I want to buy an oil sprayer/mister to mist frying pans etc.  Not too expensive, (you know me, I don't spend lots of  money if I don't have to). The web is full of different types, mostly from China and I suspect their robustness.  I was wondering if any of you brilliant cooks out there had any favourite to recommend. At the moment I buy the preloaded unrefillable ones from the supermarket.

I mentioned on the NOMAD thread that I'd picked some Daylily leaves to eat and JJB was curious.

Hemerocallis/Day lilies are practically 100% edible - leaves, flowers and roots. I have eaten them at all stages, though I wouldn't eat the roots again as I don't like "killing" a perennial plant for its roots.  Don't remember being very impressed with them anyway!! They're in my "only if starving" category.

Please don't eat anything unusual unless you are 100% sure you know what it is - these are NOT lilies, some of which are poisonous to humans, cats and dogs! Research it first before you try.

On a more general note, I'm trying to grow more edible flowers in the garden - to me that would be the best of all worlds - beautiful and edible.
If there are any flowers that you regularly eat, please tell us about them.

Firstly apologies this is a ridiculous question     .

Can I save seeds from this red drumhead cabbage?

   

2 reasons for the stupid question.
 1 the flowers are more like side shoots coming from the neck rather than a flower spike coming from the centre of the head.
 2 real seeds on there seed saving page say save from 20 different individuals! I don’t have space to grow 20 red cabbage just for seed saving!

You expect to find the odd daffodil and snowdrop whilst walking in the woods with the dog, but I was surprised to see a tulip as well today. Well off the beaten track so no idea how it got there. It looked so incongruous, I had to take a photo (not a very good one I'm afraid).

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I just had to share....sons chillies growing in his student house. The ones with fruits was left to its own devices over xmas

You may be able to spy his new ones started off in a broken kettle  to the left? 

Well on his way to having green fingers. #proud Mum
   

Morning Folks

Has anyone sown 2 seeds per cell?

Real Seeds have just posted on FB:-

NEWS RELEASE  We are proud to announce our "SeedID" plugin for Google Lens that allows anyone with a smartphone to identify vegetable seeds. Using an algorithm developed by professor T. Sing-Yu of the Prophytobotanical Institute, this heuristically matches images to variety names , & it allows us to offer for the first time mixed packets of seeds. Just whip out your phone, start Google Lens, point it at the seeds, and the neurally-trained cloud-computing recognition system does the rest.

          

Didn't know whether to post this in Veg or Flowers but, we're here now.

Many years ago, on Madeira island, I ate some lupini (lupin seeds). It was a festival of some sort, and the celebrants were giving handfuls of these seeds to all and sundry (including me). I didn't have a clue what they were and it took a bit of research to find out.!
Last year, when I saw that Real Seeds were selling them, I bought a packet. https://www.realseeds.co.uk/lupins.html
Didn't get round to sowing them then but, they're staring at me now. However, having had a DuckDuck, I'm not quite so enthusiastic. Garden Organic are a bit underwhelmed by them. https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/edible-lupins

Has anyone tried these things? All contributions welcome.

My little 1 year old asparagus are doing so well. Even though they’re still very small and 2 or 3 years from harvest. They’re producing better then my 5 year olds .

               


Last photo focused on the back ones but you get the idea.

I want to plant some onions but apart from planting where I have leeks at present, the only other bed I have is where I will be growing peas and beans which apparently are not compatible together, if I split my bed into three section  by growing brasicas in the middle section would that act as a barrier between the onions and the legumes, the bed is 10feet long by 9feet wide and not walked on,  so no need for paths