Help me choose please
Posted by: Small chilli - 10-03-2024, 10:40 AM - Replies (17)

Ok so I want to grow 1 cherry, 1 standard, 1 beef. I think I’m going with rambling red stripe for cherry, Black Russian for beef. Happy to be guided into other directions. I need help choosing a standard/ medium size tom please. Colour / shape not important. Size and good producer is important as only growing one of each. 
This is my list of tomato seeds I have . What do you think?

Tomato cuor di bue (beef steak ).
1 Tomato German red strawberry  (beef steak )
 1 Tomato Black Russian 
1 Tomato rosella .
1 Tomato matts hornet 
1 Tomato mat-su express
1 Tomato EM champion 
Tomato  northern lights
Tomato oleron yellow.
1 tomato orange banana 
1 tomato orange jazz
1 tomato Oregon spring
1 tomato black icicle 
1 tomato indigo pear drops
1 tomato sweet casaday (small plum)
1 tomato rambling red stripe
1 tomato genuwine
1 tomato auntie madge’s
1 tomato sgt pepper’s
1 tomato Spanish big globe
1 tomato steak sandwich 
1 tomato mountain princess 
1 tomato reinhard’s purple sugar 
1 tomato girl girl weird thing
1 tomato old German 
1 tomato ananas noir (beef steak)
1 tomato juaune flamme (golf ball apricot)
1 tomato piglet Willie (dark red cherry)
1 tomato alfresco (midi-plum red)
1 tomato red zebra (golf ball size)
1 tomato derby striped (medium size)

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  Carnivore bread
Posted by: Vinny - 08-03-2024, 06:23 PM - Replies (4)

I have adopted a mostly carnivore lifestyle but I do miss some aspects of the way I used to eat. I don't use any seed oils and don't eat any food made from grains.

I think evryone likes a burger with cheese and gerkins now and again but even though I eat a lot of 'smashburgers' comprised of beef mince with nothing added I do miss having them in a bread bun and eaten in the hand rather than with a knife and fork? To this end I have experimented with making a carnivore bread bun alternative?
I bought pig skin from Morrisons very cheaply, cut it up into small pieces and cooked it in the air fryer. It was still a bit hard for the teeth so I blitzed it in a mixer and made pork Panko from it. This would be my carnivore flour substitute.
I mixed in a couple of eggs and half a tub of full fat soft cheese. I poured the mixture into a silicone insert for the air frye rand cooked 10 minutes then turned it overand cooked for another 5 minutes.
The result is shown below where I cut a small bit off to taste it. It was like a 'stodgy' breadbut was ok. I will cut it in half and use it as a bread bun substitute with a burger. In future I will use a ramekin which should make it more of  a 'proper' burger size.

An experiment which I am very pleased with. Cool



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  Artisan Pink Bumblebee
Posted by: JJB - 08-03-2024, 01:56 PM - Replies (3)

I'm growing APB for the first time. Does the panel  (probably  Veggie or TMTT) think they are a hybrid or open pollinated? Should I save seed if, they're any good, for swapping?

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  2024 Tomato Grow List
Posted by: JJB - 04-03-2024, 05:55 PM - Replies (23)

So far my list is:
Some have been sown, others are waiting in the wings.

Greenhouse

Summer Frolic - red big Cherry. New.
Bloody Butcher - early small salad. Didn't have much success last year, giving it another go.
Honeycomb - orange/yellow cherry. Sweet. May even replace Sungold in future years
Sungold - everyone knows this one
Jaune Flamme - large cherry, dark orange. New. I might find it too thick skinned for P's liking. All the more for me Smile
Piglet Willie - Dark red. Salad I think.   This and Jaune Flamme courtesy of Garrett, thanks very much.
Artisan Pink Bumblebee - Pretty pink cherry. New.
Burlesque - Beef. Red and very big. Good flavour last year.
Malachite Box - Beef. Green. Plant a bit weak but I loved the taste last year.
Purple Cherokee - Beef. Dark red. I liked the flavour last year.
Country Taste - Beef. Red. New. Supposedly disease resistant.

Outside - all blight resistant

Oh Happy Day - Big salad. Red. New
Crimson Crush - Salad. Red. New
Mountain Magic - Red. Did well for me last year
Primabella, Primavera - Large cherry. Red. Couldn't make my mind up which one, so decided on  both.

Outside in pots (as long as vine weevil permits)

Orangeto - Orange cherry. Semi bush. Supposedly sweet
Divinity - Red large cherry. Failed to germinate last year so its being given the chance to redeem itself.

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  2024 - What I plan to sow this week
Posted by: Veggie - 04-03-2024, 12:10 AM - Replies (11)

New thread - a sort of memory jogger. 
Tell us what your sowing plans are for the week. Maybe it will help the rest of us.

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  How many will you.........?
Posted by: Veggie - 01-03-2024, 08:06 PM - Replies (4)

Excuse me coming up with a nutty question but, its raining, and I've been thinking!
Bear with me .........if I sowed a different type of seed every day of the year it would be 365/6 different plants..........which got me wondering just how many different plants/varieties I do sow.
From there I wondered how many different plants I eat during a year........
I don't have any answers to these questions but wondered whether you have any answers based on your own experience.

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  Unhappy Camelia
Posted by: Small chilli - 27-02-2024, 10:34 AM - Replies (5)

Last august/ September I planted my camelia in a newly made raised bed. They’re not happy. Not flowered. One is going a bit yellow. This one has never done well, since I bought it. The other looks ok, it produced buds. They fell off. What do I need to add to the soil to help them recover? 
I know the stuff I used to fill that bed wasn’t the best of anything  Blush . My hellebore isn’t happy either, but lupins, and crazy daisy chrysanthemum are doing well. And tulips are all coming (still don’t know if they’ll flower).

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  Are these people for real?
Posted by: Vinny - 26-02-2024, 07:55 PM - Replies (3)

I dunno what the world is coming to?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68402362

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  Growing Leek stumps
Posted by: Veggie - 25-02-2024, 02:12 PM - Replies (4)

Never throw a leek stump away! If the base is intact, with roots, cut off the bottom inch or so and replant. 
No base, no roots - no worry!! Shop bought leeks are often trimmed - as are the ones I get FREE! Trim off the bottom inch or so and put it in a little water, not too much or the leek will rot. Here are some I prepared earlier - about 3 days ago!

    In their little pots.
    The green bit in the middle shows it wants to grow!
   
   

I'll give them a few more days in their pots to let the roots grow more, then plant them in my permanent leek bed - where all rejuvenated leeks live. They usually produce side leeks.  Some I cut off and use, leaving the stumps in situ, the rest are left to flower and self seed.

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  Soapwort
Posted by: Veggie - 25-02-2024, 01:13 PM - Replies (5)

I've intended to grow Soapwort for a while, even have some seeds ready for sowing. 
I'm sticking this link here https://www.wildfibres.co.uk/html/soapwort.html to remind what to do once I have some soapwort plants, not just a packet of seeds!

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