Growing my own..........

[Andy]

Vegetables with the kids!
Got 2 plastering/cement tubs with potatoes and onions outside.
Inside the conservatory (which is as hot as a greenhouse) we have tomatoes,cucumber and carrots germinating in trays.
Hopefully they will work! lol
Kids enjoyed it anyway:)

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Anybody else grow veg??

[turbojolt]

I've got herbs growing on the window sill and use to grow tomatoes and chilies, tomatoes are easy to grow and taste loads better then you can buy at the supermarket

[Mike]

Mike senior has got some rhubarb & strawberries on the grow. Thats about it really.

[Andy]

I've got herbs growing on the window sill and use to grow tomatoes and chilies, tomatoes are easy to grow and taste loads better then you can buy at the supermarket
Tomatoes from supermarket are bleeding tasteless,seriously,they have been for years.
What herbs are they?

[swedge]

Mike senior has got some rhubarb & strawberries on the grow. Thats about it really.

When I was a kid I used to eat rhubarb out the garden with a poke of sugar

Absolutely hate the stuf now

[Mike]

When I was a kid I used to eat rhubarb out the garden with a poke of sugar

Absolutely hate the stuf now

I used to rob it from the farmers field over the back of the house lol along with all manner of other vegetables lol

[swedge]

He ever chase you with his rice gun haha our farmer did we used to go crabbing for apples too

You ever been cow tipping? Haha

[turbojolt]

http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr119/turbojolt/IMAG0381.jpg

Chives, parsley, basil and tyme, the tyme went ****ie so chucked it as did one of the basil plants and the other basil isn't looking good, this is my first time trying to grow herbs and its not working out great tbh

going to try and grow loads of tomatoes this year as I love them lol hopefully blitz a load up in to sauces to freeze and use as and when i want them

[Pete]

I'm growing something for some bloke i met the other day. I get free accommodation in a house with all bills paid for.

Just now allowed to answer the door lol

[Andy]

TJ-My local garden centre was selling a kit for £2-included a trough,compost and the seeds.

[Andy]

I'm growing something for some bloke i met the other day. I get free accommodation in a house with all bills paid for.

Just now allowed to answer the door lol

Pete isnt a vietnamese name?!

[Mike]

Pete isnt a vietnamese name?!

Mr Kung Poh Chikan?

[turbojolt]

Mate I'm that sad about home grow tomatoes Im looking at drying out the seeds from good batches and reusing them year on year lol just need to settle somewhere first

[Tanya.]

I'm attempting to grow strawberries. Wouldn't mind growing some cherry tomatoes.

[mowgli]

tj, the vast majority of tomato varieties are hybrids, and their seeds will not be much good for growing new plants from.

mind you, cherry tomatoes grown in a tub in your garden are by far the nicest

[Benn]

I bought a 50p pepper plate from Tesco, thought it would die. In the pot it came in i got 3 peppers on it, now in a big pot its bout 2feet tall, with 8 big green peppers on it at the mo.. They smell really strong too.

[TeddyThom]

I've got herbs growing on the window sill and use to grow tomatoes and chilies, tomatoes are easy to grow and taste loads better then you can buy at the supermarket

Bit brazen no??

[John]

Good work! We (read the small one) has some strawbs, toms, carrots, lettuce and pots growing. Strawbs and pots doing good so far!

[Andy]

Pics John!!
And everyone elses!!

[turbojolt]

Fair play getting your kids into it does it help getting them to eat the get aswell

[Edd]

I was going to ask if anyone grew there own other day, thought I would get shot down tbh lol

Since buying the new house last year me and the mrs have slowly built this, used to be waist height brambles and bine weed

http://i499.photobucket.com/albums/rr359/EDDRODGERS/2012-05-15085303.jpg

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Got most stuff growing, tomatoes, salads, potatoes, peppers, onions, beans, asparagus, strawberries, raspberries etc etc

Saves money and good fun, still got another greenhouse to design and build

[Hobbit]

Nice set up Edd :) we have 12 healthy chilli plants. My Dad has toms, salad, asparagus, beans, plus he's got some young fruit tree's.

[Andy]

very nicely done edd!

[Tanya.]

That looks fab Edd.


I can't wait to have a proper garden and get growing stuff.

[Alex J]

i was waiting to see a grow room in the loft when i looked lol

[turbojolt]

Very nice edd


But growing salad :P

[Hobbit]

This is my Dads set up.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p72/wiggardywoo/20120515_150236.jpg

Just some old scaffolding boards.

[John]

Potato!

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l240/tooleater16v/c9ec4791.jpg

Strawbs, rest of the stuff is in my ma's greenhouse

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l240/tooleater16v/d2b7b752.jpg

[Andy]

Good stuff!

