301k in debt and morbidly obese - things aren't great!

Verbatim

I've still got lettuce growing outside but have gone off it after having salad for lunch almost every day this summer. We pick nasturtium leaves and flowers and wild garlic (patch by our pond) in season plus herbs and different leaves to go with the lettuce. Tomatoes never do well, probably as I don't know what I'm doing with them. And I'm in awe at the poster who manages cucumber and melons. I'm in soup mode now and the leeks are coming into their own. I put them in when I've taken out the peas and broad beans, much later than is recommended but i haven't the space before and they seem to thrive.

Igamogam

Verbatim wrote: »

And I'm in awe at the poster who manages cucumber and melons. .

Please dont be in awe- they are very easy! DD2 is in charge of those.......... But we do have a small greenhouse which helps. There are outdoor cucumber varieties but at nearly 700m above sea level I doubt if they would stand a moggy in Hades chance;)

If you are in soup mode and fed up of lettuce for salads - lettuce soup easy and deelish!

Buffythedebtslayer

Well I know what I will be reading tonight !!

xxxx

Karmacat

Brilliant! :j:j:j


and I can just see you stroking your mahogany :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Buffythedebtslayer

Karmacat wrote: »

Brilliant! :j:j:j


and I can just see you stroking your mahogany :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Karma! Behave!!!! :rotfl::rotfl:

Shower-of-roses

karmacat wrote: »

brilliant! :j:j:j


and i can just see you stroking your mahogany :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

stroking his what?

Frodobaggins

We find that our little ones will eat veg they normally turn their noses up at, if they have helped us pick it and prepare it.

patman99

MrB. don't forget, you can also publish your book in the '.epub' format if you want to appeal to the widest audience. All the eReaders can handle this (except the Kindle, although Amazon are rumoured to be fixing this 'fault').

Supermarkets don't care what you really want the cardboard for. They are glad to get shot of it. With waste card prices as low as they are, it costs the supermarkets to dispose of the stuff, so you are doing them a favour.

My local shops are glad to get shot of cardboard. Unlike Suffolk, which has LA-run recycling centres that will take commercial cardboard and paper waste for free (it is cheaper to get the business to bring the stuff to you, than to send a dustcart out to collect it), here in Essex businesses have to pay.

firesidemaid

MrBloater wrote: »

Am getting lost in the world of forums here, now I've (ha-ha) cracked ebay I'm delving deep into the worlds of kindle and grow yr own. But, cos underneath all the bluster I'm a polite kinda guy who can sometimes say the wrong thing - I'll ask here rather than upsetting the legions of hoe-wielding folk in their own backyard - I would just like to know how moneysaving growing your own veg is? It just strikes me that the amount of effort (physical, mental and logistical) to plant onions far outweighs the 99p for 3 or 4 lovely ones that I can buy as and when at the supermarket. I don't dispute the health, enviromental and metaphysical virtues of growing your own, I just wonder how much of a good use of time it would be for someone like me?

now, i would have to ask OH how much physical effort it takes as he does all the work (i just do the picking and making of stuff). but, we have not really bought any salad or veg since the spring. plus we have bags of onions and potatoes and had to buy a new freezer to fill with veg - and we've been eating it all the time as well. we also have about 50 jars of jamand lots of bottles beetroot, onions and pickles. we have save tonnes on our shopping bills - we also swap stuff with like-minded folk;)

if you find it appeals to you it can be very rewarding, and another free form of exercise. depending on what you like to eat, what grows well in your soil and what seeds etc you use starts to determine what kind of things you might like to grow.

Verbatim

mizmir wrote: »

All this talk of growing vegetables is drawing me in - is there anything easy you can start growing now that will give you stuff over the winter? Have a small plot here I could use but as we may not be in the house after next May don't want to wait until Spring!

I am informed from the back of the seed packet and an article in a paper that cauliflower can be sown now and of course peas and broad beans to give early crops next spring. have never tried cauli's before but have grown early peas and beans before. good luck