Comments on: What to Do With a Glut of Veg from Your Kitchen Garden http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-to-do-with-a-glut-of-veg-from-your-kitchen-garden A Site About Everything and Nothing Wed, 23 May 2012 00:54:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on What to Do With a Glut of Veg from Your Kitchen Garden by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-to-do-with-a-glut-of-veg-from-your-kitchen-garden#comment-9381 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:21:40 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-to-do-with-a-glut-of-veg-from-your-kitchen-garden#comment-9381 Juli, thanks for that, I may give them a go. I didn't this year as I don't really eat them anymore (white carb') I wanted to grow sweet potatoes but it seems like a non-starter. I find a huge difference in taste in my courgettes and leeks - very startling Cheers Rod Juli,
thanks for that, I may give them a go. I didn’t this year as I don’t really eat them anymore (white carb’)
I wanted to grow sweet potatoes but it seems like a non-starter.
I find a huge difference in taste in my courgettes and leeks - very startling
Cheers
Rod

]]> Comment on What to Do With a Glut of Veg from Your Kitchen Garden by: juli http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-to-do-with-a-glut-of-veg-from-your-kitchen-garden#comment-9378 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:37:42 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-to-do-with-a-glut-of-veg-from-your-kitchen-garden#comment-9378 Definitely a difference in the taste from shop bought potatoes - indeed shop bought potatoes now taste, in comparison, well, tasteless! The home grown potatoes have a much richer, earthy flavour, and yes, before anyone asks, that's after the mud was washed off them. Definitely a difference in the taste from shop bought potatoes - indeed shop bought potatoes now taste, in comparison, well, tasteless! The home grown potatoes have a much richer, earthy flavour, and yes, before anyone asks, that’s after the mud was washed off them.

]]> Comment on What to Do With a Glut of Veg from Your Kitchen Garden by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-to-do-with-a-glut-of-veg-from-your-kitchen-garden#comment-9372 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:20:07 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-to-do-with-a-glut-of-veg-from-your-kitchen-garden#comment-9372 Juli, I have grown a really large variety of stuff this year - not because of expertise etc simply because I want to give everything a go - see what happens. This is the first chard I've grown and it was indeed easy enough to grow - I suspect the main problem would be slugs and snails but I've put in the hard yards on that front so seem to have won through. Well played on the potatoes, one thing I've never grown at all - did you notice much difference in the taste from shop bought ? Cheers Rod Juli,
I have grown a really large variety of stuff this year - not because of expertise etc simply because I want to give everything a go - see what happens.
This is the first chard I’ve grown and it was indeed easy enough to grow - I suspect the main problem would be slugs and snails but I’ve put in the hard yards on that front so seem to have won through.

Well played on the potatoes, one thing I’ve never grown at all - did you notice much difference in the taste from shop bought ?
Cheers
Rod

]]> Comment on What to Do With a Glut of Veg from Your Kitchen Garden by: juli http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-to-do-with-a-glut-of-veg-from-your-kitchen-garden#comment-9370 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:15:28 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-to-do-with-a-glut-of-veg-from-your-kitchen-garden#comment-9370 Looks good! Wish I'd had the foresight to plant more variety like that. I stuck with the boring staple garden delights this year, and too many of each really - managed to get a full budweiser box of potatoes (nearest box to hand when I started pulling them up!) although I was really intirgued by the fact that I planted white potatoes (ends of potatoes I'd bought that had produced shoots) and a lot of the potatoes I dug up were red! How easy was the chard to grow? I love the stuff but am a bit of a wimp when it comes to these things (and lazy) - I tend to grow stuff that will look after itself. Looks good! Wish I’d had the foresight to plant more variety like that. I stuck with the boring staple garden delights this year, and too many of each really - managed to get a full budweiser box of potatoes (nearest box to hand when I started pulling them up!) although I was really intirgued by the fact that I planted white potatoes (ends of potatoes I’d bought that had produced shoots) and a lot of the potatoes I dug up were red!
How easy was the chard to grow? I love the stuff but am a bit of a wimp when it comes to these things (and lazy) - I tend to grow stuff that will look after itself.

]]> Comment on What to Do With a Glut of Veg from Your Kitchen Garden by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-to-do-with-a-glut-of-veg-from-your-kitchen-garden#comment-9354 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:04:13 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-to-do-with-a-glut-of-veg-from-your-kitchen-garden#comment-9354 LB If I hadn't been so hungry I'd have entered it for a prize :) I've previous years efforts at slug control to thank for it even surviving Cheers Rod LB
If I hadn’t been so hungry I’d have entered it for a prize :)
I’ve previous years efforts at slug control to thank for it even surviving
Cheers
Rod

]]> Comment on What to Do With a Glut of Veg from Your Kitchen Garden by: Little Brother http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-to-do-with-a-glut-of-veg-from-your-kitchen-garden#comment-9352 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:17:42 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-to-do-with-a-glut-of-veg-from-your-kitchen-garden#comment-9352 Rod, What a great selection! The chard looks sublime, might have to 'borrow' some. Don't worry, it grows back! Well grown sir :) LB Rod,
What a great selection! The chard looks sublime, might have to ‘borrow’ some. Don’t worry, it grows back!
Well grown sir :)

LB

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