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Post by artisans on Aug 5, 2014 10:32:51 GMT 2
It's been a strange year for some vegetables in Roda with some almost failing, and others flourishing. It seems that it's generally a tough one for tomatoes and many pests & diseases are having a field day. For us, apart from tons of squashes, there have been one or two stars. The cucamelon is thriving and in full production at the moment and we'll grow more plants next year. There is also another beauty on the way - just flowering now. For many years, Eftichia has been asking me to grow this and this time I put in just six plants - do you know what it is? First, the cucamelons picked this morning to enjoy with a salad later, then the most beautiful of flowers.
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kaz
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Post by kaz on Aug 5, 2014 15:06:12 GMT 2
Marrow?
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Post by artisans on Aug 5, 2014 17:02:56 GMT 2
Marrow flowers are big, yellow and blousy kaz - these ones are very delicate and they are a soft cream with a maroon centre. Any ideas?
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Post by kathwebber on Aug 5, 2014 17:28:10 GMT 2
going by the name I'd guess they are a cross between a melon and cucumber!
regards, Kath.
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Post by artisans on Aug 5, 2014 17:43:12 GMT 2
I think I've confused everyone, Kath - the cucamelon is very much like a tiny cucmber with a hint of lime ... very moist and crisp. The second pic is the flower of an entirely different vegetable and it's that one that I want.
Apologies, Steve
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Post by kathwebber on Aug 5, 2014 19:27:47 GMT 2
looks a little like rhubarb
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Post by artisans on Aug 5, 2014 20:01:01 GMT 2
I wish we could grow rhubarb here, Kath - not sure that anyone does. The stalks in the photo are thinner than that anyway - it's something a bit more tropical.
Steve
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Post by lisydaly on Aug 6, 2014 10:55:21 GMT 2
Yes, you can grow rhubarb there Steve. A friend of ours (who used to live in the Villa Olga) grew it for years. He gave me a crown which I then grew in Ag. Martinas. I dug it up when we left for France, replanted it there and it continued giving good crops. I left it when we moved to Ireland. I think you will have to get the rhubarb crown in the UK and take it over with you - that's what our friend had done. Same principle as UK - for an early crop, cover the crown with a 'pot' pot and keep it cool and in the dark - good tender early shoots, or just do what I did - let it do its own thing. I never saw rhubarb crowns for sale in Corfu, which doesn't mean there aren't any - just never saw them. Never saw gooseberries either so had to wait 'til we got to France to grow those.
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kayjay
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Post by kayjay on Aug 6, 2014 11:59:59 GMT 2
Steve, remember that program "Corfu- a tale of two islands"? I'm sure there was a british guy living in Nymphes who grew lots of fruit and vegetables and sold some of it to the supermarket. He had rhubarb growing in his plot.
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Post by Gil on Aug 6, 2014 19:11:00 GMT 2
Rhubarb. I see that lisydaly has let it out of the bag that there may be a crown of Rhubarb at Villa Olga. You've got enough to do without going to knick ours.
Only Joking Steve you are welcome to come and see if it's still there but we didn't notice one when we were there but who knows I'm sure you will.
Gil
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Post by artisans on Aug 6, 2014 20:24:40 GMT 2
That's good news about rhubarb, Wendy - even better news for Gil & Sue. I did once buy a gooseberry plant at Lidl in Corfu Town. It survived for three years, produced one tiny fruit, and then died! People here do also grow raspberries - Golden Fall variety - I would like to try those.
Anyway, my flower is not rhubarb even though it does also produce oxalic acid ... so what is it? I'd grow it again just for the flower. Clue - the name in Greece is the same as its name in India. I thought the flower would give it away ...
Steve
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Post by artisans on Aug 6, 2014 22:04:19 GMT 2
Maybe this angle will help with identifying the flower - very common in Greece.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2014 11:24:45 GMT 2
Hi Steve, I am going to hazardous a guess that it is the flower of the Eggplant, Aubergine, or similar.
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Post by artisans on Aug 7, 2014 17:32:39 GMT 2
Aubergine flowers are attractive, Chris, but they are much smaller and a bluey-lavender in colour.
Steve
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Post by artisans on Aug 10, 2014 20:19:02 GMT 2
The flower is so bright that it's overexposed in this pic - but it does show the vegetable lurking in the undergrowth, which we will be eating in a few minutes' time.
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