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oliverstoned ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 26 2004 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 6308 |
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My mother used to cook an english recipe called "lemon square", a thin lemon cake, very sugaree. Delightful! |
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oliverstoned ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 26 2004 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 6308 |
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Sure, i'm only on organics. |
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Slartibartfast ![]() Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630 |
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So we're starting off with surviving rosemary, thyme, oregano, chives, mint. I picked up our first newbie, a cayenne pepper plant.
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oliverstoned ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 26 2004 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 6308 |
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Planted 12 raspberries plants last weekend, lot of strawberries and i'm attacking "vintage" old tomatoes strains, begun sproutings into micro-greenhouse. Just bought some salad & french beans seeds that im about to plant directly in soil outdoor. The growing season is open!
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toroddfuglesteg ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Retired Joined: March 04 2008 Location: Retirement Home Status: Offline Points: 3658 |
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I grow my own spaghetti.
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timothy leary ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 29 2005 Location: Lilliwaup, Wa. Status: Offline Points: 5319 |
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^ somebody has to do it, mine always flop down after a rain, maybe i should stake them up??
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Dean ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
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timothy leary ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 29 2005 Location: Lilliwaup, Wa. Status: Offline Points: 5319 |
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Gonna plant the snap peas today and think about stir fry in about 60 days
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Dean ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
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Earlier this year we had an attempted break-in - nothing was stolen or damaged, but it made me realise that security was a little lacking - so we fitted security locks and f-off huge padlocks to all outside gates and doors - more for comfort than actual security since any determined fief can get into anywhere if sufficiently motivated, but at least it deters the casual light-fingered oportunist... Anyway, this is gardening thread, so what's this got to do with growing your own fruit and veg you may ask, and that's a fair question. Well, it now means that my herb patch is no longer as easily accessible from the kitchen as it once was, and rapidly fell into neglect and disuse.
So I made a herb table just outside the kitchen door using a cheap wooden potting-bench and a plastic "grow-bag" tray I bought from the local DIY store then filled it with pots of herbs and a few pepper plants:
![]() In this appallingly bad photograph there is: parsley, three kind of thyme, two kinds of mint, three rosemary plants, two chili peppers and 12 chili pepper seedlings in three varieties, garlic, fennel, marjoram, oregano and Greek basil.
I've also a raised bed for vegetables that we've had to cover in a net to keep the cats off:
![]() In there are butternut squash, mange-tout, runner beans, beetroot, edamame beans, leaks, pak choy, rocket and some unknown variety of "salad leaves" mostly all harvested.
And growing across the roof of our "veranda" (aka car-port now used as a covered patio) is a white grape vine that's doing rather well (though it was only planted to provide shade):
![]() ...and yes I do have a mirror-ball and several tea-light lanterns hanging beneath it.
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timothy leary ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 29 2005 Location: Lilliwaup, Wa. Status: Offline Points: 5319 |
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^ Looking good and I am sure will taste better than any store bought.
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Dean ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
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I have no problem with store-bought - most of it tastes just fine - some home-grown tastes different (not necessarily better), but not enough to get excited about - home-grown tomatoes can taste better than some supermarket toms, but again, not amazingly so. I have a slight hang-up with foodmiles, but nothing that would stop me buying strawbewrries out of season and I certainly cannot grow enough to keep me supplied with fresh strawberries even in summer. Fresh herbs are something else - they are *better* than dried by a very long way in most dishes ... though slow cooked stews probably need the robustness of dried herbs.
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Glucose ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: June 16 2012 Location: Czech Republic Status: Offline Points: 160 |
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^ Home grown tomatoes taste much better than those from supermarket. But it depends. In our shops there is food from Poland, Argentina, apples from Spain and potatoes from USA, instead of food from our country. So we have a garden,we had everything- strawberries, peas, potatoes, beans, tomatos, apples, some oregano, onion....But then we had no time and we reduced our food to tomatoes, beans and potatoes. And we're trying own wine, because we live in wine region. And also we have cherries and apples on trees in the garden. It depens on the care, but in my view your own food taste much better.
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Under the rocks and stones,
there is water underground |
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timothy leary ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 29 2005 Location: Lilliwaup, Wa. Status: Offline Points: 5319 |
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Growing your own food takes the mystery out of what you are putting into your body. What we can't eat because of surplus goes to the food bank. Most of our berries go into cordials which make great gifts. It is great to have a nice salad every day. We preserve seeds so we know their origins also. What you put into the earth will come back to you. We think of our soil as our external metabolism. Learning to grow your own food could become very important and we never stop learning.
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Slartibartfast ![]() Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630 |
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My grandparents on my Dad's side had a nice size yard when I was a kid and did some serious summer gardening. I remember the string beans and cucumbers in particular. We by no means grow enough to live off of but have a nice blueberry bush out back. A pecan tree as well but the squirrels always beat us to the nuts. Herbs, tomatoes, and hot peppers are essential just because there's nothing like having them handy, herbs especially. The dill crapped out on us rather rapidly this year. Everything else is doing OK. One of the tomato plants and the habanero are being a little slow.
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Dean ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
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timothy leary ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 29 2005 Location: Lilliwaup, Wa. Status: Offline Points: 5319 |
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You think it does not require too much effort? Maybe because you are not much of a gardener.
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Slartibartfast ![]() Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630 |
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No, small scale home food gardening doesn't require too much effort. Even what my grandparent's grew. When bean picking time came, they'd enlist the kids and get us to snap off the ends. |
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timothy leary ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 29 2005 Location: Lilliwaup, Wa. Status: Offline Points: 5319 |
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Small doesn't take much. What we are doing is not small. Our garden is one third of an acre.
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Slartibartfast ![]() Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630 |
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That sounds like roughly my grandparent's area. Maybe closer to a 1/4 acre.
On this lot we have about 3/4 acre, but after the areas the creeks take up, all the trees and the right of way at the street, we'd be lucky get 1/8. Edited by Slartibartfast - June 24 2012 at 19:38 |
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