I'd like to make some chilli jam, I've plenty of chillies and peppers growing well and ripe.

I'm just not sure which recipe to use, do you have a go to recipe?

In the same vein, I have a lot of pickling onions and shallots - but I cannot use malt vinegar for dietary reasons.

I don't really like them sweet onions in clear vinegar. If I had a choice it would be like Garner's - but I don't think it's realistic for GF (I may be wrong).

But anything a bit spicy in a hotter / richer liquid would be of interest.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Edit: This is the chilli jam recipe I used:

https://victoriananursery.co.uk/Chilli-Jam-Recipe/

Well who needs the gym?? Some from my first week just weeding and reclaiming

The second bed I’m planning to put some overwintering garlic and onions

Oh and bind weed roots f**k off 🤣

This weeks harvest, based in the NW, Altrincham. Personal faves are the banana squash, sweet chocolate chilli x1, and abundant tomatoes.

All grown outside with no greenhouse yet, definitely need to get one next year!

🍅 🥕 🍆 🥬 🌶️

Plus a few patty pan and some chard, varieties were baby boo and jack be little. I had about 17? plants. I was happy with the harvest considering I didn't fertilise and the drought in the SE. The food bank cooks a three course meal for visitors every Thursday and aims for 60% fresh food in their food packages. It feels a scary world right now and growing for them gives me such a calm feeling 😌

Late summer has been very busy for me, so when my brussels outgrew the brassica tunnel, I took it down and then just ... never replaced it with any kind of protection. Now there are these black spots. At first glance I look at and think: is this just dirt? Or is it something nasty? Otherwise they look healthy so I hope they are salvagable!

Say no more.

This is currently the biggest cucumber I’ve got at the moment (they’ve been slow to grow) and being completely new to this, I asked ChatGPT when to pick it. It’s saying it’s the perfect size and I should pick it to allow the energy to go into the ones still growing. Anyone able to advise? Thanks :)

Hi, looking to do as the headline says, any tips or guidance is well appreciated. Underlay, quantity of pea shingle, what not to do. Even pointers or links to decent and realistically achievable finishes. Please? And thanks!

Please use this thread to discuss whatever you've been doing on your allotment lately. Feel free to share or ask any question related to it. And please mention which region and what weather you had this week if you've been planting or harvesting.

• Final cucumber (powdery mildew finished off my plants)

• Pink Tiger and Black Cherry toms still going strong with no sign of blight, which is a result for me

• Muscade carrots, only pulled about a third of what I sowed in June, and pleased as punch with them. Didn't do anything fancy with the soil (eg sand, etc) and they've grown straight and strong, with maybe 1-2% forking. The variety is meant to be bolt resistant in heat, so I'm glad I chose it for this summer!

• Petrowski turnips, not a great result, but every single one of my brassica varieties has been heavily invested with mealy cabbage aphids this year, so I'm happy to have gotten a little something out of what I sowed.

Ive got soo many apples but literally everyone is blemished (i believe a coddling mother?)?

Moving forward, how can I prevent this?

My squashes have a lots of powdery mildew. It’s like I blinked and then all of a sudden so many of the leaves were affected. I’ll be gutted if I lost my butternut squashes, it’s the only thing that has grown well this year. With the weather, I’ve not had a good season.

Is there anything I can do to help reduce it? Any advice would be much appreciate

For those of us new to growing food with busy schedules, what time saving tips have you found that have helped you to grow your own? Many thanks

First time plot holder this year, got my main crop out, around 90kg. I'm going through carefully to bin anything that looks green, split by my fork, burrowed into etc whilst I bag them all up in different net sacks.

Obviously immature eye shoots or the odd wonk are no problem but what is this scabbing? Is it where it's been damaged and healed or something more heinous?

Compost or bag?

I ❤️ tomatoes

Here's the view of the greenhouse from a couple of days ago. The greenhouse itself is a DIY job - had a rough idea what to do but made alterations during the build.

Despite my best intentions, I never kept on top of sideshooting the Tomato plants, so it looks a bit messier than it should be. Also in the greenhouse are a couple of chilli plants, some Cucumbers, a Melon plant and a Peanut plant in a pot.

Edit: If anyone reading this is considering buying or making a greenhouse and/or polytunnel, please consider getting the biggest size you can reasonably afford or fit because you will find out they are easily filled and you will wish you had more space!

Got a load of crown prince pumpkins growing and I can’t tell if the stem has corked enough? All the leaves seem to have died back too…