Anyone with an allotment?

Stick them near some bannanas

There are a few green-fig recipes out there. Someone suggested having them cooked in syrup and a green fig chutney would work, imho.

Half decent haul this morning, so many peppers left in the greenhouse but a long way from turning red. Not sure they will at this point, we’re missing a few panes of glass

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Day one on my first ever allotment. Me and my wife are now knackered, haha.

I give up trying to make the photos load in order but I think it's quite obvious.

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Good job, welcome to the club!

Allotments are the new lopro. Welcome. Looks like an ace start.
Things slowing down, might harvest all the green toms tomorrow before it’s too late.
Did get another big bag of chillis today at least.

Galeuse D'Eysines

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Good: tonnes of runner beans

Bad: something (squirrels?) at all our sweetcorn just before they were ripe. Ripped up the plants, destroyed everything but only actually nibbles the cobs. How to prevent this next year I wonder

If it is squirrels, you could be in trouble, they’re tenacious. Swap corn for potatoes!
I brought our pumpkins home, cleared the toms and tomatillos (something tells me I won’t need to buy more seeds for next year…).
Tidied up the raised beds in preparation for a manure dump and my thoughts drift off to the huge pond I intend to dig over winter.

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Brilliant work, start planning!

Oooh, they’re funky.

Planning is on plot layout at the moment. Our neighbour has some excellent poly tunnels so this may happen..

Anyone been down the garden centre lately? Wondering if there’s likely to be any broccoli or other things I was too late so sow….

So garden club at Crews Hill had fuck all apart from ornamental cabbages and loads of bulbs. Lots of cheap olive trees though.
Picked up a couple of bags of onion sets to make the journey worthwhile. Planted one bag of them in the polytunnel as last years overwinter onions weren’t much cop.

Harvested about 10kg of green tomatoes, hoping the banana method works for us as neither are fans of green chutney.

Met a new neighbour yesterday, young lad has taken on a plot that 3 successive tenants have failed to tackle, it’s one of the bigguns. If he pushes through the brambles all the way to the back fence he’ll have about 8x18m I reckon. Sadly it’s 80% brambles and 20% scrap metal at the moment. Looks like he’s pulled nearly a skips worth of shit off of it. It’s nuts. Will get some pics next time I’m up. The one thing he’s got in his favour is it’s the first plot from the gate so no distance to transport stuff in/out.

The more I look the less equally sized our plots are, not complaining cos I’ve got a biggie but I know we’re all paying the same and some are as much as double the size of others.

Got things into a decent (in my view) place for inspection. Planted onions. Tomatoes still hanging on.

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neither are fans of green chutney.

When I had a glut I also did green tomato and cardamom jam.

Oooo this sounds lush

My plot is the furthest from the gate, annoyingly I have to walk past it to get to the gate then go back up.

Yeah I like it.

For the avoidance of doubt, I mean jam like you put on toast, not some sort of fancy cheese condiment. I used the greenest of the tomatoes.

Garden not allotment, cookers overload this year. Eaters a bit late picking leaving it until Oct, so lost quite a few.

Also my young tree produced half a dozen eaters (Lord Lambourne variety) but they were eaten pronto.

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^ decking needs a good scrub I know.

Ooo crumble for months!

I got a Rocket Gardens Autumn veg patch voucher, the plants turned up today. 10 of each of the following:

Tatsoi
Kale
Spring green cabbage
Rainbow chard
Lambs lettuce
Land cress
Lettuce Brighton
Wild rocket
Red sorrel
Golden turnip
Red chicory

Time to dig up the tiny romanescos to make room.

How do the plants look from this company? Was thinking of ordering some oriental greens from then to go in the greenhouse over winter

They're pretty good, my kohlrabis came from them this year and they did brilliantly. They don't come potted up though so I pot them straight away if I'm not going to be able to plant them soon

Do you have anywhere cold you can store them? If you pack them in cardboard fruit with newspaper they should keep.