When life sends you Lemons, just bake a cake

chevalier

was also interested in what lingo you wanted in case there are free online resources for it. i know for example someone was offering via facebook cantonese lessons.....

Lemon_Tree

nothing as exciting as Cantonese Chev, i'm looking to learn Italian.
makeup - i've never used gumtree so would never had thought to look on there, but i shall have a peek. Not much of an Italian community round here as far as i know so not sure how much there will be on offer, but i will have a look.

Cakes are temporarily on hold at the moment as i'm once again starting the dieting lark. I shall be making some for OH though.

Lemon_Tree

got the annual allotment accounts done tonight which is well in advance of Thursday's meeting. Glad to be handing it over to another person aka mug! Hoping it will help me see the allotment as a big adventure rather than as a chore

**Kat**_2

What do you grow LT? We want to grow veggies in the garden but are complete novices. What's good to do?

chevalier

whilst i am not LT. KAT think about what you use a lot of.that is what i tend to grow! so i grow alot of tomatoes, and am trying peppers this year. I do new potatoes in containers. Then if I have any more room I plant things in the beds like herbs between the flowers (though when I get my own place there won't be any flowers as such)
hope this helps
chev

Lemon_Tree

Kat we're still beginners but started in our front garden with growing things. Last year we achieved spuds, beans, butternut squash, toms, peppers, aubergines, though the latter were grown in the greenhouse.
This year we're really trying to get control of the allotment and make better and more frequent use of it.
chev is right though, grow what you like to eat. We got a few onions two seasons ago and they were lovely.

**Kat**_2

Good plan. I really want to do it myself as even though the VAT increase doesn't directly affect food, it will as suppliers will have to charge more etc, want to beome as self-sufficient as possible.

catspaw

Looks like you've got the accounts all sorted then LT, do you have a plan for the allottment this year? Anything you'd really like to grow?

Pippilongstocking

Must be 24 hours till new windows

Goodluck I'm so excited for you xxx

And what ARE you going to grow? Xx

Lemon_Tree

well with little effort we can grow weeds and parsnips (self set ones anyway!)

what we really want to grow are:
garlic
onions
spuds
french beans
peas
carrots
parsnips
toms
peppers
courgettes
squash
leeks
spring greens

big plans moi????
what will we achieve? heavens knows but i'm going to give it a good go