"kay" wrote in message
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Bob Hobden;896832 Wrote:
wrote...-
An odd question, I think, but if you're picking your various crops and
you
have more than you can eat in one go (which I'm currently getting with
courgettes and raspberries and it's on the ever-closing-in horizon with
the
beans) ... next time you pick fresh, do you tend to eat the freshest
you
picked, with the worry that the earlier stuff will probably go past
edible,
or do you eat up the earlier stuff first, where you then end up with
lots
of
mediocre not-so-fresh-but-edible stuff?
Or am I just the most disorganised person around, and everyone else is
keeping up with eating and freezing as required?
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Freeze what we will use and eat what we want of the fresh stuff and the
older unused stuff in the fridge goes back on the compost heap.
Vegetable gluts are something I don't have a problem with, since I grow
mainly fruit and my vegetable growing space is tiny, overshadowed,
slugridden and totally unsuitable.
Each day I pick strawberries and raspberries and tayberries, and we eat
what we want. Anything uneaten after 24 hours is then tipped into the
deepfreeze.
But reading the courgette thread in particular, I can't help wondering -
wouldn't it be easier just to plant fewer plants?
It's never that simple.
One plant would be enough for the two of us, but if I only plant one, it
dies and we have no courgettes. So I plant two, and both survive, creating
the glut. Murphy's law is quite specific in this regard.
Incidentally, you'll be able to see the two of them later in the year.
That's all I'm saying for now, I have a cunning plan. Watch this space.
Steve