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Gardening with Joey

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summerisle said:
Don't know if you have chestnuts in Colombia, but they go rather well with sprouts. There's loads of recipes, here's one :

www.bbc.co.uk

Shredded sprouts with bacon and chestnuts recipe

Sprouts work brilliantly with bacon and chestnuts at Christmas (or any other time!) They're quick to finish and lovely with or without the breadcrumbs.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Thanks, I had never thought of the possibility of cooking sprouts with bacon and this recipe will be one my husband would enjoy.
 
Sassy Colombian said:
How do you have them? Have any good recipes to share?
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Just to clarify, in the UK the term "sprouts" usually refers to brussels sprouts/coles de bruselas that are eaten as a side dish with Sunday roast. The brotes that you are growing we would call bean sprouts although I know you can grow other types (we like to grow rocket/rúcula sprouts). I have no idea what the GOT term fish sprouts means.
 
John BCN said:
Just to clarify, in the UK the term "sprouts" usually refers to brussels sprouts/coles de bruselas that are eaten as a side dish with Sunday roast. The brotes that you are growing we would call bean sprouts although I know you can grow other types (we like to grow rocket/rúcula sprouts). I have no idea what the GOT term fish sprouts means.
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Thanks for clarifying. Here in the US, Brussels Sprouts are also eaten similarly with roast.

Maybe @summerisle can tell us more about the term fish sprouts.

There are the varieties of sprouts that I’m growing.

Radish Sprouts and Mung Bean Sprouts

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I harvested this salad mix sprouts yesterday

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Sassy Colombian said:
Thanks for clarifying. Here in the US, Brussels Sprouts are also eaten similarly with roast.

Maybe @summerisle can tell us more about the term fish sprouts.

There are the varieties of sprouts that I’m growing.

Radish Sprouts and Mung Bean Sprouts

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I harvested this salad mix sprouts yesterday

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Use the search function to be none the wiser vis -a-vis fish sprouts.
These are the sprouts in the recipe. Like tiny compacted cabbages, ish.

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summerisle said:
Use the search function to be none the wiser vis -a-vis fish sprouts.
These are the sprouts in the recipe. Like tiny compacted cabbages, ish.

UK_harvested-brussels-sprouts.jpg
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Darn it, are you telling me I’m not going to be able to use bacon with my other sprouts? ;)

okay good to know it is this kind the ones you were talking about. Now the recipe makes more sense.
 
Could easily go in the Facts Thread, but I remember mentioning that the Mother in law had an apple tree with 3 different types on it.
An Early, a Late and a "Baking/Cooking' type apple.

ABC NewsSHARE

World record beckons for backyard gardener's tree bearing 10 different fruits​

ABC Goulburn Murray
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Katherine Smyrk
Posted Yesterday at 9:11pm
A man in a fluro yellow shirt stands in a backyard gardening holding fruit in his hands.
There are a range of rare fruit trees, seedlings and edible plants in Hussam Saraf's backyard.(Supplied: Hussam Saraf)
If you're after some stone fruit this summer, consider a trip to Kialla in Victoria's north.
Hussam Saraf propagates and sells a variety of rare fruit trees and edible plants from his back garden at the southern fringe of Greater Shepparton. Among his collection is one tree that bears 10 different types of fruit.

Key points:​

  • Hussam Saraf has grafted 10 different stone fruit onto one tree
  • The current world record was set in Chile in 2000, with a five-fruit tree
  • Agricultural experts are coming to inspect the tree to ratify the record
Come summer, a lucky picker could sample white nectarine, white peach, blood plum, peachcot, yellow plum, almond, yellow peach, apricot, cherry and yellow nectarine — all from one tree.
The base tree is a white nectarine, one that Mr Saraf grew from seed a few years ago.
"When you grow something from seed it will take much, much longer to fruit, so I decided to cut it and graft two trees on it at the start," he explained.
A man holds a snipped fruit tree branch next to a fruit tree in a pot.
Mr Saraf has been adding grafts to the tree every six months. (Supplied: Hussam Saraf)
"And then I said, 'OK, let's get the most out of it', and so every six months I grafted one or two different grafts again."
This is not Mr Saraf's only multi-grafted tree. He has a tree that produces oranges, lemons, mandarins and limes, and an apple tree with six different varieties
 

Nice one, @Sassy Colombian ! Did you grow outdoors or indoors? We grew some in our vegetable patch but we got waaaaaay too much rain this summer (we're in eastern Massachusetts) and once it started flowering we lost much of it to bud rot. We ended up harvesting the rest earlier than we would otherwise so we wouldn't lose it all. Now we wait for the snows to come and cover our shame.
 
sdk said:
Nice one, @Sassy Colombian ! Did you grow outdoors or indoors? We grew some in our vegetable patch but we got waaaaaay too much rain this summer (we're in eastern Massachusetts) and once it started flowering we lost much of it to bud rot. We ended up harvesting the rest earlier than we would otherwise so we wouldn't lose it all. Now we wait for the snows to come and cover our shame.
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To think @COYBL25 struggles growing them under a Tesco bag all summer under a Tesco bag lol
 

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