Ac Baker

Glendale cabbage?!

"In the parish of Glendale, on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, folk talk of a giant cabbage once grown by their ancestors."

I think I've eaten this .. and we called it "Shetland cabbage"?

https://gaiafoundation.org/where-giants-grow/

We had our local Syrian chef's delicacies today, leaving more time for gardening! But we did have our own golden cherry tomatoes with this, and our own purple grapes for afters (and we had home-grown frozen red raspberries and blackberries with breakfast).

(Specifically, handmade falafel, Syrian baba ghanouj (which is a fine chopped smoked aubergine [purple eggplant] and tomato salad]), mutabel (which is the smooth smoked aubergine and tahini dip), hummus, hummus Beiruty (with diced chillis and herbs), spicy friend potato cubes with capiscum pepper chunks, rice stuffed vine leaves, & flat bread).

I have successfully grown potatoes, chillis, grape vines, a few chickpeas, and parsley that could be a start for making this ourselves.  But we don't have a "hot house" (glass or plastic) to reliably grow many of the rest of the ingredients.

Thank you for this really helpful thread! I am planning to try to make my first ever sourdough starter this winter.  

Question: has anyone experienced problems due to adopting a 'no discard' approach to creating the starter?

I've seen some methods to discard, some with no discard, and some who make pancakes from the discard.

Thanks for any experience on this people wish to share!

Apparently, my Mum's mother visited the Crystal Palace in it's final location, as a child, so maybe ten years before it burned down?

Exciting! And complicated ..  And I see what you mean about the weather. Hoping you might get a couple of hours at least this coming week, to work on that ridgepole.  

I love this concept!

I'm just thinking about access to the polytunnel runoff wet zone ..  Could you have the keyholes on that side about twice as deep, to give access to that space without any  extra paths?

Could you prepare some of the keyhole beds with the no-dig deep mulch potato method? Have you got enough suitable mulch? Maybe early potatoes to harvest one plant at a time for summer dinners, so you get the planting space back quicker? Would that be enough to clear the existing growth?

Exciting!

Figs WILL ripen for me in the English Midlands!

And they are delicious.

Part of the issue seems to be, having the tree planted in the ground.  Even in a very big pot, the leaves wilt quickly & the fruitlets get dropped early.

An impressive range of apple varieties grown from grafting as individual or family trees, by our resident top fruit enthusiast:

Two Coeur de Boeuf, Bramley's Seedling,  two Egremont Russet, Howgate Wonder, James Grieve, Golden Delicious, and Lord Lambourne varieties.

Five dwarf rootstock trees in total

Thank you so much for your rapid reply.

This is such an interesting technique, yet I had never heard of layering otherwise annual brassicas before!

When you say, 'Territorial', do you mean these are strains where you've been saving your own seed to adapt them to the local conditions?

Thank you for the intriguing pictures!

I am definitely going to be trying layering my annual brassicas. Thank you!