[Jack]

My dad does a lot of growing his own veg.

I'm just lazy.

[autoworksnovasport]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkAb2ym2Y4M

skip the ad ;)

[Angus Closier]

Nice set up Edd :) we have 12 healthy chilli plants. My Dad has toms, salad, asparagus, beans, plus he's got some young fruit tree's.


Like Chillies?


I have about 10 types growing at the moment. Ranging from very mild Jalapeño (2500 - 3000SHU) to One of the hottest in the world. (Dorset Naga Up to 1,598,227 SHU)

Also not much else we don't grow here....

[Jon_nova1]

sorry to interrupt the conversation, but shouldn't you all be talking about something manly...at the very least how you ate raw chilli's you stole for a £10 bet? what would the rest of the car enthusiast community think it they heard about this? lol

[Angus Closier]

sorry to interrupt the conversation, but shouldn't you all be talking about something manly...at the very least how you ate raw chilli's you stole for a £10 bet? what would the rest of the car enthusiast community think it they heard about this? lol

I will give you £10 to eat one of my Dorset naga's

I watched a bloke (Typical hard chilli eater) be put in hospital after eating a whole Dorset Naga at The Dorset chilli festival!

[mowgli]

so 2 people attended this year then??? lol lol

[turbojolt]

I will give you £10 to eat one of my Dorset naga's

I watched a bloke (Typical hard chilli eater) be put in hospital after eating a whole Dorset Naga at The Dorset chilli festival!

I will give it a bash lol

[Jon_nova1]

£10 and a pint of milk? lol

[Angus Closier]

so 2 people attended this year then??? lol lol

lol


More people than you would think!

[Angus Closier]

I will give it a bash lol

Deal...

[Pete]

be ready to film it and stick it on youtube. You've been framed and Rude Tube will pay good £ so see TJ crying lol

[mowgli]

i would too

[Angus Closier]

be ready to film it and stick it on youtube. You've been framed and Rude Tube will pay good £ so see TJ crying lol

I think it would be more than crying....

People joke about it, However I love hot food but I could make hundreds of very hot meals from one of these chillies

[turbojolt]

Are they a chilli that adds taste like a scotch bonnet or are they just pure heat mate?

I would attempt it in exchange for the seeds to try and grow them my self lol how long you been growing.them?

[Pistol Pete]

TJ, check this out....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale

A dorset naga ranges from around 600,000 SHU to 1,000,000 SHU. In other words mother trucking hot!!

EDIT: for reference, a scotch bonnet is around 100,000 SHU to 350,000 SHU

[mowgli]

i've always used my own scale on chillis... it is based on my big sisters inability to actually cook....when she was in her teens she used to think she could make a really good chilli con carne.. but carnage was more like it.. my mum always bought schwartz cruched chilli in jars, but always swapped the little plastic lid with the small holes in across, well, big sis just opened a new jar & shook the complete contents in.. i took one bite, & ran outside and spat it out, then attempted to make my mouth stop hurting.. this involved a large tub of icecream, ice cubes, water & anything else i could think of, i lost the use of my taste buds for about a week..

meanwhile, my stubborn sister claimed it was fine & kept eating it, i have never seen sweat steaming off someones neck before, or since,

[Jack]

I can't be doing with hot food; I don't mind jalapeños but thats about as hot as I'll go.

One of the Man vs Food challenges sees Adam having something that has the ghost chilli treatment, always makes for amusing watching lol

[turbojolt]

I could be wrong but I think the ghost chilli is what Americans call the naga

[Jack]

Yep

[edit] as in yep, ghost chilli = naga

[turbojolt]

Yep I'm wrong or yep I'm right trying to find it on Google but its loading slow lol

[Angus Closier]

i've always used my own scale on chillis... it is based on my big sisters inability to actually cook....when she was in her teens she used to think she could make a really good chilli con carne.. but carnage was more like it.. my mum always bought schwartz cruched chilli in jars, but always swapped the little plastic lid with the small holes in across, well, big sis just opened a new jar & shook the complete contents in.. i took one bite, & ran outside and spat it out, then attempted to make my mouth stop hurting.. this involved a large tub of icecream, ice cubes, water & anything else i could think of, i lost the use of my taste buds for about a week..

meanwhile, my stubborn sister claimed it was fine & kept eating it, i have never seen sweat steaming off someones neck before, or since,

You should eat rice or other starchy (sp) food, this brings the heat down in your mouth.

beyond popular belief Icecream Don't help much lol

[Angus Closier]

Are they a chilli that adds taste like a scotch bonnet or are they just pure heat mate?

I would attempt it in exchange for the seeds to try and grow them my self lol how long you been growing.them?

