Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

ArbitraryRandom said:

twopenny said:

Onl once did I successfully grow sprouts and they were truely wonderful. No relation to the supermarket stuff.

I'm not disputing home grown are better, but someone was telling me that all sprouts are a nicer now - something about different varieties that have been cultivated to be sweeter and less 'sprouty'? 

I've a bag in the freezer that I bought and promptly forgot about this last year, so if anyone has any out of season recipe suggestions then I'm all ears  

I heard that, turned out Iceland hadn't , gawd they took a lot of courage and my stinginess for me to finish that frozen bag, I need a puke emoji here!. I think next lot will have to be very posh & expensive ones, form Marks or somewhere like that.

On a far brighter note, Helen Blackberry has been planted into her forever home, hoping to train her [Only Her due to name] along the same canes as the espalier pear, but now of course the Lamont grape which has sulked for years is now romping away on the same canes, going to be a right mess if I'm not careful

No prizes for guessing what's for pud, with Greek yoghurt & manuka honey drizzle . They look far too good to eat, beats Iceland sprouts

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Farway

ArbitraryRandom said:

twopenny said:

Onl once did I successfully grow sprouts and they were truely wonderful. No relation to the supermarket stuff.

I'm not disputing home grown are better, but someone was telling me that all sprouts are a nicer now - something about different varieties that have been cultivated to be sweeter and less 'sprouty'? 

I've a bag in the freezer that I bought and promptly forgot about this last year, so if anyone has any out of season recipe suggestions then I'm all ears  

I heard if you stir olive oil into them, they slide off the plate into the bin much easier

Dustyevsky

twopenny said:

Re the buyer of the bungalow with the biggest garden and wobbly drive is a lady with a zimmer frame.
That does make every neighbour but one disabled and do nothing. Lovely though they are and they are excellent neighbourhood watch I could really do with someone getting out and doing stuff.

You can have some of mine, especially the one who 'got out' and dropped us. in all this hassle with the council. I'm now being asked for a Hedgerow Survey, which is coming, but it won't be written-up and ready in time. I'm knocking out one of my own, but I doubt if it'll be accepted, even though it will be accurate and there are no endangered species involved. Oh well, they can contrast and compare!

In other news, all my toms are potted up in the polytunnel, which has no deep beds yet. It isn't getting finished because I'm too busy doing paperwork and compensating for the absent ride-on. On the positive side, Mrs Dusty has made great inroads with work she was forced to abandon last autumn, so that's a bonus.

OT. Rain has definitely stopped now, but there have been some sharp showers and thunderstorms may still come out of nowhere for the next day or two. In other words, they aren't sure what's going on.

-taff

Try Jamie Olivers meaty sprouts, they really are good, or shred them, fry with bacon and chestnuts, or shred saute a bit, ,and pour a nice cheese sauce over them. Can't go wrong with a cheese sauce on pretty much anything...

ArbitraryRandom

-taff said:

Try Jamie Olivers meaty sprouts, they really are good, or shred them, fry with bacon and chestnuts, or shred saute a bit, ,and pour a nice cheese sauce over them. Can't go wrong with a cheese sauce on pretty much anything...

Yes - one pack of bacon and 200g of cheese per 3 sprouts sounds about right

twopenny

I like sprouts

-taff

me too. But not mushy ones...

Dustyevsky

Away with sprouts! We had Jamie Oliver puff pastry pizza tonight, to which we added sweet potato wedges and a salad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlEktiez-iE

I was halfway through before I realised, “Hey, wait, this is vegetarian!”

Missed sunset on the longest day of the year, too. Never mind, here's another specimen from the National Collection of Water Iris to make up for it:

YoungBlueEyes

Farway said:

ArbitraryRandom said:

I've a bag in the freezer that I bought and promptly forgot about this last year, so if anyone has any out of season recipe suggestions then I'm all ears  

I heard if you stir olive oil into them, they slide off the plate into the bin much easier

Christ sake, that's twice now you swine! Strike three and I'm billing you for a new laptop

I only have 1 sprout recipe cos it's bladdy lovely. Parboil your sprouts til they're about 1/2 cooked, while frying off some snipped-up wee bits of smoked bacon in a big frying pan. Drain sprouts. Sling them in with the bacon 'til they're cooked. Yum Unless you're a vegetablist... then you'll have to try something like the chestnut nonsense that himself keeps trying to foist on me.

If you want new neighbours 2p maybe you need to force the issue - pick a few off? Be careful what you wish for though. I'm pure desperate for better neighbours, well any that aren't goddamn animals really, but all their viewers have either had multiple small children and/or are single-handedly keeping piercing+tattoo parlours in business  

Dusty surely they'll hang on for your hedgerow survey to come back if it's them that's asked for it? As long as they know it's on the way...? 

Warm and sunny here. Gardening done for today, such as it was. Sadly my strawbs aren't as healthy and copious as Farway's. They're only diddy wee things and something is very carefully nibbling them already! I've got a handful of toms coming though, on one plant. If I'd labelled them I'd know if they are a Lidl jobber or a Marks one C'est la vie.

Farway

Another warm day ahead so thought I'd crack on before it got too hot in the conservatory, the white fly have started their annual hols on my tomato leaves, rummaged for last year's expensive but works spray and have given them all a squirt, I'll repeat this weekend. It did keep the blighters at bay last year

Good to hear Mrs Dusty is now able to get on with her "jobs" and long may it continue

If I get a chance today I hope to tie in the Merton blackberry, with the rain the ground is now soft enough to poke support canes in.

My Peace rose has a bud at last, I did read that cheaper roses tend to be the ones not considered good enough for proper, expensive, garden centres, a bit like the wonky veg. I guess my cheap Peace would come into this category. Fingers crossed it is Peace and not another mislabel

Photo shoot for today will be Regale lily, now opened and looking great.

Plus I have a self seeded castor oil plant [ricinus] coming up at the front, from last year's plants, must be warm out there. Of course, it is in the "wrong" spot, but I'm going to leave it alone and enjoy it