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Growing veg to bring to the Christmas table

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  • 26-10-2019 7:56pm
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    paddylonglegs
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    Hi,

    My family are invited to my sisters for Christmas dinner. I’d like to be able to bring some veg to have for the table, I think it would be a nice touch if we had grown it ourselves.

    Is it too late to grow anything at this point? Should I have planned this during the spring or autumn?


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Late for the old reliables. We'll have home grown carrots, celery, potatoes, and Brussel sprouts for Christmas. But we're cropping some already.

    Some winter greens and fast maturing carrots can be grown in a greenhouse,


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    uck51js9zml2yt
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    We had dinner yesterday. All my own veg and I know the field the beef came from.had the calf in my own field last winter for a few weeks :)

    Too late to be planting anything for this year outside.


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    bizidea
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    What carrot varieties would you reccomend for sowing


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    GrumpyMe
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    paddylonglegs wrote: »
    Hi,

    My family are invited to my sisters for Christmas dinner. I’d like to be able to bring some veg to have for the table, I think it would be a nice touch if we had grown it ourselves.

    Is it too late to grow anything at this point? Should I have planned this during the spring or autumn?




    https://tinyurl.com/y53ewmds


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    paddylonglegs
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    https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/grow-your-own-christmas-dinner/

    Great post here, very helpful and looks like it’ll be the following Christmas that I’ll get to do this


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    Graces7
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    Being very limited in many ways here, when my peas and broad beans were ripe I froze a package and tied it up with red ribbon.. I should have a few potatoes and kale in abundance.


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    macraignil
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    Watching a gardening program on TV last night and they suggested when harvesting your potatoes to simply place a few in damp sand in a old biscuit box and close it up and bury it in the garden soil. They then said if it is dug up at Christmas the potatoes should be in the same condition as when they were put in the tin. I guess the soil is cool enough at this time of year to act like a fridge, the damp sand would stop them from drying out and the tin keeps out any pests that might eat them.


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    Hocus Focus
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    GrumpyMe wrote: »
    https://tinyurl.com/y53ewmds


    What do the numbers represent, in that list?


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    GrumpyMe
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    Hocus Focus wrote: »
    What do the numbers represent, in that list?
    See header on page
    Dark bar is germination time lighter bar is growing time
    Of course there are so many variables they can only be indicative


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