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Oh for Tesco's sprouts
I have to agree with my wife. My home grown sprouts taste dreadful compared
with Tesco's. Sprouts are my favourite veg, but not these. Where can I have gone wrong? Sprouts are the only veg I ever grow non organically. I find I have to give the caterpillars a blast in July otherwise when we get back from hols there'll be none left. |
Oh for Tesco's sprouts
"Trevor" wrote ... I have to agree with my wife. My home grown sprouts taste dreadful compared with Tesco's. Sprouts are my favourite veg, but not these. Where can I have gone wrong? Sprouts are the only veg I ever grow non organically. I find I have to give the caterpillars a blast in July otherwise when we get back from hols there'll be none left. Probably just a difference in variety, what varieties did you grow? We usually grow Trafalgar and Icarus (both from T & M) Were yours bitter to the taste? (old fashioned varieties were) -- Regards Bob In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London |
Oh for Tesco's sprouts
"Trevor" wrote in message om... I have to agree with my wife. My home grown sprouts taste dreadful compared with Tesco's. Sprouts are my favourite veg, but not these. Where can I have gone wrong? Sprouts are the only veg I ever grow non organically. I find I have to give the caterpillars a blast in July otherwise when we get back from hols there'll be none left. Veg gardening is not my forte-but this year I grew tomatoes, onions and cucumbers in the garden. It was *not* my idea. My partner , the same one that will pick big bunches of flowers from the garden although they have taken years to bloom,bought one of those packets of various seeds and insisted that I plant them. Results: -- Not bad really. Cucumber about the size of a sausage but tasted just like cucumber. Tomatoes --excellent yield and tasted of buga all. Onions---Well, they made something the size of marbles (you lot call them sets) and it was decided that these were worth noshing. Disgusting . I will stick to flowers and other things and gladly buy veggie stuff elsewhere. I really admire the veggie growers who put their skill on the line. No one ever knows that the bloom on my delphiniums is not really that good. |
Oh for Tesco's sprouts
Bob Hobden wrote:
"Trevor" wrote ... I have to agree with my wife. My home grown sprouts taste dreadful compared with Tesco's. Sprouts are my favourite veg, but not these. Where can I have gone wrong? Sprouts are the only veg I ever grow non organically. I find I have to give the caterpillars a blast in July otherwise when we get back from hols there'll be none left. Probably just a difference in variety, what varieties did you grow? We usually grow Trafalgar and Icarus (both from T & M) Were yours bitter to the taste? (old fashioned varieties were) or is it just that they actually taste of something? ....also do you wait for a frost? |
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from "Rupert" contains these words: Results: -- Not bad really. Cucumber about the size of a sausage but tasted just like cucumber. OK - try growing them under polythene cloches at the very least. IME last season was *NOT* good for cucumbers, even under glass. Tomatoes --excellent yield and tasted of buga all. Most commercial varieties (especially Moneymaker) do taste of SFA. Try Ailsa Craig, Shirley or Alicante, in that order of (my) preference. Some of the so-called 'vine tomatoes' also have good flavour, but I couldn't specify a variety. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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Rusty Hinge 2 wrote: The message from "Rupert" contains these words: Results: -- Not bad really. Cucumber about the size of a sausage but tasted just like cucumber. OK - try growing them under polythene cloches at the very least. IME last season was *NOT* good for cucumbers, even under glass. How strange, I grew fine cucumbers this year outside in a vase a friend gave me. The vase was made of rubber. I grew 4 huge cucumbers. They tasted really really fresh too. I'm trying to find some more rubber containers now because it's worth it really. |
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writes Veg gardening is not my forte-but this year I grew tomatoes, onions and cucumbers in the garden. It was *not* my idea. My partner , the same one that will pick big bunches of flowers from the garden although they have taken years to bloom,bought one of those packets of various seeds and insisted that I plant them. Results: -- Not bad really. Cucumber about the size of a sausage but tasted just like cucumber. Tomatoes --excellent yield and tasted of buga all. Onions---Well, they made something the size of marbles (you lot call them sets) and it was decided that these were worth noshing. Disgusting . I will stick to flowers and other things and gladly buy veggie stuff elsewhere. I really admire the veggie growers who put their skill on the line. No one ever knows that the bloom on my delphiniums is not really that good. Try fruit. Perennials are easier and a lot more forgiving ;-) Most things need an annual prune. But you're not growing at such an intensive pace, so if your garden soil is reasonably fertile, you don't need to worry about fertiliser, it's easier to avoid pesticides, and you can grow varieties and flavours that you can't get in the shops. And whereas it is now possible to buy good quality vegetables not too expensively, that's not quite so true of fruit. -- Kay Easton |
Oh for Tesco's sprouts
