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thriftwizard

Chard and the Thing-Beginning-with-K (look away, Mardatha!) are our mainstays through the winter! This year we have 3 varieties of chard and 4 of kale, along with some sea-kale grown as an experiment. There are also leeks & carrots, which were sown in between summer's courgettes, tomatoes, beans, peppers & the like, not to mention next spring's broad beans now popping up. Whilst it's not as high as it is in summer, with the peas, runner beans & corn-on-the-cob, our plot still looks pretty full, and it's not all weeds. We do get the odd sideways look from those whose plots are now well-dug bare earth until next spring, but I've noticed that some of them have left a few plants or put in a cautious line or two of winter greens this year.

I must admit to being slightly puzzled by the idea that gardening is a summer-only activity; I'm sure my Dad & Grandpa grew veg all year round. Obviously things grow best & quickest in summer, and the ground does need to "rest" although rotating things & mulching/feeding the soil has much the same effect, but demolishing everything & leaving it bare all winter really seems like a bit of a waste of space to me! Each to his or her own, though; maybe they just don't like winter veg.

DigForVictory

Avert your eyes, Mar, but I believe Wednesday-recently-gone was National Kale Day, as someone stick a poster up extolling home made kale crisps & the office consensus was Definitively Anti. (You can take a horse to water...)

<research reveals NKD is both a Thing & is the first Wednesday in October, lest you give two hoots, or want a pretext to evangelise>

VJsmum

I loves me green leafys, I does. kale, cabbage, chard, spring greens, spinach - it's like I can feel them doing me good.

I'm still trying to empty freezer and cuboards in preparation for building them up again. but pleased to report the loo roll stash is piling up

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I like pretty much all leafy veg I've ever tried. And Kale crisps (baked with oil, seasalt and chilli flakes) are lovely, as is bright green kale stirred through hot mash. So I'm more than happy for certain people to eschew them in favour of other things; whilst they're at it, they can also reject Swede/Turnip/Rutabaga on the grounds that is cattle fodder as well - and keep them cheaper for us would-be ruminants.


Not seen any sign of my huge Chard starting a population explosion in the garden, though, which is quite disappointing.

Nargleblast

Can you deep fry jelly babies? (Asking for a friend)

GreyQueen

Jo Jo, chard send up flowering spikes in summer, little green flowers which look like nothing. Plants often end up 5-6 ft tall once the flowerheads are on them and so gnarly that you need a mattock to dig them up.


Have been YS hunting just now in marcus and spencius, managing to luck onto the 90% off point. You have to be quick, but it's a rainy night and I think some of the competition had stayed indoors.


Heh! YS-ing is no sport for the faint of heart.:rotfl:

DigForVictory

Nargleblast wrote: »

Can you deep fry jelly babies? (Asking for a friend)

I can't (they don't last long enough for the oil to heat & anyway the lads make the 'leftover' batter into pancakes) but apparently they can & do in Texas.

Texas Fried Jelly Beans—Jelly Belly beans are rolled in funnel cake batter and fried.

And that is only the beginning. Fried grilled cheese sandwiches and fried chocolate-covered strawberry waffle balls also made the list. It’s probably a good thing that this only happens once a year.

God Bless America?

-taff

thriftwizard wrote: »

Don't mention seeds...! Catalogues popping through the door, temptation arriving in my inbox - I'd need an entire estate, complete with workers, to grow everything i want to grow!

I'm just going to say...Real Seeds and Franchi seeds....There. Said it.

Nargleblast

DigForVictory wrote: »

I can't (they don't last long enough for the oil to heat & anyway the lads make the 'leftover' batter into pancakes) but apparently they can & do in Texas.


God Bless America?

There you are, Mardatha , anything's possible!