Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

silvercar

Enough talk of chocolate.

Anyone watch the BBC programme on the school lottery last night? Having been through most of what they talked about I thought it was a good, balanced programme.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/tqrt7/

misskool

lemonjelly wrote: »

Diabetic chocolate is (IIRC) made to the same recipe as dog chocolates.

So if you have a diabetic relative, guess the easy way to be mse when buying them a gift...:D

Is the consensus here that tomato plants struck by blight are unsalvageable, & I'd be best picking off all the fruit now & hoping for the best?:(

Also, is there anything I can to to try to prevent it occurring next year? or is it a case of hoping for the best?:(

Thanks all. & thanks for the recipes from me too to sjay & misskool!:)

Diabetic chocolate is sweetened with things like xylitol, long chain molecules which causes digestive "issues".

For my plants, I've picked off all the obvious ones, tried to ripen some indoors and defoliaged the ones outdoors in the hopes they will ripen before the blight gets to them. It's about picking them off before the spores spread. Blight patrol is happening regularly now. But the weather is not helping, 2 or 3 hot days and it would be ok but high humidity and temperatures help them grow.

I've gotten it the last 2 years and it's safer to grow them under glass (undercover) so the spores aren't flying around sticking onto them.

treliac

lemonjelly wrote: »

Diabetic chocolate is (IIRC) made to the same recipe as dog chocolates.

misskool wrote: »

Diabetic chocolate is sweetened with things like xylitol, long chain molecules which causes digestive "issues".

Eeek!! What sort of "issues" would these be, if I may dare ask?

treliac

nellyII wrote: »

Issues that need tissues

I can think of a few of those.

PasturesNew

I wrote something appalling, skimped, didn't add photos ... published in a hurry as I was in a rush and had to be elsewhere ... and it won $50!!

I can't believe it. I can't even link you to my writing as I'm so ashamed as it's really poor quality/effort!

tomterm8

lemonjelly wrote: »

Is the consensus here that tomato plants struck by blight are unsalvageable, & I'd be best picking off all the fruit now & hoping for the best?:(

Well, you can sometimes get something out of them, if you remove the bits with obvious blight, but really my approach is to harvest and burn the plant immediatly you see any, because the spores it produces may end up in the ground, and then you can have a permanent blight problem. This is especially true with potatoes, since the blight lives in the tubers.

Blight spores can travel 40 miles, and once its in your area, there's not a lot that you can do.

lemonjelly

tomterm8 wrote: »

Well, you can sometimes get something out of them, if you remove the bits with obvious blight, but really my approach is to harvest and burn the plant immediatly you see any, because the spores it produces may end up in the ground, and then you can have a permanent blight problem. This is especially true with potatoes, since the blight lives in the tubers.

Blight spores can travel 40 miles, and once its in your area, there's not a lot that you can do.

Thanks tomterm8.

I've got my plants in 3 parts of the garden. 1 set don't look to be affected. I'm having to do a lot of additional hours at the mo (seasonal) & am not getting home til after dark. That said, friday I'll be rushing back to do just the above.

Should I give the pots etc a scrub?

Do I put the green toms in a box with a lid & a banana in?:o

Cherindi

Can someone bring me up to date with the chutney recipe as I have just joined forum and I Lurve chutneys, wines, jams/jellys etc. I have a fantastic Elder tree on my newly acquired allotment and could do with some recipes for all of the above if they exist...can anyone help me as I don't like to waste the elderberries...? Thanks guys Cherindi
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LydiaJ

Cherindi wrote: »

Can someone bring me up to date with the chutney recipe as I have just joined forum and I Lurve chutneys, wines, jams/jellys etc. I have a fantastic Elder tree on my newly acquired allotment and could do with some recipes for all of the above if they exist...can anyone help me as I don't like to waste the elderberries...? Thanks guys Cherindi
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Hi Cherindi and welcome. I'm not a chutney maker so can't help you, I'm afraid. Somebody more domesticated than me may be along in a while with something useful.

You may get more and faster responses to this sort of question on the "Old style moneysaving" board, but we do get some of that kind of thing here on the "nice people" thread on this board. :beer:

lemonjelly

Well I've ripped up two thirds of my tomato crop. I'm pretty gutted, especially as I had some corking plants - 1 was significantly bigger than I am. Still, I'll be hoping my sprouts make up for it!

Meanwhile, I'm finding that I'm spending pretty much all my time either working (currently having to do 9-12 hours a day weekdays, plus bits at weekends) or recovering from working. Pretty tired...

I've finished Gorky Park, so I've started reading this

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nelson-Napoleon-Long-Haul-Trafalgar/dp/075531042X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1284312769&sr=8-1

Very detailed in some respects. Builds up a lot of background & contemporary info, without excessively long (and therefore boring) chapters.