ninehertz

1. • Pete
   • * * * middle-age thread alert * * *
     
     I've just checked the plants in my garden, and my cauliflowers have finally started to sprout. Exciting times.
     
     I've also got loads of broad beans growing strong - anyone got any good (veggie) recipes to use them in?
     
     And I've got a herb garden - thyme, rosemary, bay leaves, chives, lemon thyme, mint - which I all use, but I've also got bush loads of sage which I have no idea what to do with - any suggestions?
   • [18:56 on 12/07/10]
2. • Jack
   • You and Donny, stoner rock gardening
   • [19:08 on 12/07/10]
3. • Mazz
   • I use my sage in my homemade Turkey Burgers.
   • [19:09 on 12/07/10]
4. • Carey
   • Not made it but this looks nice.
   • [19:14 on 12/07/10]
5. • Hopkins
   • sage and butternut squash risotto is the shizzle
     also growing lemon thyme, which went well with a cod and chorizo bake
     use rosemary stalks as skewers for bbqs
     use broad beans in a warm potato salad, i use red onion, creme fraiche, mint and chive in mine
     
     just had our first runner beans come through, nom nom
     [Edited by Hopkins at 20:09 on 12/07/10]
   • [20:08 on 12/07/10]
6. • the chap
   • hate runner and the broadest of beans
     we have mange tout, spuds, onions, garlic, toms, a veritable array of herbs - thyme variations, basil variations, rosemary x 3, and loads of others i cant remember! leeks, cherrys, apples, strawberries...
     phew!
   • [21:24 on 12/07/10]
7. • Donny
   • Now we're talking.
     
     Cumcumbers have got massive, picking decent sized ones off regularly.
     
     Chillies are going great guns.
     
     Sweetcorn have beards on them and are standing about 5ft tall now.
     
     Toms have fruit on them.
     
     Courgettes do the same as every year, get massive but produce nothing!
     
     Potatoes have just finished flowering.
     
     Peas were great but have died off, gonna pull them up and replace with kale for the winter
     
     Garlic is looking strong.
     
     Carrots and parsnips look okay now the cat has stopped digging them up
     
     Planted white bolt hardy beetroot this year, never have success with beetroot, but these are massive already!
     
     Celery looks okay
     
     Broad beans look alright, don't pay much attention coz I don't really like them.
     
     Can't grow radish for shit. Bolt straight away, same as our salad.
     
     Herb patch is doing well, apart from the mustard that bolted, but now we're getting mustard seeds from it.
     
     Sorry, got a bit excited there. That is all.
     
     
   • [06:49 on 13/07/10]
8. • bad admiral
   • 9hz harvest festival. i can bring some tinned soup which has been sitting in my cupboard since 1998.
   • [10:29 on 13/07/10]
9. • Rob Himself
   • Awesome thread.
     
     My first year of gardening has yielded little as I didn't plant much, although i have shitloads of cherry tomatoes coming out now, awesome garlic from before Christmas, quite a few potatoes and spinach and beetroot going ok.
     
     My pride and joy are my two enormous pumpkin vines which have spread over most of the veg patch and looking pretty promising. Pumpkin pie and soup ahoy!
     
     My garden was a dump when we moved in, so I'm getting there. Next year i'll be really organised with raised beds and everything.
   • [12:29 on 13/07/10]
10. • bad admiral
    • is anybody using their gardens for cool stuff like drugs?
    • [12:31 on 13/07/10]
11. • Mazz
    • I counted four cats in our garden yesterday. They were all were ignoring each other. I think they were looking for the drugs.
    • [12:38 on 13/07/10]
12. • Ollie
    • I hate gardening...with a vengeance!!! I don't even like sitting in our garden.
    • [13:05 on 13/07/10]
13. • Donny
    • Ollie says:

      I hate gardening...with a vengeance!!! I don't even like sitting in our garden.
      
      
      Ha ha, go sit in an underground car park!
    • [14:25 on 13/07/10]
14. • pull-my-plonker
    • Donny says:

      Now we're talking.
      
      Cumcumbers have got massive, picking decent sized ones off regularly.
      
      Chillies are going great guns.
      
      Sweetcorn have beards on them and are standing about 5ft tall now.
      
      Toms have fruit on them.
      
      Courgettes do the same as every year, get massive but produce nothing!
      
      Potatoes have just finished flowering.
      
      Peas were great but have died off, gonna pull them up and replace with kale for the winter
      
      Garlic is looking strong.
      
      Carrots and parsnips look okay now the cat has stopped digging them up
      
      Planted white bolt hardy beetroot this year, never have success with beetroot, but these are massive already!
      
      Celery looks okay
      
      Broad beans look alright, don't pay much attention coz I don't really like them.
      
      Can't grow radish for shit. Bolt straight away, same as our salad.
      
      Herb patch is doing well, apart from the mustard that bolted, but now we're getting mustard seeds from it.
      
      Sorry, got a bit excited there. That is all.
      
      
      
      
      Donny = Sainsburys.
    • [19:37 on 13/07/10]
15. • Mazz
    • yeah..just been watering my beans.
      
      [Edited by Mazz at 19:43 on 13/07/10]
    • [19:43 on 13/07/10]
16. • Hopkins
    • are they your pyjamas?
    • [21:11 on 13/07/10]
17. • Mazz
    • The bottoms are. The top is something that laura made when she was sixteen for an art project. Her mother found it at the weekend and I said that I would have it....You can see why.
    • [21:14 on 13/07/10]
18. • bad admiral
    • i have those boots but in a lower gloss.
    • [09:11 on 14/07/10]
19. • Ollie
    • The only garden I like is a lady garden!!!!
    • [09:43 on 14/07/10]
20. • Rob Himself
    • Mazz says:

      yeah..just been watering my beans.
      
      
      
      I just assumed you'd found a funny picture of Dave Navarro gardening.
      
      I love growing my own veg, but part of me really wants to punch Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in the face.
    • [12:48 on 15/07/10]

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