How are your stored veg doing??

[Alison]

Onions, shallots and tatties looking good in the garage, carrots, swede, leeks and winter brassicas all in the ground at the plot, loads of stuff in the freezer and jars, winter squashes on the top of a dresser and best of all long keeper tomatoes storing perfectly on the kitchen window ledge. Really proud of these and they're doing so much better than when I've stored them in the garage / fridge.


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[Gina's plot]

Onions, shallots and tatties looking good in the garage, carrots, swede, leeks and winter brassicas all in the ground at the plot, loads of stuff in the freezer and jars, winter squashes on the top of a dresser and best of all long keeper tomatoes storing perfectly on the kitchen window ledge. Really proud of these and they're doing so much better than when I've stored them in the garage / fridge.


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I never have much success storing potatoes! Have made lots of chutney and pasta sauce with all my tomatoes


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[hawthorns]

All potatoes now gone. Butternut squash have not stored well on top of kitchen units, don't think I cured them off enough before harvesting. Red kuri went off very quickly. Carrots in shed are still good. Swede tucked up in shed wrapped in straw. Sturon onions have stored brilliantly well and have a few left. Garlic has also done well along with chillis. Shallots stored poorly.parsnip,leeks, kale and PSB all still in the ground

[Penellype]

Sturon onions storing very well hung in strings in the garage. Potatoes (Desiree, Sarpo Axona) storing well in their bags in the garage. Carrots, leeks, cabbage all ready to eat as required in the ground with PSB, spring onions and some sad looking spinach coming along slowly. Tomatoes still going on the sitting room windowsill. Tomatoes, carrots, courgettes, peas and turnips in the freezer in various guises. Not bought a vegetable (apart from the odd mushroom) for months.

[out in the cold]

French beans and broads in the freezer, as are some blackcurrants. Pickled runners and carrots are still good and have another jar. Pumpkin in fridge ready to be used either this or next week. Still have a decent amount of garlic and lots of dried herbage.

My spuds have chitted, despite being stored in a potato sack in a dark cupboard. Is this normal?

[Snadger]

They are stored in the dark in a box just resting on top of each other.

What I find is that the skins go hard and then the flesh starts to dry out.
At the moment they are just tough skinned.

As I mentioned they are more marrow sized so maybe that helps??

Can't use the skin to eat ...just the pulp, but it cooks as if it has been freshly cut from the plant!

Marrow Mocassins?

[greenishfing]

My onions and garlic are storing well plaited up and hung in the shed with the potatoes and apples in boxes.

I've got winter festival squash spread out on the greenhouse staging.

In the ground I've got parsnips, swede, sprouts, PSB. leeks and cauliflowers just ready now.

The freezer is full of beans, peas, sweetcorn, roasted tomatoes, roasted peppers, strawberries,

raspberries and blackberries as well as home made soups etc.

I don't think we'll starve any time soon!!!

[Alison]

Tonight we're having a bean and squash stew type thing which contains onion from the garage, squash from on top of the dresser, dried beans from the cupboard, garlic from my home made lazy garlic and home made bottled passata. Quite proud of it although I have added a few mushrooms that needed eating up

[Vince G]

Down to the last few potatoes now, might have to buy some by the weekend. Onions still perfectly OK, 2 large nets full. One lonely squash left.

Lots still in the freezer though: peppers, chillies, broadies, peas and corncobs, plus a few pickled gherkins in the fridge, half a large kilner jar of dried borlotti and a smaller jar of chickpeas.

[MartinRSharpe]

Onions: Just finished the last of them but lost a load to rot as they were not dried quickly. Something I will attempt to do better with this year.

Garlic: got loads left and storing well

Potatoes (Salad Blue and Cara): both stored well and should see us though well into summer.

Leeks: Still got about 25-30 in the ground, slowly going though them.

Squash: 1 Blue Hubbard and 1 Spaghetti squash left. Both varieties stored well and will do again next year.

We had tomatoes ripening until about November, they were usually just turned into pasta sauce as soon as we had a handful ripe. All gone now!

Lots of other bits peas, beans, carrots etc were just used as required so were probably never off the plant for more than a matter of hours before being eaten!

[Nicos]

Feels really good doesn't it????

I have just 'discovered' that I have a wheelbarrow full of apples too which the OH left in the barn...yey!!!!!