Anyone with an allotment?

I’ve been hooking a hose up to the mains supply at our plot. I don’t know how much water I use. But I’m there for about 45 minutes. It must put out about a litre every coupe of seconds. The plot is still one dry when I go to water the next time so god knows how other people plants are surviving

Our Brown Fig also produces a 2nd crop in the UK Summer,
but, they have never, so far, ripened.
Some will stay on the tree overwinter, but many succumb to the low temperatures
and just fall off dessicated, withered and brown.

I really should get round to using some of these dense/hard small green figs
in a Turkish recipe where they are cooked to tenderness in a clove-infused sugar syrup.

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I really should get round to using some of these dense/hard small green figs

in a Turkish recipe where they are cooked to tenderness in a clove-infused sugar syrup.

oooh, got a link? (Hedging that these may remain small and green)

Got my homebase £1/pack seeds through the other day. Cheers @Kat_Balou!

Have also ordered my autumn onion sets/garlic, 64 tulip and 40 daffodil bulbs, about 1/3 of which will end up at the allotment.

I’ve got a dumb raspberry related question.

Every year I cut my raspberries to the ground. Should I be doing this or leaving them to grow more shoots?

i think it depends on if theyre summer or autumn raspberries – one is to the ground and the other should be left 30cm tall or something

It's a while since I've been to Turkey, so my rudimentary at best Turkish is even more rusty.
Incir = fig, and recel =jam, so any search for incir receli will get you close.
I found 'whats4eats', which gives you the quantities and ratios for the clove infused syrup, but they parboil the unripe green figs to remove the skins.

I'm certain the karanfili incir, (karanfil = clove), were whole and needed to be cut with the side edge of a spoon, rather than bolt a whole one down.

Maybe the skins of unripe figs this far north just don't soften enough.

I guess check the skin on green figs as they marinade in the clove syrup to ensure they become soft.

I think some fruit on last year's growth so need different pruning to those that fruit on the same years growth.

All this fig talk moved me to post this. We’re in Croatia and the guy we’re renting our holiday house from brought these around yesterday.

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Need to see an interior shit to gauge ripeness.
Bitd would have been feasting, daily, on these in the Turkish Aegean.

Need to see an interior shit to gauge ripeness.

Hopefully not that ripe :-0

They are delicious.

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Discovered some well camouflaged courgettes at our plot this evening - they average a kilo a piece

Ludicrous crop this year tbh, I think we’ve had 20 from 3 plants in the last two weeks

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Nice figs all around

Just various beans & tomatoes here, oh and hedgerow blackberries.

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Same here - seems to be two new ones every day…! Running out of recipes…

The good people of Les Houches know how to allotment in mountain conditions.

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That looks idyllic

I'm guessing the team that decided the qwerty layout thought of all the fun that having 'i' next to 'o' would bring down the years.

Yeah it’s sort of annoying. We did two fewer plants this year after being overwhelmed last year, but they also got a sunnier spot and have clearly enjoyed it.

My main trick for the glut has been to cook thin slices down v slowly with a load of garlic to make a stir-through pasta sauce type goop, and then freeze it in jars

Cool. Have been adding strips to pasta as a ki d of courgette pasta - works well! Cakes next…

You can add @NorthLondonLight to your courgette glut support group.

Texture tends to be what's lacking from courgette-based dishes.
Turkish mucver, (shallow fried courgette pancakes), has as much as you like,
depending upon how long you leave them in the frypan.
This recipe adds carrot, but you'll get the gist:
https://www.thecommunityfarm.co.uk/recipes/mucver-turkish-courgette-and-carrot-pancakes

I'm slightly embarrassed to admit I have failed to grow a single courgette this year. The absolute easiest vegetable to grow in abundance and I've failed, incredible. Don't stick two plants in the same pot is my only advice.

Can replace marrow with courgette iirc, should bust your gluts.

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/marrow-ginger-jam

I haven't bothered with them this year, I don't enjoy eating them and I think we still have Jam ^ from last time we had a glut.