What a great feeling :)

[chris]

Thanks to you all, for the help and suggestions throughout my time as a member here I've been able to go outside today and dig up two types of spuds, parsnips (absolutely MASSIVE! definitely buying tender & true again!), carrots and leeks.

I've also got a few sprouts and spears of psb, but not really enough so I've had to bulk these up with bought in sprouts & calabreese.

Such an amazing feeling walking up the garden back to the house with pretty much my entire xmas meal!

So, thanks again! Have a great christmas!

[bramble]

Well done Chrismarks,doesn't it make all the hard work well worth it.
I hope they taste every bit as good as they look when you're enjoying them tomorrow.

[di]

After five years of trying and failing badly I finally have my own sprouts for Christmas dinner...just a shame it had to coincide with the year I couldn't get my parsnips to germinate
Best go get them cooked.
Happy Christmas.xxx

[chris]

Wow, amazing taste. I'm liking this. We had goose this year, never had it before, definitely going to cook it again next year, just hope I can find a free range farm near to me this time!

[matthew2riches]

My sprouts fluffed

[Florence Fennel]

Well done Chris! Sorry to hear your sprouts fluffed Matthew, but I bet they still tasted great? I had coloured frozen carrots that I harvested a couple of months ago and froze and the sweetest parsnips (Gladiator) that I have ever tasted. Took me ages to get them out of the ground armed with the kettle and jugs of boiling water!

[matthew2riches]

My parsnips were brilliant! Cabbage brilliant, PSB brilliant. Potatoes rank.

They were the only bad crop really this year.

[SarzWix]

I had a grand total of nothing I'd grown on the Christmas plates this year Potatoes all eaten; parsnips and brussels failed miserably; savoy cabbages never got to full size because it got cold too early, and are buried in snow along with the leeks; carrots, peas and beans all eaten from the freezer already... Good job we're not depending on the lottie to survive because all we'd be eating now is onions and dried beans, and jam...!