Topic: And then on the other hand, hell is....

[Tenuse]

... The @(£*"(£$(_!"_"£_*** weather - sun all week, rain at the weekend - GRR!

...Not quite being able to get all of that naughty dock root/mares tail root/bindweed bits out of the trench you're already 3 foot down into.

...It getting dark just as you've started pruning your apple trees, so that you can't quite see what you're doing and saw the wrong branch off.

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[jethro]

Ah the joys of gardening  ;D

[Tenuse]

Yes secretly I quite enjoyed it. So maybe it is heaven after all...  ;)

By the way does anybody else think you should be able to eat dock roots, they are so lovely and orange like fluorescent carrots!

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[gavin]

Dunno about dock, but I read somewhere that couch grass roots are harvested and on sale in markets in southern Italy (?).  Nutty and crunchy (now is that the roots or the peeps?).

All best - Gavin

[aquilegia]

Ah but days like that would make the lovely days so much less special!

[Tenuse]

Ooooh I am into the idea of Free Food I will find out how edible couch grass is I could feed the whole of Sheffield with what I've got in the allotment!!

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[Mimi]

Talking of free food Tenuse.  Did you hear the guy a few weeks ago now. He was on Radio 2 and calls himself a 'free-gan'  He never pays for food :o  When no one is about he goes around the back of big supermarkets' like Tesco Safeway etc and raids the bins for food, still packaged and within a day or two passed their sell by date.  All apparently still usuable,, but all un-sellable.  Didnt fancy it my self but each to their own :P  :P  

[allotment_chick]

...not having any more annual leave to take, so I can only dream of allotmenting if the weather at the weekend holds...... :(
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[Sulis]

... not being able to get my hands dirty!

[Tenuse]

Yes Mimi I have seen Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on one of his "Cook on the Wild Side" programmes ar*e up in a Tescos skip nicking 100 loaves of out of date bread!

I don't go that far but my freezer is full of "yellow label" goods.

Last year I picked wild blackberries and quince to make jam, picked elderberries to make syrup, picked oyster mushrooms, puffballs, wood blewits and saffron milkcaps for dinner, wild garlic for flavouring...

This year I am going to try pissenlit salad with fat hen and nettle top soup.

I love free food!

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