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  • Achoca - what do you do with yours?

    So, the Achocha is romping all over the place and taking over the greenhouse worse tgan it was a couple of weeks ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ8DCyJWzBo&t=5s

    There's only 2 little scrawney plants there and they are giving loads of fruit
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    As far as cooking I've had the smaller, younger ones raw and they have a slight cucumber taste but for some reason I cant find all of them when they are small and the larger mature pods are a bit tough when raw. I have, however, tried them cooked ( deseeded them and sliced & fried them and also deseeded them and stuffed them with various fillings) and this is when the flavour turns to more like a green pepper, although the pods themselves soften up.

    As I've just brought back another box load of pods (to go with half a box I haven't eaten from the other day) I was wondering how everyone else cooks theirs.

    I do plan on zapping a few through the juicer but wondering what else I can do with them.

    Thinking about planting 20 of them next year to see how they do outside. Does anyone think that this might be a bad idea?

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    I've only ever grown mine outside - but I probably getting a bit more sun than you? But even so 2 plants are more than enough go us! When my boys are around I can get through a fair few plants, but they aren't about so much these days and I struggle with what to do with them - they are pretty prolific. I only ever use raw or sliced finely in stir fries. I've never juiced them. I think 20 plants would be nuts
    Last edited by Scarlet; 14-09-2019, 09:53 PM.

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      You didn't notice that did you?

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        Originally posted by Scarlet View Post
        You didn't notice that did you?
        Didn't notice what?

        New all singing all dancing blog - Jasons Jungle

        �I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb."
        ― Thomas A. Edison

        �Negative results are just what I want. They�re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don�t.�
        ― Thomas A. Edison

        - I must be a Nutter,VC says so -

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