July Allotment Tour | Onion harvest

[@TheGeek365]

Everything is looking great Conor, you have a plot to be proud of!

[@hopeitgrows2892]

Thanks! Much appreciated.

[@lyonheart84]

Very impressed by the onions conor 👍, and i thought they liked sunshine to mature lol

[@hopeitgrows2892]

Thanks Brett. Maybe I'll see the cool, rainy summer more reflected in the taste! 😅🌿

[@grahamrdyer6322]

Wow your set grown onions are looking good as are the Figs, 2024 the year of the Slug.

[@hopeitgrows2892]

Thanks! I could have left them in a bit longer, but slugs and snails ate most of the foliage 😅

[@MyFriendsKitchen]

You must be so proud of your allotment I think parsnips are best harvested after a frost, the frost brings out more sweetness. If you're picking yours soon you can peel, chop and freeze them to replicate the frost sweetening, cook them from frozen. Noticed a few tomato plants growing out of my mums compost bin today, I think they be supermarket tomatoes that have seeded, we've potted them and see how they'll turn out. I'm sure you can grow the seeds from supermarket tomatoes and you get a better quality of tomato than you bought.

[@hopeitgrows2892]

Thanks! I'll have a think about keeping the parsnips in then, though I'm worried the longer they're in ground, the more chance pests have at getting them! Good luck with the tomatoes 🌿

[@PeterEntwistle]

Those strawberries were a great size Conor! My biggest ones were like half that size lol 😂. It's been a slow start for the bananas this year, they are all a bit behind where they were last year. I'm hoping it stays warmer over the next couple of months so they can put on some decent growth 🤞

[@hopeitgrows2892]

Thanks Peter. Unfortunately I have to bag every individual strawberry in order to get them to ripen without getting eaten, which takes a long time! But they are reaching a good size 🙌🌿

[@PeterEntwistle]

@@hopeitgrows2892 Yeah, I've had quite a few of my strawberries eaten by slugs and snails before I got a chance to pick them.