Once again it depends on how hot you like things, I could make some thing that to me is not that hot (thus actually being able to taste it) but mowgli might hate it and think it has no taste. Its all a matter of your definition of hot!

But yes they are silly hot and no I would never even dream of eating one, Last time I cooked with one i just wiped it around the oil in the pan.(this was enough lol)

A few years...

Got a few on the go, Like to make chutneys etc

[mowgli]

angus, i quite like some hot foods, but i am not a fan of hot for the sake of it, as in most peoples feeble attempts at a chilli con carnage.... a bloke i know always takes a pot of his famous c-c-c to every bbq/party/bash thru the summer, and its consistently shoite. my kids can make one with more flavour & depth, than he ever could.

[turbojolt]

I love making chilli when using mince meat I tend to make it really hot but it I use proper beef or lamb I hold back to let the favours of the meat come thru, love the stuff

[Angus Closier]

angus, i quite like some hot foods, but i am not a fan of hot for the sake of it, as in most peoples feeble attempts at a chilli con carnage.... a bloke i know always takes a pot of his famous c-c-c to every bbq/party/bash thru the summer, and its consistently shoite. my kids can make one with more flavour & depth, than he ever could.

But what most people who are not big chilli eaters fail to see is that somthing you define as tasteless due to it being too hot will have flavor for me.

There is a point in which too much IS too much even for a hot food lover like me!

Learning which spices warm the body is also key to cooking. There are many other spices other than the Chilli which give a good warming feeling!

I do understand what you mean but my perception (sp) of too hot will differ from the next person and so will the flavor.

The dorset naga has a very nice Smokey flavor which when used lightly is very tasty! Over use it and you the individual its too hot for will not be able to taste it.

I spent a long time finding chillis which have good taste, Much of them my mum would never touch.

I also know people who just eat hot food for the sake of it, IMO they have missed the point.

[Angus Closier]

I love making chilli when using mince meat I tend to make it really hot but it I use proper beef or lamb I hold back to let the favours of the meat come thru, love the stuff

Try using other spices other than just chillis (you might in which case ignor this) There are a few spices that will complement Lamb mince as well as beef, Don't be afraid to try them.

Cumin goes with lamb better than beef (IMO) for example.

[mowgli]

i have to admit, i love playing with herbs & spices in cooking to release different flavours, i did once have great fun liquidising chillies & putting them into a meat sauce no-body could work out what i'd done, but they loved it.

i think most people's perception of hot chillis is based on tipping into the dodgy kebab house at god knows what o'clock & getting their throat burnt out on their way home... when i was a poor student(i failed) i used to frequent a really good kebab house, and i was the only bloke who asked for a small amount of the chilli sauce... too much just murdered it.

[Angus Closier]

i have to admit, i love playing with herbs & spices in cooking to release different flavours, i did once have great fun liquidising chillies & putting them into a meat sauce no-body could work out what i'd done, but they loved it.

i think most people's perception of hot chillis is based on tipping into the dodgy kebab house at god knows what o'clock & getting their throat burnt out on their way home... when i was a poor student(i failed) i used to frequent a really good kebab house, and i was the only bloke who asked for a small amount of the chilli sauce... too much just murdered it.

Agreed Kebab house chilli sauce can be scary! But thats drunk peoples problem lol

In a strange way different spices seem to warm different parts of the body, always good fun to have a try at new things.

I am not a die hard chilli eater, however I seem to taste farm more (from chilli) than most people.

People tend to stay away from various spices due to lack of knowledge or price however I learnt from trying and spices if purchased from the correct place are very very cheap!

[turbojolt]

I think I've given you the wrong impression I'm a keen cook and I'm by no means a Indian takeaway warrior lol

This is a extremely small amount of spices I keep
http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr119/turbojolt/IMAG0006.jpg

And when it comes to cumin I'm all over it lol
http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr119/turbojolt/IMAG0007.jpg

I'm really interested in these naga chilies and trying to cook with them and wee jury how crazy they are lol

[turbojolt]

I think I've given you the wrong impression I'm a keen cook and I'm by no means a Indian takeaway warrior lol

This is a extremely small amount of spices I keep
http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr119/turbojolt/IMAG0006.jpg

And when it comes to cumin I'm all over it lol
http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr119/turbojolt/IMAG0007.jpg

I'm really interested in these naga chilies and trying to cook with them and wee jury how crazy they are lol

[Angus Closier]

Looks good!

Well I will have to sort some thing out. I have around 40 odd plants so when they start to flower again ( I Only have dried chilli at the moment) I will be sure to send some your way!

[Andy]

See,im one of these who cant handle anything spicy,i never have been able to,so it just tastes red hot-no flavour for me.
Can you up your tolerance like you can to spirits for example? Or have you either got it or not when it comes to hot food??

