On 2016-09-04, David Rance wrote:

On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 19:17:05 Nick Maclaren wrote:

I finally cropped and dug up my magenta spreen today, to stop it
seeding, and shredded it. But it made me wonder how many people
dry and use the stems of things like it, brassicas etc. for
firewood. Anyone here do that?

I've made a walking stick out of a Jersey cabbage but haven't tried
burning it. Wouldn't it smell unpleasant?

An old guy in my wife's family used to finish his gardening day by
putting *all* his waste, including brassica debris, in an incinerator
& lighting it before going indoors. The fumes were legendary in the
neighbourhood, & it was someone else's job to sneak over & extinguish
it on bad days.