Kay Easton wrote: Try fruit. Perennials are easier and a lot more forgiving ;-) Most things need an annual prune. But you're not growing at such an intensive pace, so if your garden soil is reasonably fertile, you don't need to worry about fertiliser, it's easier to avoid pesticides, and you can grow varieties and flavours that you can't get in the shops. And whereas it is now possible to buy good quality vegetables not too expensively, that's not quite so true of fruit. Perhaps but you also need more space, more insect traps, you attract nasty biting insects, you get more shade and your soil becomes eventually no good for anything else. I inherited an orchard/lotty once, belonging to an old head mistress since the war and it was indeed marvelous, lots and lots of fruits I had but couldn't grow anything else. You can grow veggies in any sort of containers with very little effort. You can grow vegs on the ground without having to dig either. I've never used pesticides in anything I've grown. |
Oh for Tesco's sprouts
"Mikey" wrote in message ... Bob Hobden wrote: "Trevor" wrote ... I have to agree with my wife. My home grown sprouts taste dreadful compared with Tesco's. Sprouts are my favourite veg, but not these. Where can I have gone wrong? Sprouts are the only veg I ever grow non organically. I find I have to give the caterpillars a blast in July otherwise when we get back from hols there'll be none left. Probably just a difference in variety, what varieties did you grow? We usually grow Trafalgar and Icarus (both from T & M) Were yours bitter to the taste? (old fashioned varieties were) or is it just that they actually taste of something? ...also do you wait for a frost? It's not bitterness, and I did start using them in early Nov when we were getting daytime temps regularly above 15 C. I thought they might be better after frost, but we have had many many frosts and it hasn't changed things. The taste hints to me of some kind of insect activity rather than a chemical or taste in the plant itself. As for variety, well I'm no saint at record keeping. I choose two varieties each year from the Organic Gardening Catalogue. One for Nov-Dec and one late. I definitely grow Peer gynt, because I read this was the last year it would be available. Just looking at their website, it looks like it'll be the Peer Gynt were using now. I've noticed a slight area of what looks like rot in the point where each leaf comes together at the base of the bud, and I suspect this is the problem. |
Oh for Tesco's sprouts
"Trevor" wrote in message . com... "Mikey" wrote in message ... Bob Hobden wrote: "Trevor" wrote ... I have to agree with my wife. My home grown sprouts taste dreadful compared with Tesco's. Sprouts are my favourite veg, but not these. Where can I have gone wrong? Sprouts are the only veg I ever grow non organically. I find I have to give the caterpillars a blast in July otherwise when we get back from hols there'll be none left. Probably just a difference in variety, what varieties did you grow? We usually grow Trafalgar and Icarus (both from T & M) Were yours bitter to the taste? (old fashioned varieties were) or is it just that they actually taste of something? ...also do you wait for a frost? It's not bitterness, and I did start using them in early Nov when we were getting daytime temps regularly above 15 C. I thought they might be better after frost, but we have had many many frosts and it hasn't changed things. The taste hints to me of some kind of insect activity rather than a chemical or taste in the plant itself. As for variety, well I'm no saint at record keeping. I choose two varieties each year from the Organic Gardening Catalogue. One for Nov-Dec and one late. I definitely grow Peer gynt, because I read this was the last year it would be available. Just looking at their website, it looks like it'll be the Peer Gynt were using now. I've noticed a slight area of what looks like rot in the point where each leaf comes together at the base of the bud, and I suspect this is the problem. Can the cabbage white caterpillars leave a taste in the plant? BTW how do farmers grow acres of the blooming things? How do THEY keep the caterpillars off? Sprays presumably? Just off to have some Tesco sprouts, first in many weeks, so an interesting test. |
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Oh for Tesco's sprouts
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from Rusty Hinge 2 contains these words: The message from "Rupert" contains these words: Results: -- Not bad really. Cucumber about the size of a sausage but tasted just like cucumber. OK - try growing them under polythene cloches at the very least. IME last season was *NOT* good for cucumbers, even under glass. Tomatoes --excellent yield and tasted of buga all. Most commercial varieties (especially Moneymaker) do taste of SFA. Try Ailsa Craig, Shirley or Alicante, in that order of (my) preference. Some of the so-called 'vine tomatoes' also have good flavour, but I couldn't specify a variety. -- Rusty My cucs were fantastic Rusty. Burpless tasty green and I had 10 plants (first time I`ve grown em) and I lost count of the number we got off em. Once they got going they were as prolific as the courgettes. Tomatos were a dead loss though. Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
Oh for Tesco's sprouts
No answer to my sprout dilemma then? Had to tuck into them Tesco beauties
tonite! |
Oh for Tesco's sprouts
"Trevor" wrote in message
. com... No answer to my sprout dilemma then? Had to tuck into them Tesco beauties tonite! So did we :-)) Bloomin' good aint they? Mike |
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