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(20-09-2023, 03:34 PM)Veggie Wrote:Just waking this thread up because I've been reading a lot about eating 30 plants a week recently. Several companies are selling bags of ?powder" to help you eat your 30 plants a week.(20-09-2023, 11:01 AM)Veggie Wrote: At least we have a modicum of control over the veg we grow on our own plots! Wonder if I can grow 30 different veg/fruit/herbs to eat each week?? That'll be a real Challenge.I've made a list of the veg/fruit/herbs I grow and pick to see if I can reach 30. There are others that usually don't survive long enough to pick.
Courgette, tomato, cucumber, lettuce, rocket, kale, Chinese leaves, cress, CFB/DFB, Broad beans, peas, mangetout, pea shoots, potato, carrot, radish, beetroot, Elephant garlic, onion, spring onion, leek, chard, spinach (23 veg)
Apple, pear, peach, strawberry, blackberry, raspberry, gooseberry, jostaberry, blackcurrant, redcurrant, whitecurrant, grapes, quince, medlar, rhubarb (15 fruit)
Mint, sage, rosemary, thyme, marjoram, oregano, bay (7 herbs).
The really big (?impossible) challenge would be to eat 30 of these every week. Some could be frozen (if that counts) but it doesn't look possible for me to do this at the moment.
In my last post I wondered whether I could grow and pick 30 plants a week from the garden - and thought it was impossible. Today, I've changed my mind because, even though its January, there are 30 plants that I could eat now!
In the garden - Kale, red cabbage, sprouted brussels sprouts, leeks, three cornered leeks, elephant garlic, perennial leeks, onion shoots, watercress, chard, spinach, lovage (12)
Greenhouse - lettuce, rocket, beetroot leaves, Japanese mustard, mustard/cress, pak choi, mizuna, pea shoots, radish leaves, bean sprouts (10)
Herbs - Mint, sage, rosemary, thyme, bay, oregano, marjoram, lemon balm, pineapple sage, Cedronella, (10).
Plus nettles, dandelion and other wild plants. There are probably other plants too if I look hard enough !
My challenge to myself is to eat some of all of these plants in a week. Starting tomorrow.

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Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.