Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

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3M (aka MarkyMarkMark) Dec 2022 6:11pm, 3 Dec 2022 19,826 posts	0 3M (aka MarkyMarkMark) Last night's frost seems to have polished off the remaining flower heads! All drooping and scorched looking. Roll on Spring!
Hanneke Dec 2022 6:50pm, 3 Dec 2022 96,157 posts	0 Hanneke My outdoor self seeded tomatoes have finally gone to mush. I picked off the last ripe ones earlier in the week 😱😱😱
D2 Dec 2022 7:26pm, 4 Dec 2022 12,847 posts	0 D2 I picked some raspberries today!
GimmeMedals Dec 2022 12:50pm, 23 Dec 2022 23,812 posts	0 GimmeMedals I've dug up the parsnips today. I was thinking they might be full of grubs so needed to check they are ok for Christmas dinner. All grub-free The big one is pretty big
EvilPixie Dec 2022 1:16pm, 23 Dec 2022 38,746 posts	0 EvilPixie Impressive
Boffin Dec 2022 1:35pm, 23 Dec 2022 236 posts	0 Boffin That is one enormous parsnip 👍 ...reminds me of a childhood story I think I liked... either that or it was the only story read to me🤔 .."The Enormous Turnip" seem to remember an entire family trying to pull it up including a field mouse?? 😂
Angus Clydesdale Dec 2022 2:02pm, 23 Dec 2022 25,829 posts	0 Angus Clydesdale We've still got an original copy of the Ladybird book telling the story of The Enormous Turnip. It's quite tatty now, but I think it's older than I am!
Ocelot Spleens Dec 2022 2:04pm, 23 Dec 2022 35,907 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens The 10 days of frosts did their work. Cabbage, carrots and Pak Choi doing well....
GimmeMedals Dec 2022 2:11pm, 23 Dec 2022 23,813 posts	0 GimmeMedals I thought of The Enormous Turnip story when we dug up this whopper Carrots and sprouts didn't make it through the summer, due to brassica eating bugs and going on holiday in a drought so the carrots were only big enough for a doll's house kitchen (the same as the parsnips that I sowed in the early summer).
Columba Dec 2022 6:18pm, 23 Dec 2022 22,064 posts	0 Columba Boffin - my children had The Enormous Turnip. You're right about the mouse. It isn't until the mouse finally adds his modicum of strength (to the two adults, the two chidren, the dog and the cat) that they finally get the turnip out of the ground.