had to start buying potatoes but still have a huge squash stored and produce in the freezer so fingers crossed there'll be no real hungry gap here.
              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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              • #8
                Milky Way..............the sweet you CAN eat between meals!
                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)

                Diversify & prosper


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                • #9
                  Blimey Snadge that is impressive .......any spare seeds on offer ?
                  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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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by binley100 View Post
                    Blimey Snadge that is impressive .......any spare seeds on offer ?
                    I'm over the Moon cos I'm Saturn a galaxy of em...................
                    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)

                    Diversify & prosper


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                    • #11
                      well hope you pick the right moon phase for sowing them then ........
                      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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                      • #12
                        We had to defrost the chest freezer last week and I was amazed at the amount of last year's produce that was left in there. Probably enough assorted fruit and veg to last a month without buying anything but we had to give lots of it away as the back up freezer is only small.

                        On the plot I still have plenty of leeks plus some kale and chard and in the greenhouse there's lettuce and spring onions. Obviously there's a lot less fresh during the hungry gap but we are never without home-grown food.

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                        • #13
                          Let me see:
                          broadies, peas, tomato passata, pesto - all in the freezer
                          Chillis, courgettes, relishes, chutneys, jams all in jars or bottled of some sort
                          Dried beans all in a box in the car [yes, I need to put them into jars and bring them in] - 2.5kg of them [I halved them with the school]
                          And
                          Carrots, parsnips, root parsley, leeks [some have strangely enough not been got by leaf miner - yay], beetroot and plenty of it, claytonia, winter lettuce, spring onions, cabbages, kohl rabi, kale, swiss chard, sprouting broccoli, all at the plot...I'm sure there is more but that's what I spotted at the weekend.
                          And
                          still got 1/4 of a sack of spuds and one squash indoors.
                          Last edited by zazen999; 21-02-2012, 09:18 PM.

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                          • #14
                            Yep, my freezer has the hungry gap sorted. We're still eating last summer's tomatoes and courgettes, French beans and assorted soups, curries & stews.
                            All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                            • #15
                              In the freezer runner beans, last years tomato puree, calabrese and a little cauliflower.

                              Outside a few leaks, PSB and spring cabbage also used as spring greens. Last years late planted spring onions will be ready in a couple of weeks.

                              New potaoes Swift are in their buckets in the green house should be ready early May.

                              Going in this weekend to be ready for May, lettuce Lollo Rossa, Tom Thumb and Salad Bowl. Radish French Breakfast and with a bit of luck maybe, just maybe a few toms middle to late May.

                              Colin
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                              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.

                              Aesop 620BC-560BC

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