terryd 8,412 Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Ah yes they planted maze there last year but I didn't see the field after the initial planting. Yacon is a veg but can be used as fruit also apparently Yacon is a tuber grown in South America. Its Andean name is ‘ground apple’ and it has a pear/melon flavour. It is best eaten raw, peeled and sliced or in a fruit salad. It is very crunchy and goes well with pineapple. It’s a real thirst quencher. It can be cooked and it will keep its crunch, stir fried is absolutely delicious and seems to be best. The plant is grown from tips and can reach 1.5m. It will produce the tubers towards the autumn when the yellow flowers appear. The frost will kill off the top. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
terryd 8,412 Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 1st earlies peeping out earthed them back up in case parsnips in to day 3 seeds per station they all came up last year then just nipped out the weakest seem to work well. Used the same variety too gladiator purple sprouting is very nice this year nice tidy shoots 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
whatdog72 287 Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 Terry I've just got some of them gladiator parsnips as I've been told there tasty, I've also got myself some sweet candle carrots has anyone on here grown them I've raised one of my beds by another scaffold board and topped it up with sharp sand, compost and vermiculite so I can grow some descent sized parsnips and carrots, it's the bed with the micro mesh on I have also built my pea trellis up high as I've just sown some aldermans peas, been told there heavy croppers, anyone tried these 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
terryd 8,412 Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 yep the gladiator parsnips are very nice I have not tried the carrots or peas you refer too. Are they plastic tubs in your beds ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
whatdog72 287 Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 yep the gladiator parsnips are very nice I have not tried the carrots or peas you refer too. Are they plastic tubs in your beds ?Yes there 90 litres tubs, my pal got them from his work so I have put black poly down in the bed and sat the tubs onI'm going to try different varieties of potatoes in the top row and if the yields are ok I will most likely stick with it as it will save me moving my crops about Quote Link to post Share on other sites
terryd 8,412 Posted April 25, 2015 Report Share Posted April 25, 2015 Just a couple of small cauli today hopefully get a bigger one off these getting to grips with the weed frabic Poxy mice have cleaned out the broad beans I sowed a few weeks ago going to have to sort them out. Will give the next batch the paraffin treatment. Just seems to be any peas or beans sown with in a certain range of the sheds or compost heaps gets nailed. One of the plots has got this going on big humps of sticks and leafs and various other bit and bobs grass cuttings etc. Along the lines of what some one mentioned previously I think Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnipper 6,467 Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 We've got loads of these knocking about round work and I think I've finally found a use for them. I'll see how these go for now before I knock any more up. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tiercel 6,986 Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 We've got loads of these knocking about round work and I think I've finally found a use for them. I'll see how these go for now before I knock any more up. Will keep the slugs off the strawberries thats for sure. TC 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnipper 6,467 Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 With these voracious little brats of mine prowling around the slugs won't get a chance? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
terryd 8,412 Posted April 27, 2015 Report Share Posted April 27, 2015 dam frost this morning will have caught me new spuds new I should earthed up yesterday when I was there another lesson learnt Quote Link to post Share on other sites
terryd 8,412 Posted April 29, 2015 Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 Frost damage wasn't too bad with the spuds and they are earthed back up now. Few more cauli last night they come good just wish I had made a note of the variety are you going to rig up some sort of snazzy watering system for the strawberries gnipper or let them get on with it 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnipper 6,467 Posted April 29, 2015 Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 I might rig up drip irrigation for everything this year, I've got all the drippers etc at work I can use but I'd have to put a tank up somewhere safe from the kids. It's not the end of the world using a watering can. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
darbo 4,774 Posted April 29, 2015 Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 Frost damage wasn't too bad with the spuds and they are earthed back up now. Few more cauli last night they come good just wish I had made a note of the variety are you going to rig up some sort of snazzy watering system for the strawberries gnipper or let them get on with it A couple of crackers there terry well done. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
terryd 8,412 Posted May 2, 2015 Report Share Posted May 2, 2015 Took delivery of my cow manure 20 quid for half a trailer load saves throwing bags of shite in the car though I still do that any way Planted out some ormskirk cabbage and gave the washing lquid a try be interesting to see how that goes. Also using cardboard from work as a weed suppressant. Might help the soil too when it rots down ? and the tidiest allotment award goes too NOt you messy sod I am more of a result man hopefully lol I new that net I found on the beach would be handy strawberries flowering onions are looking better this year but I will be putting slug pellets on this year as they took the lot last year peas laying on the surface thanks to the mice but you can't win them all. Saw a post on facebook which I will try. Throw a few peas down push a bottle over them and let them grow up through the bottle top and away. Just need to save a few bottles 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
forest of dean redneck 11,591 Posted May 2, 2015 Report Share Posted May 2, 2015 Those strawberries look good,don't think I got any flowers on ones in garden yet,lol Potted 21 runner beans that had sprouted, in little greenhouse thing we got white strawberries seeds sown,dahlias and Queensland arrowroot,eat the tubers,all James Wong seeds Some cherry toms and broccoli, Down the allotment I planted about 24 plug plant seedlings of cabbage,cauliflower and Brussels ,and ripped up the nettles and weeds back of 2 beds,so I can grow peas up dividing fence. Hopefully get back Down again next week ,get on top of the weeds. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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