Asparagus seedlings
Posted by: doublyjonah - 08-11-2025, 08:14 PM - Replies (2)

Hi all, has anyone grown asparagus from seed? I have some small seedlings (6 to 8 inches tall) and wondering if they should go out into a bed now or be potted on and kept somewhere sheltered until spring. 

Thanks!

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  Food memories
Posted by: Veggie - 05-11-2025, 11:41 AM - Replies (36)

Share with us your childhood memories of meals - maybe, like Vinny its coming home from Sunday School to Jelly & custard ...........you get the idea.

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  What animal "power" would you like to have?
Posted by: Veggie - 22-10-2025, 03:35 PM - Replies (6)

I've just watched a Jay flying from tree to tree and thought, I wish I could fly like a bird?
Swim like a fish? Climb trees like a monkey? Run like cheetah? 
What would be your superpower?

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  Flavoured butter
Posted by: Small chilli - 22-10-2025, 11:27 AM - Replies (4)

I regularly make my own garlic butter. Today I’ve just made honey butter for the first time. It works nicely on a crumpet. 

What flavoured butter do you make? And what do you use it for?

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  Tea bags & microplastics
Posted by: Veggie - 19-10-2025, 11:38 AM - Replies (13)

"Which" have published an article about hidden microplastics in teabags. 

https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/is-...__20251019

Naively, perhaps, I'd assumed that where the packet says the teabags are compostable, that was the end to the problem. I was wrong! The microplastics are leeching into our cuppas from the sealant used to form the teabag. .....and that's before they reach the compost bin.  Its a bit scary really. 

I'd heard that teabags were best avoided and have been using more looseleaf tea, but I thought it might be because of the additional manufacturing processes/resources  required to bag up the tealeaves.

From today, I'm going to stop using teabags. Since I have so many "free" ones, I'll empty the teabags into the pot so that the "teabag" doesn't come into contact with heat. Hope this will help me avoid the microplastics but still enable me to use the (bagless) tea. 

Ideally, I would be making herb tea using plants from the garden, but, being surrounded by FREE teabags, I've been tempted away from growing my Own Tea Garden. Maybe, next year's project?

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  What’s your name ?
Posted by: Small chilli - 08-10-2025, 05:59 PM - Replies (4)

   

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  The Sky at Night
Posted by: Veggie - 07-10-2025, 07:08 PM - Replies (13)

A thread to highlight special events in the night sky - eclipses, comets, special moons.

Tonight, we welcome the Harvest or Hunter Moon - a supermoon. 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c059dyvvjj7o

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  £1 a day Challenge
Posted by: Veggie - 29-09-2025, 11:03 AM - Replies (22)

Now I know this is not a Challenge that most/all of you will join me in. However, it would be remiss of me not to share it with you. Big Grin

As you know, I try to keep my daily food spend to £1 a day but I don't have a way to be accurate about it - so, in October, I'm going to give myself £31 to spend on food. If I go to the shop, I'll keep the till receipt and add up what I've spent on MY food - not anyone else's, like the dog. Big Grin

Anything that I eat from stock (cupboard/freezer) is FREE. I'm hoping that this will free up some cupboard & freezer space  and make me use more homegrown fruit & veg. 
I'll probably need to buy butter & yogurt out of my £31 which will mean a visit to the shop, and, when I do, I'll try not to be led astray unless I can "afford" it. 
Its a bit like returning to the Covid lockdown days, when we were unable to go shopping and lived on whatever we had in the cupboard. I'm going to try it again, without the fear of running out of toilet rolls.

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  Growing Rice in the UK
Posted by: Veggie - 28-09-2025, 09:59 AM - Replies (2)

Not a joke - its really happening. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wgeq702dyo
Don't think I'm ready to convert my little pond into a rice paddy yet, though

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  What shouldn’t be flowering
Posted by: Small chilli - 21-09-2025, 04:56 PM - Replies (21)

I spotted this iris ( slightly slugged )     

The delphinium is flowering beautifully since i dug up the voluntary potato.     

You got anything that probably shouldn’t be flowering now, but is?

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