Growing for PAPA or CACA
Veggie Online
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You may have noticed a theme to my seed sowing recently - or maybe not!

Most of you know what CACA is - Cut And Come Again - mostly used for greens like lettuce and salad leaves. Pick some leaves and leave the plant to grow on. 
PAPA is similar but its Pick And Pick Again. (I've just made this up, unlike CACA which has been around for yonks). 
PAPA crops include peas, beans, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, courgettes, squash etc . Also perennials like rhubarb, asparagus, fruit bushes and strawberries. 
PAPA crops are less hassle, in my mind, than the roots like carrots & turnips and the heading greens like cabbage & cauli. 

So, I'm concentrating my seed sowing efforts on PAPA crops - which, by coincidence are also the veg I enjoy eating the most.  OK, I accept that, if they all grow I will look like a cucumber by the end of the season but I'm willing to risk that!

PAPA crops are also the ones that I enjoy picking the most - wandering around with my little basket, picking a bit of this and a bit of that and returning to the house to work them into the day's menu. Its a bit like foraging without leaving the garden. 

Waddya think?
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Sounds good to me. Are you going to add strawberries to your PAPA list? Asparagus maybe?
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They're already on there. Big Grin
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(Yesterday, 02:46 PM)Veggie Wrote: They're already on there. Big Grin
So they are if I read properly    Rolleyes Big Grin
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Totally agree. Your PAPA idea is generally what I grow and enjoy too, with the exception of carrots and onions. I even experimented with the tenderstem broccoli last year quite successfully, which could be in the PAPA group too. Sweetcorn probably isn't but nonetheless I like it (if I get any to grow this year!)
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I usually tell Kato to have  a caca or papa when he's out!  Tongue His nickname is 'Katy two poo's'
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So that'll be Pick it up and Pick it up again. Big Grin
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(Yesterday, 04:47 PM)Veggie Wrote: So that'll be Pick it up and Pick it up again. Big Grin
Always carry at least two poo bags with me! Angel But usually it's one poo for each or his two walks! Rolleyes Nothing like being regular! Big Grin
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