Biggest and best - competition thread.

mrbadexample

djohn2002uk wrote: »

These are "Long as Your Arm" :T

Ha ha! Only little 'uns really then!

But please can you send me a bean or two to try next year?

djohn2002uk

Now it's too big. :eek: Anyway this is how Dobies used to picture them in their seed catalogue years ago. This one was taken last year and this bean was 22.5 inches long.

mrbadexample: It's a bad year for runners this year but providing I get enough for next year, I'll happily send you half a dozen but it wont be untill October time that I take beans off to save as seed.
My daughter got mine for me a couple of years ago from a retired doctor in Liverpool. I'll PM you his website address. I don't want it published in case everybody starts asking him for beans.

freezspirit

I might be mistaken but I think there's a chinese variety of climbing bean that grows to 3ft/1yard.

mrbadexample

djohn2002uk wrote: »

My daughter got mine for me a couple of years ago from a retired doctor in Liverpool. I'll PM you his website address. I don't want it published in case everybody starts asking him for beans.

That's a biggun!

I think it might have been this website where I read about the LAYA beans in the first place.

rapido

djohn2002uk wrote: »

Now it's too big. :eek: Anyway this is how Dobies used to picture them in their seed catalogue years ago. This one was taken last year and this bean was 22.5 inches long.

At least you have a positive outdoor hobby, in deep contrast to abusing other members of the forum.

-rapido

frazzbo

I harvested an enormous courgette last night - I'll add a photo later. It was too big for the kitchen scales so we put it on the bathroom scales and it showed 2kg !!! :eek:
I have another two big ones (not quite so big) still out there but I need to get this one used up first - going to try courgette muffins tonight!

Edit: am slightly disappointed having read back the thread a bit that I've been beaten by the one at 3.3kg - oh well, maybe I'll just have to keep my other two big ones growing!

Primrose

Courgette rissoles are another good way of using up jumbo courgettes. My OH made some really delicious courgette rissoles the other evening from one jumbo specimen which had been lurking hidden under a big leaf. If anybody's interested in the recipe I'll try and dig it out.

foreign_correspondent

can I submit my big aubergine please? the photo doesnt quite do it justice - it was massive!

foreign_correspondent

these are not huge, but they are quite pretty - all ripe, just different coloured varieties: (sorry, I have resized this pic several times and it still keeps reappearing as big!!!)

djohn2002uk

Here is my entry for the tallest row of peas. They are on the right of the Runner Beans and almost as tall. The bean canes are 8ft with 7ft out of the ground and the tallest peas are about 6" below the top. The netting is to stop the sparrows from pecking the blossom off the beans.