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Have a look at: http://www.countrylovers.co.uk/wfs/wfsberries.htm

Some interesting comments on various berries, the good and bad.

Anybody grow their own veg? I only have a tiny back garden so I am severally restricted to growing stuff in boxes. containers etc. The boxes in the the pic contain Courgettes, Radish. and my all time favourite vegetable Runner Beans. To my mind nothing compares to the first few pickings of 'Runaway beans' (Grandsons name for them).

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v492/ ... n/Oaks.jpg

The little Oak saplings in the buckets were grown from acorns gathered from Delville Wood near Longueval Somme region. Along with close bye High Wood they must equal the most aweful places in that dreadful battle.


My little Oaks have an interesting history. I have homes for all of them.


http://www.openwriting.com/archives/200 ... wood_1.php

From the link.

In 1926, the South African Government purchased Delville Wood. It was replanted with oaks grown from the acorns of trees in Stellenbosch – which, in their turn, were grown from acorns taken to South Africa from France by the Huguenots, centuries earlier.


Jenks

Bnz likes growing veg. Our old house had a plot about 6' x 2' and he started off there with carrots. runner beans and onions.

The place we have now is typical Essex clay so in winter it is boggy, summer it is cracked. He did manage to put a few frames up with top soil and compost mix a couple of years ago. One year we had peas, runner beans, beetroot, turnips, cabbage and sweetcorn. We also had some of those plastic/canvas planters with potatoes, carrots, more beetroot and leeks. It is quite something to look at a green carrot top and find a lovely orange carrot hiding under it. The taste and smell of a fresh potato is pretty good too. We had so much a couple of years ago Bnz made some really tasty vegetable soup. The only bought item was a stock cube. It froze well.

This is something we have growing now. Don't remember it's name but it seems to glow as the light fades in the evening.



These have been grown from cherry stones, even survived being out in the snow earlier in the year.

bobbob wrote: These have been grown from cherry stones, even survived being out in the snow earlier in the year.

Cherry PITS but then half the population of some towns in Essex are stoned mosts weekends! :evil:

Stones where I come from...

I've got about six apple/plum/pear trees about 3 feet high where people have just poked a pip/stone/seed into a flower pot/planter/propagator. :shock:

Great pics Bobbob.

Polchraine wrote:

bobbob wrote: These have been grown from cherry stones, even survived being out in the snow earlier in the year.

Cherry PITS but then half the population of some towns in Essex are stoned mosts weekends! :evil:

Got it wrong anyway, they are actually peach stones

bobbob wrote: Got it wrong anyway, they are actually peach stones

Will they turn into peaches as large as those in the Itsy Bitsy thread?

We gave up on vegetables but I do like fruit. This year the garden has:

Gooseberries
Blackcurrant
Apple
Pear
Tayberry
Grape

Plus within a very short walk we are going to have a bumper crop of Sloes, Blackberries, Damsons and the small Wild red and yellow Plums (Bullace's) Nearest being the Vicar's front garden

We should also have a reasonable crop of Chilli's

We have grapes too but they tend to say on the vines for the birds, make great coverage for the fence at the bottom of the garden.
We bought a fruit bush once called a Worcester berry. We used the berries like sloes with gin, lovely.