Travelling On

Karmacat

Yes thanks! Nice little walk, bit of garden tidying, even a bit of cooking (except I forgot to put the ground almonds in the frangipane, what can you do with that :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:). What about you, have you had a good weekend - before you know what tomorrow!

themadvix

Whoops to the ground almonds! Sure they still taste okay though!

I'm going to do some gardening today and hope to be suitably heartened by it (Nan would have approved too).

Have a good day KC!

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I was really interested that rtandon posted on my diary recently about lessons learned from her larder challenge:T. Just shows it can result in different behavioural insights each time as I know she's an 'old hand' at it. I'm posting this here as I know rtandon is a regular contributor to your diary. KC, and I also know you've mentioned herbs in your posts about your gardening. I hope you don't mind my cluttering up your diary;). I'd be very grateful for your expertise:A


After embarking on my challenge to just eat what I have in during the whole of january I made some very sobering discoveries during my inventory of the cupboards:eek:. I never imagined I would unearth so many jars of herbs and spices especially as lots of them are duplicated.


I've always used a lot of herbs and spices in my cooking but am ashamed to say they're usually the dried variety in jars from the supermarket. We have a huge garden with plenty of suitable spaces to grow a lot of our own herbs and I already do grow sage, rosemary and thyme (I feel a song coming on:rotfl:) but not parsley and I use that in industrial quantities. There was some mint growing in the garden when we first moved here in the 70s, the only edible thing apart from brambles, and both are still going strong. We don't grow any others apart from those I've listed here though:o. I really must do some research on growing conditions for some of the other herbs I use as I know some are more Mediterranean-type plants and need full sun and freer-draining soil than our clay. Maybe big pots would be best:think:. I don't really want them growing in pots inside on windowsills.

Karmacat

themadvix wrote: »

Whoops to the ground almonds! Sure they still taste okay though!

They do! It's giving me sugar poisoning, but I love it

I'm going to do some gardening today and hope to be suitably heartened by it (Nan would have approved too).

Have a good day KC!

Ah, thats nice, madvix - her influence will live on for a long time through you.

carbootcrazy wrote: »

I was really interested that rtandon posted on my diary recently about lessons learned from her larder challenge:T. Just shows it can result in different behavioural insights each time as I know she's an 'old hand' at it. I'm posting this here as I know rtandon is a regular contributor to your diary. KC, and I also know you've mentioned herbs in your posts about your gardening. I hope you don't mind my cluttering up your diary;). I'd be very grateful for your expertise:A

Expertise :eek: You're scaring me now :kisses3:

After embarking on my challenge to just eat what I have in during the whole of january I made some very sobering discoveries during my inventory of the cupboards:eek:. I never imagined I would unearth so many jars of herbs and spices especially as lots of them are duplicated.

I've always used a lot of herbs and spices in my cooking but am ashamed to say they're usually the dried variety in jars from the supermarket. We have a huge garden with plenty of suitable spaces to grow a lot of our own herbs and I already do grow sage, rosemary and thyme (I feel a song coming on:rotfl:) but not parsley and I use that in industrial quantities. There was some mint growing in the garden when we first moved here in the 70s, the only edible thing apart from brambles, and both are still going strong. We don't grow any others apart from those I've listed here though:o. I really must do some research on growing conditions for some of the other herbs I use as I know some are more Mediterranean-type plants and need full sun and freer-draining soil than our clay. Maybe big pots would be best:think:. I don't really want them growing in pots inside on windowsills.

Tra-la, lovely song Though it's nothing to be ashamed of in using dried supermarket type herbs! I absolutely know what you mean about growing some, though.

- wild garlic would absolutely grow in heavy clay - it'a a woodland herb, more or less, and it naturalises, and hey presto, yumminess.
- I have very heavy clay soil too, as you know, and two herbs that have naturalised are lemon balm, and sorrel.
- The oregano has done surprisingly well too. My chives grow well near a path - less moisture around them, I guess. Digging pebbles into the soil will mimic that, maybe?
- Winter savory grows really well under my rhodedendron, in spite of the fact that I nearly killed it by letting it get smothered with brambles
- rhubarb! you *have* to have rhubarb!

I definitely want to put in kale and chard, to naturalise.

I also have blackcurrants, but they haven't done too well last year, submerged in brambles for part of the time, and suffering from aphids being shepherded about by ants. My raspberry cane died the death too.

Once properly weeded (i.e. perennial weeds dug out and mulch done) my garden would need *so* little care. There'd be lots I could do, but I wouldn't *have* to do it. And it would still look nice. I really hope to achieve that this year.

