Thanks for your thoughts on my little query Although veg would be a good idea they would not look all that pretty from our living room window and I do fancy the scented geraniams Thanks its geven me food for thought. Prof

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Thanks for your thoughts on my little query Although veg would be a good
idea they would not look all that pretty from our living room window and
I do fancy the scented geraniams Thanks its geven me food for thought.
Prof

Then think of tomatoes, various cabbage and lettuce types, Cape
gooseberries, runner beans, chillies, etc.

Some years ago I erected a cage of bamboos over my front path (at a
different house) and grew runners, trailing marrows, a pink-flowered
radish which makes edible pods, and cucumbers up it, with tomatoes, cape
gooseberries and nasturtiums underneath.

It really looked quite decorative. Now, my front garden is graced by a
stand of extremely well-nourished rhubarb, and a Jerusalem artichoke has
appeared and taken up residence nearby. I think that will disappear, as
I've enough of those in the back, and this year some of them grew over
ten feet. (And had silly little sunflowers on top, which I have never
seen before.)

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Thanks for your thoughts on my little query Although veg would be a good
idea they would not look all that pretty from our living room window and
I do fancy the scented geraniams Thanks its geven me food for thought.
Prof

OK :~))
Actually runner beans up a wigwam of poles look rather attractive.......They'd
give height to the bed..........nice red flowers ..........and you get to eat
the produce:~)

Jenny

Runner Beans up wigwams?

Been there, done that, they look and taste super than you :-))

Mike

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Thanks for your thoughts on my little query Although veg would be a good
idea they would not look all that pretty from our living room window and
I do fancy the scented geraniams Thanks its geven me food for thought.
Prof

OK :~))
Actually runner beans up a wigwam of poles look rather
attractive.......They'd
give height to the bed..........nice red flowers ..........and you get to
eat
the produce:~)

Jenny

Been there, done that, they look and taste super than you :-))

thank you ;-((

JennyC wrote:

OK :~))
Actually runner beans up a wigwam of poles look rather attractive.......They'd
give height to the bed..........nice red flowers ..........and you get to eat
the produce:~)

That's indeed the beauty of vegetables. As for the flowers, I
instinctively always go for the wild ones, for the seed heads, the
colours, the insects and the changing scene we get with them year after
year and the endless things one can do with them. This year all my ice
cubes had a borrage flower in them. It looked so beautiful in a pilcher
of lemonade. I have a few geraniums too - not for their flowers but for
their leaves. I can't stop myself pinching the mint one on my way to
work.

Just spent sometimes buying some seeds from the italian seeds co. Lots
and lots and lots of seeds for 12 quids and it's all I need beside the
potatoes I'll go and choose in February. Which one should I try this
year? deep sigh Roll on spring )

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This year all my ice
cubes had a borrage flower in them. It looked so beautiful in a pilcher
of lemonade.

Oye!!! Buddleia ,buddliea, buddleja?-the burrafly bush thingy.

Pilcher? Pilchard? Pitcher?
What happened to your spiel chocker

On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 16:01:11 GMT, Rusty Hinge 2 wrote:
and a Jerusalem artichoke has
appeared and taken up residence nearby. I think that will disappear, as
I've enough of those in the back, and this year some of them grew over
ten feet. (And had silly little sunflowers on top, which I have never
seen before.)

Here in N.Somerset all three of my varieties of j.a flower each year
(for the past 25y at least !)
Some say that an alternative name, "girasol" (Italian or Portuguese
derivation ?) got corrupted to give us the "jerusalem" bit of the
name. Others say that this is not true.

I guess the true story is blowing in the wind

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On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 16:01:11 GMT, Rusty Hinge 2 wrote:

and a Jerusalem artichoke has
appeared and taken up residence nearby. I think that will disappear, as
I've enough of those in the back, and this year some of them grew over
ten feet. (And had silly little sunflowers on top, which I have never
seen before.)

Here in N.Somerset all three of my varieties of j.a flower each year
(for the past 25y at least !)
Some say that an alternative name, "girasol" (Italian or Portuguese
derivation ?) got corrupted to give us the "jerusalem" bit of the
name. Others say that this is not true.

I aver that it is true-ish - being a corruption of 'girasole', or 'turnsun'.

The whole thing came from the North Italian, articiocco girasole, via
Old Spanish, alcarchofa and Arabic, al-kharshofa or al-kharshuf, but the
artichoke bit refers to the thistle type rather than the sunflower, and
I have no idea how 'artichoke' or its predecessors got applied to the
sunflower (girasole). They really have little in common, visually or
culinaryaryaryary.

I guess the true story is blowing in the wind

Hmmmm. You should try my recipe for soup - well-hung venison, Jerusalem
fartichokes, lentils, pea flour, finely-sliced Savoy cabbage, swede,
carrots, onions and a little garlic, all rendered in the water Brussels
sprouts were cooked in.

Approach from upwind...

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Rusty Hinge 2 wrote:
Hmmmm. You should try my recipe for soup - well-hung venison, Jerusalem
fartichokes, lentils, pea flour, finely-sliced Savoy cabbage, swede,
carrots, onions and a little garlic, all rendered in the water Brussels
sprouts were cooked in.

Approach from upwind...

Have you tried to spray your weeds with that?! Poor Mrs Rusty ...

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Rusty Hinge 2 wrote:

Hmmmm. You should try my recipe for soup - well-hung venison, Jerusalem
fartichokes, lentils, pea flour, finely-sliced Savoy cabbage, swede,
carrots, onions and a little garlic, all rendered in the water Brussels
sprouts were cooked in.

Approach from upwind...

Have you tried to spray your weeds with that?! Poor Mrs Rusty ...

If there had been a Mrs. Rusty, she might not have been happy aboout
being called a weed...

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Thanks for your thoughts on my little query Although veg would be a good
idea they would not look all that pretty from our living room window and
I do fancy the scented geraniams Thanks its geven me food for thought.
Prof

It really looked quite decorative. Now, my front garden is graced by a
stand of extremely well-nourished rhubarb, and a Jerusalem artichoke has
appeared and taken up residence nearby. I think that will disappear, as
I've enough of those in the back, and this year some of them grew over
ten feet. (And had silly little sunflowers on top, which I have never
seen before.)

Mine did that this year, I'd never noticed it happen before.

Alan


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