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Probably the penultimate harvest of tomatoes from the greenhouse

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Fried off three cloves of crushed garlic and two diced onions then stirred through the tomatoes

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Seasoned with salt, pepper and mixed dried herbs

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About 1/2 hour in the oven at 220

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Then leave to cool, transfer to a pan and whizz with the blender

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Nice thick very flavoursome sauce

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Good for pizza bases, pasta or whatever and can be thinned down, if required with water or stock
 
How are people finding their fruits this year?

Strawberries - poor yield.
Raspberries - excellent yield, excellent flavour, good size.
Pears - none, trees dropped fruit early in the season.
Apples - excellent yield, weirdly 1 of the six trees produced only 3 fruits the rest are bursting, excellent flavour, small
Blueberries - poor yield (think the birds may have helped with this), excellent flavour, good size.
Blackcurrants - none!
 
Dis86 said:
How are people finding their fruits this year?

Strawberries - poor yield.
Raspberries - excellent yield, excellent flavour, good size.
Pears - none, trees dropped fruit early in the season.
Apples - excellent yield, weirdly 1 of the six trees produced only 3 fruits the rest are bursting, excellent flavour, small
Blueberries - poor yield (think the birds may have helped with this), excellent flavour, good size.
Blackcurrants - none!
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Strawberries - Nothing and that was also reported the same from the local allotment.
Raspberry - Couldn't keep up with it, fruit was nice all through the ripening stage.
Blackcurrants - Nope.
Passiflora - non stop flowering + fruit.
Wild berries - Sloes and the like I missed by a whole month.
 
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My new lawn is a bit bumpy. My fault as I didn't really flatten carefully enough before laying the turf. Not sure if there's much I can do now apart from start again...
 
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neocon said:


My new lawn is a bit bumpy. My fault as I didn't really flatten carefully enough before laying the turf. Not sure if there's much I can do now apart from start again...
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Looks alright from here. Just stomp the bumps when its wet... (over the course of your adult life, not like a specific activity)
 
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It can be fixed albeit, like most gardening, things will take some time.

Roller and top dressing with a lawn level over a couple of years will sort most things... A more drastic, but quicker way, is to do the same but over seed the areas where the top dressing completely covers the existing grass (the low points) and let the new seed grow..

It'll look crap for a few weeks then it'll recover.
 
Richie said:
It can be fixed albeit, like most gardening, things will take some time.

Roller and top dressing with a lawn level over a couple of years will sort most things... A more drastic, but quicker way, is to do the same but over seed the areas where the top dressing completely covers the existing grass (the low points) and let the new seed grow..

It'll look crap for a few weeks then it'll recover.
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I guess it's probably better to do that in the spring when it starts growing quickly?
 
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My robot mower has kept the lawn in pretty good shape this winter. Time to rest it now. The main projects are controlling the moss and keeping the trees tidy.

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Nice. First I heard of a robot mower. How does it deal with all the cut grass? Does it leave it there or take it to a designated point?
 
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