Richard de Florennes Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 England/Angleterre, region Mildenhall (Suffolk), 2010-06-21: harvesting barley ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 ah my area of holiday choice to sasach, my famillys from that area, lovely to see stuff working from there, and the kc135 going into mildenhall in one shot to, or as the wife said, "that big glider going over look" :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archbarch Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 its a great place to work aswell!! Been in most of the fields around Mildenhall and Lakenheath, can get a bit noisey at times. how long are you over for Sascha?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FB Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 aaaaarh home sweet home!!!....well about 30mins away!!! :D good to see some pics, seem to miss it all then it rains! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nashmach Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Lovely to see some more usual gear than all the Lexions etc. Nice pictures there Sascha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted August 4, 2010 Author Share Posted August 4, 2010 its a great place to work aswell!! Been in most of the fields around Mildenhall and Lakenheath, can get a bit noisey at times. how long are you over for Sascha?? Have been over on your island for just a couple of days two weeks ago, doing the air tattoo over at Fairford, then hunting some airplanes East Anglia via Cranwell - Coningsby - Mildenhall and finally Lakenheat for the F-22 Raptors deployed there. Plane spotting was my primary hobby until farming action cought me, reducing my aircraft hobby to just a few days per year ... Anyway, back to topic: England/Angleterre, region Sleaford, Leasingham Moor, 2010-07-20: farming action on three fields within a few yards ... 1) shreddering the crop of flower bulbs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted August 4, 2010 Author Share Posted August 4, 2010 2) harvesting a strange kind of (unknown to me) "blowing" (!?) plants with small onions with a row crop tractor equipped with a windrower and another tractor equipped with kind of a crop cutter?: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Richard de Florennes Posted August 4, 2010 Author Share Posted August 4, 2010 3) harvesting early potatos: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted August 4, 2010 Author Share Posted August 4, 2010 England/Angleterre, region Lincolnshire, Coningsby, 2010-07-20: Fighting against weeds with a Garford row cultivator (and a sprayer passing by). The farmer referred to the plants I thought to be onions as what I understood as "leaks" or so. However, I did not find this term in my dictionary. Who can explain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmitemania Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Great pictures Sascha thanks for sharing, I know Lincolnshire fairly well as its one of our neighbouring counties, although I live about a mile away from the Cambirdgeshire border, also been too RAF cranwell many times on work as the construction company I work for is building houses just on the very edge of the base, very close to the runway, you drive right through the centre of the base. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archbarch Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 Sascha its spelt leeks if that helps. Leek is the emblem of Wales, theyre of the onion family, used in stews or casseroles. Alot of Leeks are grown in the Fens with a couple of very large growers. Great pictures why not post some of your aircraft pictures in another topic? Im sure others would like to see not just me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbo Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 Nice pictures Sascha, you have managed to find some unusual crops whilst you were over here. Leeks are the national vegetable of Wales and closely related to Onions http://www.google.co.uk/images?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&channel=s&hl=en&q=leek&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=-GpaTK3QOJWy0gS05ZBd&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=5&ved=0CEQQsAQwBA&biw=1362&bih=609 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted August 5, 2010 Author Share Posted August 5, 2010 thanks you very much for explaining me "leeks" - I still always love to learn something new. Is there also anybody able to explain me something about the small onions with the "blooming" crops which are windrowed and topped before (see pics above)? What are they called exactly? What are they used for? Look a liitle bit like planting onions used in my garding instead of seeding onions ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masseyjack590 Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 they might be flower bulbs but i'm not sure on that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbo Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 thanks you very much for explaining me "leeks" - I still always love to learn something new. Is there also anybody able to explain me something about the small onions with the "blooming" crops which are windrowed and topped before (see pictures above)? What are they called exactly? What are they used for? Look a liitle bit like planting onions used in my garding instead of seeding onions ... At a guess I would say that they were Shallots, these are small onion type bulbs that are used whole in cooking as they have a wonderful flavour http://www.google.co.uk/images?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&channel=s&biw=1362&bih=609&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=shallots&aq=f&aqi=g3g-m7&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 I was just thinking the same Mike, they don't look the right sort of bulb shape for the ornamental Allium flowers to me but could be wrong http://www.allotment.org.uk/vegetable/onion-shallot/growing-shallots.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 look like shallots to me to gav, sure thats how ours flowered last year, she checked in her veg book to make sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archbarch Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 they maybe shallotts or some growers produce their own onion setts to plant next year, ive only known of one grower to do this as it can involve alot of work. Shallotts are mainly used for pickling but i wouldnt have thought they would have been left to go to 'head' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted August 5, 2010 Author Share Posted August 5, 2010 la culture de poireau ... Angleterre/England, Lincolnshire, Coningsby, 2010-07-20: shreddering weeds on the headlands of this leek field ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Richard de Florennes Posted August 5, 2010 Author Share Posted August 5, 2010 England/Angleterre, Suffolk, Lakenheath, 2010-06-21: big potato harvest for Kettle Chips by the Guinness farm ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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