[mk1nova_rich]

See,im one of these who cant handle anything spicy,i never have been able to,so it just tastes red hot-no flavour for me.
Can you up your tolerance like you can to spirits for example? Or have you either got it or not when it comes to hot food??

I used to be like that when I was younger, couldn't stand anything stronger than a Korma lol I'd be sweating like fook and downing pints of water, but now I love owt with a nice kick to it

Don't get me wrong it seems pointless when its so hot you can't actually enjoy the flavour, but some spices make food so much better.

What we have to remember though is that Indians and so on, use spices to disguise the flavour of off meat so in western cooking where we have much better meats available, killing the natural flavours with excessive spices is daft

[turbojolt]

Yer you can Andy you build up a natural tolerance to it but if you don't enjoy it then there is no point lol

[turbojolt]

I used to be like that when I was younger, couldn't stand anything stronger than a Korma lol I'd be sweating like fook and downing pints of water, but now I love owt with a nice kick to it

Don't get me wrong it seems pointless when its so hot you can't actually enjoy the flavour, but some spices make food so much better.

What we have to remember though is that Indians and so on, use spices to disguise the flavour of off meat so in western cooking where we have much better meats available, killing the natural flavours with excessive spices is daft

What do you think mustard and horseradish was invented to do lol

[mowgli]

What do you think mustard and horseradish was invented to do lol

considering both mustard & horseradish are native plants in the uk, they weren't exactly invented.......they just sort of grew

[Andy]

Both are very nice

[mowgli]

andy, i take it you aren't a fan of 'that foreign muck' then?

[Andy]

What indian stuff etc??
I like some of it yeah,theres a belting thai place in town i used to clean,very nice food.
I just love gammon and mustard with egg and chips lol
Or beef and horseradish sarmies

[turbojolt]

There both spicy tho mate lol

[mowgli]

What indian stuff etc??
I like some of it yeah,theres a belting thai place in town i used to clean,very nice food.
I just love gammon and mustard with egg and chips lol
Or beef and horseradish sarmies

i have a horseradish growing in the garden, every so often i harvest some of the root, and freeze it, then just grate some into a casserole to give it a boost..

[MK999]

What do you think mustard and horseradish was invented to do lol

Be the colour of awesome. lol

[Andy]

There both spicy tho mate lol
I wouldnt call them spicy really,theyre nice,good flavour etc
Some curries ive tried in the past have been lethal

[MK999]

Some curries ive tried in the past have been lethal

Reminds me of a spoon dipped in vindaloo being passed round a table at uni, everyone turning bright red wheezing choking and ordering enough water to solve thames waters issues for a year or two.

[Andy]

Reminds me of a spoon dipped in vindaloo being passed round a table at uni.
Surely you could afford more than one spoon? or was it a game with added kink??

[MK999]

Long table, was about 15+ of us lol Easiest way!

[Pistol Pete]

lol and a vindaloo isnt the hottest!!!!

[MK999]

I'm really not too bothered, I don't go for really hot spicy foods at all, fcuk messing about with anything hotter than that lol I couldn't feel the end of my tongue for an hour or so

[turbojolt]

Vindaloo is larger lout food

[mowgli]

to right, it was invented to take the piss out of drunkards on a saturday night & sell more kingfisher

[turbojolt]

to right, it was invented to take the piss out of drunkards on a saturday night & sell more kingfisher

Omg mowgli agreed with me woop woop lol

[mowgli]

even a busted clock is right every so often

[turbojolt]

even a busted clock is right every so often

Even you can't ruin this magical moment in my life

[mowgli]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4LHLM4WIw0

[Angus Closier]

I used to be like that when I was younger, couldn't stand anything stronger than a Korma lol I'd be sweating like fook and downing pints of water, but now I love owt with a nice kick to it

Don't get me wrong it seems pointless when its so hot you can't actually enjoy the flavour, but some spices make food so much better.

What we have to remember though is that Indians and so on, use spices to disguise the flavour of off meat so in western cooking where we have much better meats available, killing the natural flavours with excessive spices is daft


I Think you are massively wrong here. You can't polish a turd, Rubbish mean is rubbish mean full stop(texture plays a part in this)

We (on our farm) produce meat about as good as it gets IMO, Me using various spices enhances it. Do it wrong and it will ruin it, all about knowing what goes with what.

I will never claim to be an expert however I know how not to ruin food.

[Angus Closier]

I wouldnt call them spicy really,theyre nice,good flavour etc
Some curries ive tried in the past have been lethal

Not all spices have to make your mouth burn, Using correct spices warms the body etc.

Ill education when It comes to "non bland food" is the problem.