Posted by David WE Roberts on July 29, 2010, 2:11 pm
Lovely, large and tasty.
Very very healthy.
Special offer.
Tell you what, squire, do you two for one.
Cutting me own throat, but how about three for one?
Look, look.....free sample, how about that?
You're a hard man, I can see that.
Best and final offer, here's £5 if you take this bag full.
What, bloke down the road offered you £10?
[A bit like trying to rehome kittens at the moment....]
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Posted by David in Normandy on July 29, 2010, 2:38 pm
On 29/07/2010 20:11, David WE Roberts wrote:
> Lovely, large and tasty.
> Very very healthy.
> Special offer.
> Tell you what, squire, do you two for one.
> Cutting me own throat, but how about three for one?
> Look, look.....free sample, how about that?
> You're a hard man, I can see that.
> Best and final offer, here's £5 if you take this bag full.
> What, bloke down the road offered you £10?
> [A bit like trying to rehome kittens at the moment....]
Sounds like you are in the market for some courgettes ;-) I'll have a
van load delivered to your house tomorrow for £1.
It's either glut or none with 'em. The freezer is already full of
chopped frozen courgettes to make soup with over winter. Blink and
you've got a full sized naval torpedo growing.
Last year mosaic virus stopped them all dead in their track after
harvesting a handful. Overrun with them this year already.
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Posted by Christina Websell on July 29, 2010, 2:59 pm
> On 29/07/2010 20:11, David WE Roberts wrote:
>> Lovely, large and tasty.
>> Very very healthy.
>> Special offer.
>>
>> Tell you what, squire, do you two for one.
>>
>> Cutting me own throat, but how about three for one?
>>
>> Look, look.....free sample, how about that?
>>
>> You're a hard man, I can see that.
>> Best and final offer, here's £5 if you take this bag full.
>>
>> What, bloke down the road offered you £10?
>>
>> [A bit like trying to rehome kittens at the moment....]
>>
> Sounds like you are in the market for some courgettes ;-) I'll have a van
> load delivered to your house tomorrow for £1.
> It's either glut or none with 'em. The freezer is already full of chopped
> frozen courgettes to make soup with over winter. Blink and you've got a
> full sized naval torpedo growing.
> Last year mosaic virus stopped them all dead in their track after
> harvesting a handful. Overrun with them this year already.
I'm up for some in the post ;-), mine failed (they always do) through slugs
or something else, I know not what.
Tina
Posted by David in Normandy on July 29, 2010, 3:45 pm
On 29/07/2010 20:59, Christina Websell wrote:
>> On 29/07/2010 20:11, David WE Roberts wrote:
>>> Lovely, large and tasty.
>>> Very very healthy.
>>> Special offer.
>>>
>>> Tell you what, squire, do you two for one.
>>>
>>> Cutting me own throat, but how about three for one?
>>>
>>> Look, look.....free sample, how about that?
>>>
>>> You're a hard man, I can see that.
>>> Best and final offer, here's £5 if you take this bag full.
>>>
>>> What, bloke down the road offered you £10?
>>>
>>> [A bit like trying to rehome kittens at the moment....]
>>>
>>
>> Sounds like you are in the market for some courgettes ;-) I'll have a van
>> load delivered to your house tomorrow for £1.
>>
>> It's either glut or none with 'em. The freezer is already full of chopped
>> frozen courgettes to make soup with over winter. Blink and you've got a
>> full sized naval torpedo growing.
>>
>> Last year mosaic virus stopped them all dead in their track after
>> harvesting a handful. Overrun with them this year already.
> I'm up for some in the post ;-), mine failed (they always do) through slugs
> or something else, I know not what.
> Tina
OK, I'll send you fifty or so as an email attachment to keep you going
for a while. ;-)
You might be less keen if you knew what magic liquid feed I've given
them this year! I've been watering the vegetables with pee diluted to
around 1/20 and I've never had such a huge crop of courgettes,
mange-tout and potatoes. Unfortunately the brassicas are thus far a
disaster - the broccoli has had only tiny heads and these have run to
seed very quickly. Probably due to the lack of rain since they had less
hand watering than the other crops.
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Posted by <vicky on July 29, 2010, 6:15 pm
> I'm up for some in the post ;-), mine failed (they always do) through slugs
> or something else, I know not what.
Ooh, looks like we could make a list of people to match up, gluts to
failures! I think I should get the poster from Cambridge unles anyone's
nearer him ... who's up for delivering their glut to Tina ... ?
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> Very very healthy.
> Special offer.
> Tell you what, squire, do you two for one.
> Cutting me own throat, but how about three for one?
> Look, look.....free sample, how about that?
> You're a hard man, I can see that.
> Best and final offer, here's £5 if you take this bag full.
> What, bloke down the road offered you £10?
> [A bit like trying to rehome kittens at the moment....]