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09-08-2010, 02:11 PM
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Order to eat things
"kay" wrote in message ... 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? - 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 |
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