Allotments 4 All
General => The Shed => Topic started by: Tenuse on February 16, 2004, 14:19:19
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... 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.
Ten x
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Ah the joys of gardening ;D
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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!
Ten x
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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
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Ah but days like that would make the lovely days so much less special!
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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!!
Ten x
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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
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...not having any more annual leave to take, so I can only dream of allotmenting if the weather at the weekend holds...... :(
AC x
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... not being able to get my hands dirty!
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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Fearnley-Whittingstall on one of his "Cook on the Wild Side" programmes ar*e up in a Tescos skip nicking 100 loaves of out of date bread!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!
Ten x