I am so pleased that despite the lack of any sort of Summer here in England, I managed to grow a nice collection of
Queensland Blue pumpkins.
Scarecrow very kindly offered to send me some seeds from Australia, as I remember growing them years ago and I just
love the dry, sweet flesh that these Winter squash have. You can see the typical shape has pronounced shoulders.
Do you remember way back in the Summer I was doing silly things to one of my baby pumpkins?
Well, look what happened when it grew up!!
Another late Summer success were these
Conqueror sweetcorn. I planted a second crop about a month after the first, and they have come up trumps! It is a testament to the new varieties of F1 hybrids that are more suited to the unpredictable British climate, that despite the fact that these cobs have been sitting on the stalk for a number of weeks, they were still tender and very sweet!
Boiled for 10 minutes and spread with butter and fresh black pepper! mmmm
Do you remember way back in the Summer I was doing silly things to one of my baby pumpkins?
Well, look what happened when it grew up!!
Another late Summer success were these Conqueror sweetcorn. I planted a second crop about a month after the first, and they have come up trumps! It is a testament to the new varieties of F1 hybrids that are more suited to the unpredictable British climate, that despite the fact that these cobs have been sitting on the stalk for a number of weeks, they were still tender and very sweet!
Boiled for 10 minutes and spread with butter and fresh black pepper! mmmm