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  • GYO Christmas Dinner?

    Share your top tips for a homegrown Christmas lunch (growing advice, recipes - whatever you like) and you could be in with a chance of winning a prize!

    Our favourite posts from this thread will be printed in the December issue of GYO magazine and the winning grapes will each be awarded a £10 Thomson & Morgan voucher (please note tips must be posted before midnight on the 2nd October 2012 to be considered and may be edited for the magazine).

    Looking forward to reading your posts!

    Best wishes from
    Nikki & the GYO team

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    Lettuce, tomato, capsicum, cucumber. Cous cous with bacon, mushrooms, capsicum and lots of garlic. Icecream made with berries, mint and pistachio nuts. Green beans with balsamic vinegar and sesame seeds. Waldorf salad. Grated carrot and grated raw beetroot with walnuts, either balsamic vinegar and olive oil, or maybe a creamy mayonaise because it's christmas. BBQ prawns.

    I'll stop now, because I'm full already
    Ali

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    Some days it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints!

    One bit of old folklore wisdom says to plant tomatoes when the soil is warm enough to sit on with bare buttocks. In surburban areas, use the back of your wrist. Jackie French

    Member of the Eastern Branch of the Darn Under Nutter's Club

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    • #3
      Sorry Nikki but even the incentive of a £10 voucher will not make me think about Ch******s dinner in September

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      • #4
        My sprouts have turned out to be cauliflowers so I won't have any of them homegrown . I will however have carrots and swede, parsnips, potatoes etc. I grow storing type tomatoes so that I can serve home grown ones fresh over the earlier parts of the winter and should have some fresh salad stuffs. Last year (or maybe the one before) I made a lovely stuffing from foraged chestuts, leeks and apricots (although did have to buy the apricots). Christmas tea is likely to involve a fresh trifle with frozen raspberries and I have managed to make cranberry sauce from home grown ones but this year I'll have to buy them.

        Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

        Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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        • #5
          I will be down the plot on Christmas Eve cutting myself a stick of sprouts (if the caterpillars have left me any), some leeks, parsnips, carrots, and a stonehead cabbage (and I will leave some seed out for the birds' Christmas dinner too). Potatoes will be sifted from their bags on Christmas morning and I will get some of the broad beans we grew earlier in the year out of the freezer. I'm feeling quite festive, writing that!
          Last edited by Pinfold Plotter; 25-09-2012, 12:21 PM.

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          • #6
            Christmas lunch will be Jerusalem artichoke soup followed by a pasta salad, beetroot, frozen broad beans and All year round lettuce out of the GH.

            For dinner I'm hoping to have sprouts, kale, leeks, carrots and parsnips all from the garden to go with our roast beef.
            Location....East Midlands.

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            • #7
              I'll have swede and squash - roasted with the Desiree spuds, leeks, Tundra cabbage and/or Sutherland kale

              I haven't decided on the meat/poultry part of the meal - but do know what veg will be available

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              • #8
                I have grown Charlottes in a bag, which will be in the polytunnel through the Autumn months until Christmas day, when hopefully they will be ready. I have sown a winter hardy carrot for a fingerling crop in the polytunnel, again in the vain hope of putting them on the plate. Brassicas are already planted on the allotment as part of our normal Winter diet and I have stored potatoes as you can't have a Christmas dinner without roasties. My only fail this year is parsnips, but am hoping that I can do a swapsie with someone on the allotment
                Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

                Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw

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                • #9
                  gosh reading all that the other grapes had listed made me envious
                  then i realised i have

                  christmas potatoes
                  carrots
                  parsnips
                  green sprouts
                  red sprouts
                  kale
                  leeks
                  and
                  cabbage
                  from the freezer
                  runner beans
                  broad beans

                  raspberries strawberries blackberries currant red/black for the freezer fruit pavlova a christmas special of late
                  does make you feel good that after a somewhat weather spoiled season we are still able to provide somthing for our tables.
                  this will be a battle from the heart
                  cymru am byth

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                  • #10
                    Since the vegetables have been dealt with at length, I'll mention cold-stored-apple with bottled-blackberry pie (I grow more raspberries than blackberries, but find that raspberry is a fragile taste that's not the same bottled, so I simply eat the lot fresh now). And if I can get the arapuca to work, pigeon or pheasant.

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                    • #11
                      I know it's Christmas when we start drinking Allotment Kir Royales! Elderflower 'Champagne' with some homegrown cassis. I'm bottling ours now, so it's ready by mid-December. My favourite drink of the year!
                      I don't roll on Shabbos

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                      • #12
                        Well I'm for the traditional turkey! Hatch in April/May and slowly feed up for Christmas. I couldn't buy one from the shops again.

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                        • #13
                          I will concentrate on feeding up the chicken with good quality food so that's it's lovely and ripe for the oven... As they say, you are what you eat
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                          I am kidding of course. I haven't even got a chicken


                          Chris
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                          • #14
                            No fowl for us now since keeping them...sob!
                            Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

                            Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw

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                            • #15
                              potatos (lady christl) hopefully will be ok i have them growing in 4 scaffolding clip bags (extra strong bags) but there was a slight ground frost the other week which nipped a couple of leaves (now moved into lottie greenhouse) carrots i grow every year in window boxes with great results (taste alone makes these worthwhile) as its my first full year with a lottie i also have sprouts (red and green) which are looking good and are in a sheltered area and well healed in , parsnips (i sampled one last week) have done really well, and also a new one on me roast beetroot ,i have always boiled them before so i tried them roasted the other week there exellent and finally a drop of homemade sloe gin

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