Biggest and best - competition thread.

mrbadexample

foreign_correspondent wrote: »

can I submit my big aubergine please?

Yes you may. But I like to know a weight please, if you haven't munched it yet.

mrbadexample

foreign_correspondent wrote: »

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!!!)

I'd like to know what sort the small brown ones are, and I think I'll have that nice stripey one at the back in my sandwiches tomorrow please.

mrbadexample

djohn2002uk wrote: »

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.

You're not going to go short of peas or beans this year, are you? :T

wssla00

mrbadexample wrote: »

I'd like to know what sort the small brown ones are, and I think I'll have that nice stripey one at the back in my sandwiches tomorrow please.

They look like black cherry to me.... mine aren't ripe yet

foreign_correspondent

yeah, they are black cherry - left to right in that photo, the varieties are: black cherry, tigerella, thai pink egg, gardener's delight, green zebra, green grape, ghost and golden gem.

Primrose

Yes, the small brownish ones are Black Cherry. I've been growing a few of them myself for the first time this year. I was hoping that they might have had the same slightly smokey flavour that the bigger Black Russian had which I grew last year but unfortunately they don't, so comparing them with Gardeners Delight for flavour, with all other qualities being about equal, I think I'll stick to GD next year.

lisa26_2

WHat variety are the super tall peas? I'd love to grow some of those next year!!

RebekahR

I have just been up the veggie patch and picked some spinage for tea! It's huuuuuuuuuuuuuge ...



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Can tell I not been up since last weekend!

djohn2002uk

lisa26 wrote: »

WHat variety are the super tall peas? I'd love to grow some of those next year!!

They are Alderman.

mrbadexample

RebekahR wrote: »

I have just been up the veggie patch and picked some spinage for tea! It's huuuuuuuuuuuuuge ...

Is that big for spinach? I've never grown any so don't know what it's meant to be like.