Help MBE grow his dinner 2011

mrbadexample

I'm ridiculously chuffed with my bee log:



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Little_Vics

why do you have a bee log?? Hoping for honey, or just wanting to keep count (snigger snigger)??

mrbadexample

Little_Vics wrote: »

why do you have a bee log?? Hoping for honey, or just wanting to keep count (snigger snigger)??

Yeah, just nice to keep a tally.

I want to give them a nice home nice and close to my vegetable flowers.

mrbadexample

Today's harvest:



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jollyanna

Most impresive MrBE. I always enjoy looking at your pics. Are the smal pink and white globes Turnips or Radish ?
Could you do another pic. with the T.towel the right way up as I can't make out what it says, thank you.

mrbadexample

jollyanna wrote: »

Most impresive MrBE. I always enjoy looking at your pics. Are the smal pink and white globes Turnips or Radish ?
Could you do another pic. with the T.towel the right way up as I can't make out what it says, thank you.

They're baby Arcoat turnips. A colleague at work asked me for some little ones (he's a bit of a Masterchef wannabe). I'd have let them grow bigger if they were for me.

The teatowel reads "Beddgelert", with a precis of the story.

jollyanna

Ahha, thanks MrBE. I thought the towel had a recipe on it which is why I was curious. I will go and look up "Beddgelert" in a min.
I've never tired growing Turnips but suspect it may not yet be too late for this season if I'm quick off the mark.
i'm rather miffed as I've spent weeks cosseting what I thought were my Soya Bean seedlings and they've morphed in to gigantic Nicotiana plants ! Must have come out of my home-made compost bin.

mrbadexample

jollyanna wrote: »

I've never tired growing Turnips but suspect it may not yet be too late for this season if I'm quick off the mark.

Look for something like Purple Top Milan or Arcoat if you want fast-maturing summer turnips. Plenty of time for winter varieties I think.

mrbadexample

Can someone pop round and top & tail this lot for me please?

Fay

What are the red ones?

My harvesting isn't going well at the moment, potatoes are fine, the birds are eating all my blueberries. Other than that nothing else is ready/edible-the mange tout were going great and nearly ready to harvest until last week, something has got into the container and ravaged them! The leaves are nearly all eaten and lots of the pods have holes in them/are damaged The peas and beans seem to be suffering a similar fate.

I pulled a carrot up yesterday as I thought they were ready but despite the tops being huge the carrots are tiny, bolted perhaps?

I have tomatoes forming and lots of chillis and a few peppers, but none are ready yet.

So all in all, not great