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Posted: **Sat Sep 13, 2008 5:45 pm**

Harvest season...

So whats everyone harvesting and cooking up?

Already produced a load of jams from the tilberrys, Gooseberry and blackcurrants

Big harvest from the Orchard at Heztlet HouseI'm in the mists of cooking up Spiced Apple Butter (like a thick spread/sliceable cheese texture) from the "Irish Peach" desert apples

and the next batch will be shed loads of apple chutney from the various cooking apples from the same orchard.

Smells wicked in the house at the moment

Posted: **Sat Sep 13, 2008 6:23 pm**

my chilli plants are doing well,the tomatoes are nearlly there,french runner beans are also doing well,im thinking thai curry

oh dear,ive turned into a hippy :lol:

Posted: **Sat Sep 13, 2008 7:17 pm**

hell yeah! Thai curry.. deffo

and some hot thai curry soups.. yum!

Posted: **Sat Sep 13, 2008 8:21 pm**

good on ya boys....mom jammed up all my plums and her apricots...only nuff peaches for eating this year, and my grapes only gave a few this year too..still young. oh yeah the nectarines were killer too!!!
all past out here tho, now on to artichokes and some corn.

Posted: **Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:02 pm**

parrysurf wrote:mom jammed up all my plums and her apricots...only nuff peaches for eating this year.

Lol that sounds a bit wrong :roll:

Posted: **Sun Sep 14, 2008 3:14 pm**

With all the wet weather our carrot and parsnips were decimated by slugs and snails.

OK crop of Toms (three varieties) and some decent pears

Posted: **Sun Sep 14, 2008 3:26 pm**

you should see my uncles GREEN house......spears to the roof, colas next to colas, and almost 2 months to grow still to come. gotta crawl in under the overgrowth. Northern lights, maui x haze, and some bubba kush.....Harvest season is gonna be a smokin good time round here....... I love the medical pot laws in California.

Posted: **Sun Sep 14, 2008 3:35 pm**

PapaW wrote:
parrysurf wrote:mom jammed up all my plums and her apricots...only nuff peaches for eating this year.

Lol that sounds a bit wrong

My mum is a fun lady....who jams some sweet jam!! You should try her pie!! :shock:

Had me a nice PB&J for lunch yesterday!

Posted: **Sun Sep 14, 2008 4:45 pm**

We had a pretty killer tomato year. But they are ripe somewhere around early July. One day we came in with 2 five gallon buckets full.

Posted: **Sun Sep 14, 2008 5:29 pm**

parrysurf wrote:you should see my uncles GREEN house......spears to the roof, colas next to colas, and almost 2 months to grow still to come. gotta crawl in under the overgrowth. Northern lights, maui x haze, and some bubba kush.....Harvest season is gonna be a smokin good time round here....... I love the medical pot laws in California.

sweet

harvested one of mine already and the other is still ripening.

Posted: **Sun Sep 14, 2008 6:55 pm**

Already helped my mum make the raspberry jam, had a really good plum crumble last weekend but no plum jam this year as massive wasp damage to most of the fruit, plus my little dog (despite being 12years old) has learnt to jump up and steal plums off the tree when she thinks no one is looking, thus the lower branches of the tree are strangely bare....