Grow your own?

[Rolluplostinspace]

Anyone getting the fruit and veg in for this year?
As far as I can figure nothing has been planted here yet as we are going to wait till the end of March to allow for frosts to bugger off.
She might have started planting seed in the plastic tunnel not sure.
I can't dig or rake or bend so I'm mostly out of the picture apart from some ginger that's raised up along with onions and chillies and garlic and stuff.
Growing your own might just feed you a little more as all these modern world cockups seem to grow by the day.
Saying that a fair bit of fruit and veg in ALDI and LIDL today.
Beef toms from Spain two quid for six.
Blueberries from China I think were a quid forty for a small box... not far off normal.
Oranges apples lemons bananas leeks spuds cabbage all looking good.

[conkerking2]

Not me. The days of growing our own are long past and you have to wait months for them to grow. I was in Lidl and Asda the other day and they had more fruit and veg than anyone would need and plenty of salad stuff too but I can honestly say I've never been desperate to eat salad!

[Rolluplostinspace]

Not me. The days of growing our own are long past and you have to wait months for them to grow. I was in Lidl and Asda the other day and they had more fruit and veg than anyone would need and plenty of salad stuff too but I can honestly say I've never been desperate to eat salad!

nO i DON'T RECALL EVER BEING DESPERATE FOR A SALAD Oops Caps!
I'm old enough to remember seasons too.
Salad season was spring part way into summer.
These days you can have a salad on Xmas day and when you can't the world is in crisis!
I remember when no one had a fridge or freezer as well.

[conkerking2]

There was always a season for fruit and veg and it tasted far better for it. Tasteless strawberries in winter aren't for me and "new" spuds all year round just don't have the flavour. And don't get me going on all year round peaches and apricots as hard as cricket balls. I had a Saturday job in a greengrocers when I was 15, such a long time ago, and I can still remember the smell of the fruit first thing in the morning. Nowadays there's no smell and no taste either in some fruits. Ah, the good old days.

[Stooo]

Flat in an HMO with no garden. The mould is coming on well and I'm considering growing some cress near to the windows

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Not me. The days of growing our own are long past and you have to wait months for them to grow. I was in Lidl and Asda the other day and they had more fruit and veg than anyone would need and plenty of salad stuff too but I can honestly say I've never been desperate to eat salad!

nO i DON'T RECALL EVER BEING DESPERATE FOR A SALAD Oops Caps!
I'm old enough to remember seasons too.
Salad season was spring part way into summer.
These days you can have a salad on Xmas day and when you can't the world is in crisis!
I remember when no one had a fridge or freezer as well.

I don't mind admitting that on some occasions during wintertime, I have hankered after the odd ham SALAD sandwich (or beef). Just to bring back lovely memories of carefree summer days. A rare treat, with no guilt attached.
I like watercress, & rocket too. But if there's a shortage I certainly wouldn't make a fuss about it.

[Text]

The blame for the surge in demand for out-of-season garden produce, rests largely on the shoulders of the posh, rich vegans of Southern England.

They are the ones who demand exotic, unseasonal fruits, veg, & pulses be flown in from all 4 corners of the earth, all year round. They can afford whatever the price is. The carbon footprint must be large too.
Some caterers say posh vegan weddings can be a nightmare. Having to find fresh unseasonal food for hundreds of guests .....

[Old fart]

Not me. The days of growing our own are long past and you have to wait months for them to grow. I was in Lidl and Asda the other day and they had more fruit and veg than anyone would need and plenty of salad stuff too but I can honestly say I've never been desperate to eat salad!

nO i DON'T RECALL EVER BEING DESPERATE FOR A SALAD Oops Caps!
I'm old enough to remember seasons too.
Salad season was spring part way into summer.
These days you can have a salad on Xmas day and when you can't the world is in crisis!
I remember when no one had a fridge or freezer as well.

Yes but we had a cold slab in the pantry.

It was also funny to have to light a fire in summer to heat the back boiler in the fireplace that heated water for the tank when we had no central heating.
Do you remember Esso Blue adverts for the paraffin heaters?
Great times, waking up for school with frost on the inside of the windows, that we could write our names in.

[Old git]

The blame for the surge in demand for out-of-season garden produce, rests largely on the shoulders of the posh, rich vegans of Southern England.

They are the ones who demand exotic, unseasonal fruits, veg, & pulses be flown in from all 4 corners of the earth, all year round. They can afford whatever the price is. The carbon footprint must be large too.
Some caterers say posh vegan weddings can be a nightmare. Having to find fresh unseasonal food for hundreds of guests .....

We used to pickle stuff specially for the winter, our massive garden was full of veg, we spent hours after school being instructed in how do tend to it all. We stored so much veg too.

[Gabby]

I grow some herbs on kitchen windowsill…. love fresh herbs!

[Guest]

I grow some herbs on kitchen windowsill…. love fresh herbs!

I once grew fruit pips and stones in small pots on window sills.
Then transferred them to bigger pots outside, and ultimately planted them in the garden.
I got some lovely fruit harvests from them.

[Stooo]

I grow some herbs on kitchen windowsill…. love fresh herbs!

It's where I store my tomatoes (when I can get them). I'll grow basil on the sill but stuff like sage just absorbs the cooking odours.

[conkerking2]

Loads of tomatoes in the shops up here. Tasteless tomatoes but nevertheless ...

[Snookerballs]

My Tortoise is just coming out of hibernation and wants his breakfast , Lettuce , Tomatoes , Cucumber , thanks to Brexit he is going to have to go without ,

We are certainly ending up a Third World Country when it is impossible to feed a Tortoise .

[Guest]

My Tortoise is just coming out of hibernation and wants his breakfast , Lettuce , Tomatoes , Cucumber , thanks to Brexit he is going to have to go without ,

We are certainly ending up a Third World Country when it is impossible to feed a Tortoise .

Nice, I mean that your tortoise is coming out of hibernation, but the fact that you can't feed him is not good.

Why not take him on a trip to the sunny uplands?

The Brexit Farmers Market

There must be plenty of provisions for anyone and everything there.


If you find Diddly Squat.

You will be at the wrong place.

We Took Back Control after all.


Things can only get better, surely?