Fruit and veg prices soar - Some may disappear off the shelves

neverdespairgirl

mr.broderick wrote: »

Yeah think the recession may be beginning to bite.
Got one of those old 6ft sunbed things in the loft not been used for years, might start growing a bit of weed up there.

Need to watch the old leccie bill Mr. B, it's a good way of racking it up.

SingleSue

So pleased my brother is transforming the end of my garden into a huge veggie patch even if I did have my reservations about how large he wanted to make it.

PasturesNew

dervish wrote: »

take along a small knife or pair of scirssors.

If I get arrested, I'm using this forum in my defence!

PasturesNew

bubblesmoney wrote: »

...was wondering whats easy to grow in the uk with the least amount of effort in ones back garden. would love to grow stuff here too if it didnt involve much effort in the garden. any pointers on what is easy to grow here in the uk and any links to how to go about doing this here without needing a greenhouse. any help much appreciated. not a recession beating idea, i just like the taste of home grown vegetables and fruits, the freshness cant be beaten by whats bought in a supermarket.

There's a Green Fingered Board on here for all that growing advice/stuff.
They know what's what.

olly300

amcluesent wrote: »

If we stuck to seasonal produce grown in the UK then £ exchange rates wouldn't matter. There's no need for imported tomatoes in January, when you have local parsnips, leeks, swedes, sprouts, etc. all of which can be home-grown too. Fair enough, no-one really likes root-veg...

They make good soups and are nice in casseroles. Just right for winter.

PasturesNew

mr.broderick wrote: »

I really like you.

I've got a feeling you've not had much success with the ladies in the past.

Maybe we can cobble together 20 Top Pulling Lines That Are Guaranteed To Work.

baileysbattlebus

I had a conversation with my daughter the other day - she's 28 and generally not too stupid.

Basically she was going for a night out with some girlfriends, they had to spend £1 on a good Xmas present and £1 on a bad Xmas present. Her bad present was a tin of processed peas!

She couldn't understand why we had tinned peas, so I explained to her, that in the days before freezers and imported "all year round" vegetables, that you only got fresh peas for a few months a year and when it wasn't the growing season you got tinned or dried as they were 2 methods of preserving.

At 28 the mind boggles - I wouldn't have been so surprised if she had been 8 or something, it must be something to do with her blonde hair! Don't blame me I'm only her mother - but you can give mashed carrot and swede any day.

mr.broderick

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've got a feeling you've not had much success with the ladies in the past.

Maybe we can cobble together 20 Top Pulling Lines That Are Guaranteed To Work.

You'd be very surprised PN. The ladies couldn't resist a bit of master b in my younger days

lynzpower

“A lot of produce is now being shipped to Russia because they are prepared to pay more than we are. Things would be different if we still had enough growers left in this country but they have been largely forced out by cheaper imports. It can’t make sense to bring in leeks from Belgium and fly watercress across from the USA.”

Indeed.

Whats more, is that the economy is doing what the green agenda has been wanting to do for ages.

there are scores of reasons why this country is on its knees and this is one of the things that I really feel very strongly about ( my dad works in wholesale import of fruit/veg/flowers)

1) how can it be that children found by Jamie oliver did not know what a potato is- yet they eat chips everyday?
2) wholesale sell offs of allotments
eg manchester http://www.nemadvertiser.co.uk/news/s/519552_allotments_selloff_plot_outcry
considered in Redbridge - but averted http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/whereilive/localheadlines/3761191.REDBRIDGE__Council_rejects_allotment_sell_off_plan/
worksop http://www.worksopguardian.co.uk/news/39Hands-off-our-allotments39.3851260.jp
lincoln http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/education/Allotment-sell-leave-sterile-city/article-358892-detail/article.html
leamington spa http://www.leamingtoncourier.co.uk/news/Hands-off-Allotment-owners-fight.4155157.jp
lutterworth http://lutterworth.leicestershireparishcouncils.org/saveourallotments.html

and on and on

Where is all this talk of food miles? it was quite a hot topic not so long ago- but AH alas im sure the government didnt want to highlight the fact that up and down the land allotments are lost to development- yes development of - FLATS!

I must be the only person i know in london that has outside space ( roof terrace) and so can do my salads and when I can find somewhere warm & damp enough i might try mushrooms later in the year. although the terrace doesnt really work for that. Ive done mange tout & other peas in pots, but they werent overly yeilding & got flooded out. but will definatley try again.

Saw a very interesting article on TV not so long ago about this organisation, Abundance- in Sheffield, which is harvesting and redistributing wild foods, with a view to planting edible trees in town centres- so we can all enjoy something from the trees instead of planting ornamnetal trees that serve no other purpose than looking nice. http://www.growsheffield.com/pages/groShefAbund.html to be honest if anything these are the sorts of projects the government should be investing in- nationwide.

Geenie

baileysbattlebus wrote: »

I had a conversation with my daughter the other day - she's 28 and generally not too stupid.

Basically she was going for a night out with some girlfriends, they had to spend £1 on a good Xmas present and £1 on a bad Xmas present. Her bad present was a tin of processed peas!

She couldn't understand why we had tinned peas, so I explained to her, that in the days before freezers and imported "all year round" vegetables, that you only got fresh peas for a few months a year and when it wasn't the growing season you got tinned or dried as they were 2 methods of preserving.

At 28 the mind boggles - I wouldn't have been so surprised if she had been 8 or something, it must be something to do with her blonde hair! Don't blame me I'm only her mother - but you can give mashed carrot and swede any day.

Tell your daughter that dried peas are in now! All the trendy chefs do ham with pease pudding. I grew up with dried peas, and that tablet that use to sit in the bowl over night!! They are delicious, especially with a middle eastern slant on flavours.

Ox tail, pigs trotters, liver and kidneys costs a fortune in posh restaurants, yet was the devils own stuff to me as a child. All the old stuff seems to be in now and costs a fortune if eating out! Yet a bag of dried peas cost little and is nutritious.

Frozen peas are good, as I assume "fresher" as per the advert of picked and frozen within a few hours, compared to shop stuff a few days old!!

Would like to know though, what chemical changes make dried peas turn into a flatulance from hell experience, as they look so sweet in the bowl soaking over night and plumping up?!