While the monsoon season is here, maybe time to plant some rice? ;-)

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David in Normandy wrote in news:4f9c6811$0
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While the monsoon season is here, maybe time to plant some rice? ;-)


Absolutely right, the potatoes are water bound.
Staples, must grow more staples. Do they do the steel ones or aluminium?
(the monsoon people)
Think I would rather grow spagetti, the plants are rare though because of
supply and demand I hear.

You will be swamped with orders if you open up a website selling them.

Baz

On 04/28/2012 11:58 PM, David in Normandy wrote:
While the monsoon season is here, maybe time to plant some rice? ;-)


For the amount of standing water around, we could start planting.

David, did you get the heavy hail storms last week? Left things pretty
ragged here I'm afraid; and probably has done for this years peach crop
and early cherries.

On 29/04/2012 10:38, Emery Davis wrote:
On 04/28/2012 11:58 PM, David in Normandy wrote:
While the monsoon season is here, maybe time to plant some rice? ;-)


For the amount of standing water around, we could start planting.

David, did you get the heavy hail storms last week? Left things pretty
ragged here I'm afraid; and probably has done for this years peach crop
and early cherries.

Yes, we got the hail unfortunately. Don't know if the fruit trees / crop
have been affected though. So far this month we've had 98mm of rain. It
has rained almost every day. Weeds are coming up in the veg garden but
it is impossible to go on to hoe them without sinking in mud.

The runner beans are up now but all the leaves are looking pale and
yellow and the potatoes also look similarly washed out. I guess nothing
likes this much rain.

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Chris Hogg wrote in
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On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:20:03 GMT, Baz wrote:

Think I would rather grow spagetti, the plants are rare though because
of supply and demand I hear.

Nah! Spaghetti grows on trees, bit like Spanish Moss in the
Everglades; saw it on the telly, many years ago, early one April. ;-)


Oh! blimey yes Pathe news. VERY early one April. ;-)

Baz

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On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:30:44 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:

On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:20:03 GMT, Baz wrote:

Think I would rather grow spagetti, the plants are rare though because of
supply and demand I hear.

Nah! Spaghetti grows on trees, bit like Spanish Moss in the
Everglades; saw it on the telly, many years ago, early one April. ;-)

I can vouch for that :-)
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Can you remember at what time of the year it was harvested? Were they
harvesting it in April?

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Can you remember at what time of the year it was harvested? Were they
harvesting it in April?


(Well the very beginning of April that is)

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On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:30:44 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:

On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:20:03 GMT, Baz wrote:

Think I would rather grow spagetti, the plants are rare though because of
supply and demand I hear.

Nah! Spaghetti grows on trees, bit like Spanish Moss in the
Everglades; saw it on the telly, many years ago, early one April. ;-)

I saw that when I was a very young. We kids knew immediately that it
was a joke but it fooled our parents for a few minutes.

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Martin wrote in
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On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:45:08 GMT, Baz wrote:

Chris Hogg wrote in
m:

On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:20:03 GMT, Baz wrote:

Think I would rather grow spagetti, the plants are rare though because
of supply and demand I hear.

Nah! Spaghetti grows on trees, bit like Spanish Moss in the
Everglades; saw it on the telly, many years ago, early one April. ;-)


Oh! blimey yes Pathe news. VERY early one April. ;-)

BBC TV Panorama with Dumbley.


Panorama, of course it was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ugSKW4-QQ

Baz

We were in the Sado estuary in Portugal a month ago. They hadn't planted the rice because the ground was too dry. Hope they are getting some of this rain.

On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:05:29 +0100, Stephen Wolstenholme
wrote:

On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:30:44 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:

On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:20:03 GMT, Baz wrote:

Think I would rather grow spagetti, the plants are rare though because of
supply and demand I hear.

Nah! Spaghetti grows on trees, bit like Spanish Moss in the
Everglades; saw it on the telly, many years ago, early one April. ;-)

I saw that when I was a very young. We kids knew immediately that it
was a joke but it fooled our parents for a few minutes.

Steve

Whaddayamean it was a joke? I paid £15 each back then for 5 spaghetti
bushes and the chap down the pub said not to worry if they didn't crop
for many years. They are due to deliver some tasty pasta this summer
for the first time.

Cheers, Jake
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Urgling from the asylum formerly known as the
dry end of Swansea Bay.

Jake wrote in
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Whaddayamean it was a joke? I paid £15 each back then for 5 spaghetti
bushes and the chap down the pub said not to worry if they didn't crop
for many years. They are due to deliver some tasty pasta this summer
for the first time.

Cheers, Jake
=======================================
Urgling from the asylum formerly known as the
dry end of Swansea Bay.


You should have bought the seeds, by April 1st you would have had them in
the ground and would have fruited the same year. I must admit, they are a
bit stringy.

Baz

On Apr 29, 2:36*pm, Sacha wrote:
On 2012-04-29 12:30:44 +0100, Chris Hogg said:

On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:20:03 GMT, Baz wrote:

Think I would rather grow spagetti, the plants are rare though because of
supply and demand I hear.

Nah! Spaghetti grows on trees, bit like Spanish Moss in the
Everglades; saw it on the telly, many years ago, early one April. ;-)

Richard Dimbleby, iirc!
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Any fool can grow spagetti but you try growing lasagna

Dave Hill wrote in
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On Apr 29, 2:36*pm, Sacha wrote:
On 2012-04-29 12:30:44 +0100, Chris Hogg said:

On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:20:03 GMT, Baz wrote:

Think I would rather grow spagetti, the plants are rare though
because
of
supply and demand I hear.

Nah! Spaghetti grows on trees, bit like Spanish Moss in the
Everglades; saw it on the telly, many years ago, early one April.
;-)

Richard Dimbleby, iirc!
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Whats all this about?

Any fool can grow spagetti but you try growing lasagna

I would not try spelling it so superbly as you have, but nowdays seeds are
extremely rare. Janet might know, it/she knows all about everything.
I have never seen them in the shops but a whisper tells me that one shop in
Italy sells them, but only on 1st of April, and even then if you have a
f/tard card. Even then stock is very limited.

Baz

In article ,
Dave Hill wrote:

Any fool can grow spagetti but you try growing lasagna

Yes. Seriously difficult. But here is a picture of the species
from which it was domesticated:

http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantwxyz/welwitschia.htm


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.