Polytunnel

[Hoddy]

View attachment 15160 a few tomatoes....

I didn’t get my brandy wines in early enough and they just haven’t got going at all. I’ve a few sets lower down but after that all the flowers have dropped. I think that really hot 6-8 weeks hasn’t helped.

Gardeners delight and the cherry’s have done fine tho.

Nice work [emoji1303]


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[Oneflewover]

View attachment 15160 a few tomatoes....

Wow, those are some beautiful toms, well done!

 

[MmmBeer]

Finally getting some fruits on my ghost chilli plants.

I read that they are notoriously difficult and slow to get to full ripeness and full heat. Hopefully the little growbag greenhouse they are in will keep them warm enough to make them thermonuclear.

 

[Clint]

nearly 10kg chopped and bagged for the freezer

 

[Clint]

...added 2kg of stoned plums too.

 

[Hoddy]

View attachment 15164 nearly 10kg chopped and bagged for the freezer

That’s an interesting way to store them. How do you use them after freezing?


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[Clint]

Not done it before but apparently they're good for cooking...Bolognese,curries...I recon I could take another 10kg this week at least... probably do chutney too.

 

[Hoddy]

Not done it before but apparently they're good for cooking...Bolognese,curries...I recon I could take another 10kg this week at least... probably do chutney too.

Interesting. I normally spend loads of time making passata to store but this seems way lower maintenance.


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[Clint]

How do you make it?

 

[Hoddy]

How do you make it?

I rough chop all the tomatoes. Then fry up an onion (depends on how many to tomatoes your doing) with some garlic.

I then throw that in with the tomatoes with some fresh basil. A table spoon of brown sugar, black pepper and a tablespoon of balsamic vinegar. A dribble of water and heat gently and whizz with a hand blender as it heats up and softens.

Add more salt/balsamic/pepper to taste.

Once soft and boiled so it’s sterilised I then put it threw sieve to get the seeds and course stalk ends out.

Pour into glass screw top bottles or jars sterilised in the oven. Then if you want you can stand them in boiling water for 10 minutes to finally pasteurise.

Should then keep for best part of 18 months and use in Bolognese, soups, home made baked beans, anything you like.


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[Clint]

That's great! Cheers!

 

[Clint]

been busy...

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I have a small concrete yard that is access to my back door i am very jealous of your set up Clint.

 

[Clint]

I just would have liked it all at home... allotment is fine but you're back and to all the time....

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I just would have liked it all at home.

I thought it was at your home.

I assumed you had a big garden.

 

[pvt_ak]

Inspired by Hoddy and Clint I picked a load of tomatoes this morning and made some slow cooker meatballs and pasta for dinner tonight, threw in an Apache For arrabbiata style.

Damn damn scrummy !

Going to plant up some garlic this year I think.

Chilli jam lined up for tomorrow night to use up some chillis !


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[Clint]

Garlic...great idea! My home grown is much stronger than the shop bought. I'll be planting mine probably October/November. The key is lots of organic matter....my dad keeps pigeons,he's got a couple of large drums of well rotted muck for me. Plus we should be having another manure delivery.

 

[pvt_ak]

Nice tip - thanks matey [emoji106]


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[Hoddy]

Garlic...great idea! My home grown is much stronger than the shop bought. I'll be planting mine probably October/November. The key is lots of organic matter....my dad keeps pigeons,he's got a couple of large drums of well rotted muck for me. Plus we should be having another manure delivery.

When I had my chickens (before mr badger paid me a visit) I used to be able to feed them all my spent grains and also store up and use al their muck. Top quality for the veggies.


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[Hoddy]

I just would have liked it all at home... allotment is fine but you're back and to all the time....

Yeah that is the down side to allotments. But you can get so much space.

I'm really lucky enough to have my veggie space in my own back garden.

The only downside is SWMBO won't let me poly tunnel the whole plot. Loving your big tunnels Clint. Ive only got an 8 x 6.

Project patio started over the bank holiday weekend. Well it's more of an extension to the brew shed. I might start a thread for it as an a new one to follow on from my brew shed build last year.


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