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David in Normandy wrote:
I've had similar responses from people, surprisingly some pensioners who lived through food shortages during the war. One old lady refused to eat any of my fresh home grown greens because they had the odd caterpillar hole or similar damage. She preferred to buy perfect looking but pesticide ridden limp greens from the supermarket. Perhaps they're working on the basis that they've done their stint having to live through a food shortage, and now they deserve to be able to eat as much pesticide as they like. I too have had people turn up their noses at root vegetables because they had traces of soil on them! Some people are really bizarre! To be honest, the one thing I hate most about home grown veg is the amount of washing off soil that one has to do. I like the potatoes that come out clean. They're great. :-) |
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David in Normandy wrote:
A good idea if someone could arrange it, would be to have some local drop-off points where people with surplus vegetables could leave their produce for collection by one of those charities associated with helping to feed the elderly or those living in poverty with no garden themselves. Hmm, there's a UK organisation who make a thing about going out collecting surplus unwanted fruit from garden trees and distributing it to Worthy Places. The name of the organisation slips my mind, and I can't think offhand what to google for, but your google-foo may be better than mine right now if you were interested. |
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Bob Hobden wrote:
We give some to family/friends but none of them live close so do I drive them there? If I do I put up the cost of MY veg so it's a lot cheaper and easier to return them from whence they came, the soil, if we aren't going to see them anyway. Neighbours do take some, but Runner Beans, for example, are a British veg so only two households would eat those. I've just spotted the neighbours gossiping outside and presented them each with 3 courgettes (cue lots of "ooh, what's /that/?" for the yellow ball ones!) and a handful of french beans (one of the 3 declined - oddly, the youngest of the 3), and some raspberries for the lady next door. |
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Dave Hill wrote:
The drought set my beans back so none for about another week and 2nd lot are just showing the first flowers. Which reminds me, I did the experimental "digging a trench under half the bean plot and not the other" approach this year. The trenched ones are split between "doing really well" and "still only in flower", but that is clearly split on variety. The other side (ok, it's not a good experiment, as these are totally different varieties!) - the dwarf canellini beans are good, but the runner beans are all a bit ropey looking so far! Looking in Tesco today they had packs of Value Beans for 45p BUT the pack was just 3 beans, Kilo price was ?4.00 and they were from Kenya. /3/ beans? I need to see these packs! That's just a waste of plastic! The Spray for marking pods etc Oasis flower colour, ask your friendly florist or find a wholesale florist. must be cheaper than ordering on line http://www.onlinepackagingshop.co.uk...ay-colour.html Cheers. |
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But growing fewer means you can have a greater variety of stuff, so more resilience. So this year you may have fewer courgettes, but maybe the aubergines have done well, that normally you wouldn't have had space for. |
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Have to confess I much prefer Frozen peas to the fresh ones, except when the fresh are straight out of the garden and eaten raw. Off hand I cannot think of a vegetable which we ever have so much of that we can give it away even to family. Mind we eat more veg than most people and very little meat. Had the first Juiced Apples today, lovely and sharp. |
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Jill Bell wrote:
That was my pet hate about home grown leeks - they usually had to be picked in the rain, so by the time I'd donned wellies and waterproofs, paddled down to the veggie patch and dragged them out of the ground covered in ud, I had freezing cold hands. Then there was all the cleaning off to do, with cold water, by which time my hands were blue. And they still ended up with far more mud and grot down the stems than shop bought. In fact, I finally decided that it was easier to buy them from the supermarket. Blimey, you're a lot nicer to your leeks than I am. I just stick a big fork under them and ease them out, and if they snap then, well, I was going to chop it up anyhow. :-) Now, I've got very little space for veggies, and a remaining son at home who will only eat peas and sweetcorn (the frozen variety - where did I go wrong as a parent?!?) so I restrict myself to my favourite, runner beans, and a couple of courgette plants. We have loads of space, with 1.5 allotments and a garden and 2 greenhouses. And yet we /still/ run out of space cos we go mad at the potato day every year ... ! |
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"Dave Hill" wrote "Bob Hobden" "Dave Hill" wrote I am amazed at all this talk of wasting so much "Surplus" food, Doesn't anyone have friends, neighbours who wouls appreciate some "Eresh" fruit and veg, also one or 2 local OAP's, then there is freezing, salting and jam and chutney making. If your courgets are to many then let some grow into marrows, when properly ripe they will last well into the winter. I always keep my best peas and beens on the plant to ripen for next years seed( on this subjuec I use a blue flower spray to mark the pods I am keeping so that they dont get picked by accident). With runner beans I do 2 sowings, with the 2nd sowing end of June/ early July so that they will crop almost till the frost. We give some to family/friends but none of them live close so do I drive them there? If I do I put up the cost of MY veg so it's a lot cheaper and easier to return them from whence they came, the soil, if we aren't going to see them anyway. Neighbours do take some, but Runner Beans, for example, are a British veg so only two households would eat those. The drought set my beans back so none for about another week and 2nd lot are just showing the first flowers. Looking in Tesco today they had packs of Value Beans for 45p BUT the pack was just 3 beans, Kilo price was £4.00 and they were from Kenya. The Spray for marking pods etc Oasis flower colour, ask your friendly florist or find a wholesale florist. must be cheaper than ordering on line http://www.onlinepackagingshop.co.uk...ay-colour.html We are growing three different varieties of Runner beans as usual this year so no good keeping seed. -- Regards Bob Hobden W.of London. UK |
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