Harvested the last butternut squash yesterday,it’s on the windowsill to ripen,this is quite big for something grown by me
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Just raspberries and Toms today, Toms have been roasted in the oven then frozen.
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Originally posted by Bonjour View PostGood luck with your harvest, you may be pleasantly surprised too!
I got 9.8kg between the two of them.
I got some real whoppers, too. One tuber was over 1kg all by itself, and another was over a foot long.
They were grown outside through black plastic, just as the same as the other six, and in the same soil, too (if anything, the soil was worse). The only difference was that these two had quite a bit more space (the others were grown quite close to the squashes, which I think limited them in the end). I think I shall have to give all of them more space next year, and I might get these sorts of yields from all of the plants.
Digging them out was a real struggle, though. I have sticky clay soil, so I couldn't really dig them out normally, as they kept snapping (they are very brittle). Instead I loosened the soil with the spade then carefully excavated each tuber with my fingers. Took an hour and a half to excavate both plants.
Some went 10 inches or more down into the sticky yellow subsoil, and others were on great long roots almost 2 feet from the main plant. It took a lot of digging around to find them all.
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French beans. Probably the last decent crop.
A few more beans for drying.
Dug up three more sweet potato plants. 5.9kg between the three of them.
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A handful of raspberries, then some parsnips, carrots, runner beans, Toms plus the first of this seasons JA’s.
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A beetroot
Three figs
Started digging my sweet potatoes. Dug up three plants so far, and got 5.5kg between them.
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Yesterday kale, carrots and raspberries.
today's will be mixed lettuce, land cress, spring onions and toms.
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Some apples.
A load of tenderstem broccoli
Kale
A few peppers
5 semi-ripe tomatoes which I must have missed before (I pulled up and composted my outdoor tomato plants today)
Also collected a big bag of chestnuts from nearby.Last edited by ameno; 23-10-2020, 03:31 AM.
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Picked the last of my tomatoes, discovered a little cucumber, which was nice.
I still have some Sweet Peppers ripening and my first single Cayenne has finally ripened!
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2 sweet peppers, one tiny aubergine, a couple of San Marzano toms - added to some stored onion and garlic and a pasta sauce was forthcoming
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