Anyone with an allotment?

I'll be honest, I can't remember! They're a dwarf variety so possibly 'Amethyst'? They go green when you cook them though...

Good haul today. This is about a quarter of it. Nuff beans and other chillis too.

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Shipping out them packs fam

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Those tomatoes are looking perfect

Turned into 1litre of blood red passata :)

Brined the currant toms with some biquinhos and shishito for a few jars of anti pasti.

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Do you filter out the skins or just as they are?

For passata? Roast with some garlic, chilli, chives and basil then smoosh it through a sieve with a spoon to remove skins and seeds.

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Nice! Our toms aren't ready yet and everything else is looking a bit sad.
Put some more brassica seeds in and also put a bunch of beetroot and rocket out.
Been enjoying lots of raspberries.

Today’s chillis are nice.
Saving the orange Caribbean in the freezer for a sauce once there’s a few more ripened, used some snakes in the passata.
Drying the big red basques and will grind for powder.

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Looks amazing

Rewarded for your effort, well done.

My cherry toms are starting to ripen, the posh wanky varieties are still vey much green.

More chillis today. Sugar rush peach bell, lfgss aji lemon, anchos and some misc small sweet peppers.

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Thats a nice selection of peppers - have you ever grown Chilli Willys ?

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lol I have not, maybe next year :)

Allotment been a bit of a disaster this year. Beans either got eaten or didn’t germinate, 12 cucumbers and none made it. No carrots germinated. 5 squash eaten to death one (accidentally germinated in a pot of homemade compost) has survived. Was away in the hot spell and the potatoes really struggled, none have been particularly productive. Good old sweetcorn had smashed it though, 4 nice cobs so far and a good 20 to come. Chickens love the little ones which don’t really get to edible size.

What can I get planted now?

What can I plant that give me some ground cover? Weeds are very easy to spread on our plot

Field Beans (a bit like Broad Beans)

Anything I can eat?

I’ve got some lettuce and leafy mix. But concerned it’s all going to get eaten

I’ll probably try some autumn king carrots and maybe some beetroot.

Anything I can eat?

Leeks maybe?

Yes! That’s the stuff

I’m probably pushing it a bit with both but if we have a few good weeks for germination hopefully the carrots will get big enough to pick through December.

Potatoes, leeks, spring onions, mizuna. Get some green manure on like clover.

You’d probably turn around a crop of radishes fairly easily as well.