PS I do have flowers in my garden! Scabious, the wild garlic itself, roses, nigella, witchhazel, grape hyacinth, tulips, some succulents, Californian poppy, perennial onion, chives, heather, lots

Karmacat

carbootcrazy wrote: »

I was really interested that rtandon posted on my diary recently about lessons learned from her larder challenge:T.

Can't find it


I've been out for a council heathy walk, and my lovely neighbour wrestled with his green bin to push my leftovers into it, ready for collection. I've stuffed my face because I was freezing, now I have to plan out the rest of the day. -
- Phone my sister about our plans for a holiday courtesy of The Sun (though I shan't confess to her I haven't got today's token yet).

- Go buy today's Sun paper (what a painful thing to have to write ...).
- Part of me wants to have a bonfire, after quite a few days of no rain, but it *did* rain last night. I might just clear the area and ready things so that if it's all okay later in the week, I can do it then. Can't do it tomorrow or Weds, there are Plans Boring in the case of Tuesday, but still.
- if I don't have a bonfire, and seeing as I really need to talk to my sister etc, I don't think I will, I could go ahead with scanning and plotting stuff.


Cuppa tea first

Karmacat

Karmacat wrote: »

Spends
£3.50 2nd January, U3A group 6 month membership.
£3.20 3rd January, combined car parking charges for today's day out.
£14.31 3rd January, money I owed my sister for bits and bobs over the last 2 months.

Further Spends
£1.20 Sunday
£0.55 today.
Both these are the Sun newspaper :eek:
I swear, I'm using their caravan holiday thing :rotfl:
No bonfire, chatted to sister, chatted to a neighbour. Felt nice, very local

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Karmacat wrote: »

I've been out for a council heathy walk....

I always have to smile whenever you mention a 'healthy walk' which sounds like an alternative to an unhealthy one:rotfl:. The latter maybe a circular route based on a pub and via a chippy and a McDonald's perhaps;)

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Karmacat wrote: »

They do! It's giving me sugar poisoning, but I love it

Ah, thats nice, madvix - her influence will live on for a long time through you.


Expertise :eek: You're scaring me now :kisses3:

Tra-la, lovely song Though it's nothing to be ashamed of in using dried supermarket type herbs! I absolutely know what you mean about growing some, though.

- wild garlic would absolutely grow in heavy clay - it'a a woodland herb, more or less, and it naturalises, and hey presto, yumminess.
- I have very heavy clay soil too, as you know, and two herbs that have naturalised are lemon balm, and sorrel.
- The oregano has done surprisingly well too. My chives grow well near a path - less moisture around them, I guess. Digging pebbles into the soil will mimic that, maybe?
- Winter savory grows really well under my rhodedendron, in spite of the fact that I nearly killed it by letting it get smothered with brambles
- rhubarb! you *have* to have rhubarb!

I definitely want to put in kale and chard, to naturalise.

I also have blackcurrants, but they haven't done too well last year, submerged in brambles for part of the time, and suffering from aphids being shepherded about by ants. My raspberry cane died the death too.

Once properly weeded (i.e. perennial weeds dug out and mulch done) my garden would need *so* little care. There'd be lots I could do, but I wouldn't *have* to do it. And it would still look nice. I really hope to achieve that this year.

PS I do have flowers in my garden! Scabious, the wild garlic itself, roses, nigella, witchhazel, grape hyacinth, tulips, some succulents, Californian poppy, perennial onion, chives, heather, lots

Thanks so much for this:T:A. Lots for me to think about. The oregano sounds good, I use that a lot in dried form. I use a lot of coriander too. I had an idea coriander was more of an exotic and won't grow in UK. Off now to look it up.


We have several very mature apple trees that crop really well. We also have some soft fruit bushes which feed the local bird population more than us:( . We used to have rhubarb but it seems to have died. I never cared for it much anyway. We already grow most of our own veg (well, OH does, I'm no gardener but I might have a bit of success with herbs if I ever get round to planting some). One thing we have no success with are cauliflowers which is sad as it's our favourite vegetable. In fact. despite a glut of other produce most years the 3 things I like most, oranges, bananas and cauliflower, I still have to buy from the shops:rotfl:

Just a query about the wild garlic. Does it taste like 'regular' garlic?


We have several varieties of peony plants in our garden. I adore their lovely big, blowsy blooms:j. Sadly they flower for such a short time and always when the weather seems to be really rainy and windy in May which soon puts paid to lots of the petals:(. I would like to move some of them to other locations(or rather get OH to do it;)) so I can see them from other windows but apparently they don't like being moved. They sulk and stop flowering for a year or two when rehomed:(

Suffolk_lass

Hey KC, here is the thread I referenced on my thread...right here

Cheery_Daff

I picked up a leaflet for our local healthy walks the other day - many of them are 8-10 miles across the moors!! :eek: :eek: I was expecting something a little more sedate to get me back into regular exercise :rotfl: