Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

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Columba Jul 2021 9:59pm, 19 Jul 2021 21,183 posts	0 Columba Similar experience with foxgloves. Got some in multi-colours several years ago, since when pinky-purple ones have been popping up all over the garden. Including the front garden, though the originals were in the back. Packet of cornflower seeds, claimed to be all blue but turned out to include pink and white ones.
Ocelot Spleens Jul 2021 10:19pm, 19 Jul 2021 31,381 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens Shallot and onion harvest underway. Broad Beans all.done, a few peas left. Courgettes going in flowering already. Experimental carrot crop going in too...late but might work out.
Hanneke Jul 2021 10:44pm, 19 Jul 2021 76,673 posts	0 Hanneke I picked 4 courgettes yesterday
alpenrose Jul 2021 1:37pm, 20 Jul 2021 51,626 posts	0 alpenrose Foxgloves are biennials so what you sow this year will flower next year.
stilldreaming Jul 2021 7:24pm, 20 Jul 2021 687 posts	0 stilldreaming Bit late to this thread, but picked first batch of blackcurrants today. Not enough to make jam, but nice stewed up and eaten with ice cream 😋 Tatton Hall RHS Flower Show tomorrow. It's going to be hot and I can't decide what to wear 🤔
Snail Jul 2021 11:53pm, 20 Jul 2021 483 posts	0 Snail A cakeload of redcurrants picked before the blackbirds found them. Hopefully another batch later in the week
Hanneke Jul 2021 11:54pm, 20 Jul 2021 76,687 posts	0 Hanneke Do you make a cake with them Snail?
Snail Jul 2021 5:03pm, 21 Jul 2021 484 posts	0 Snail Certainly do. My mother is from Southern Germany and I always associate them with my great aunt baking "Träubleskuchen" when we visited in our summer holidays and stayed with my grandmother and her sister and would have afternoon "Kaffee und Kuchen" (although I didn't like coffee in those days) when friends/relatives visited. Although as a kid, this seemed to be almost every day! My job was using the electric whisk to make "Schlagsahne" - (a vanilla/chantilly whipped cream). That said the cake we make now is a much simpler version and no whipped cream otherwise I would need to do a lot more running!
Hanneke Jul 2021 6:25pm, 21 Jul 2021 76,700 posts	0 Hanneke Oh! Can I have the recipe please? We also have "slagroom" in the Netherlands! Much better than whipped cream!
Ocelot Spleens Jul 2021 6:34pm, 21 Jul 2021 31,421 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens I looked up Träubleskuchen, looks very nice, there are currant bushes in the community Orchard!