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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: flossy on July 26, 2009, 18:58:17
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We all suffer from the odd infestation which give us '' holes '' in our cabbages etc at some
time , what harm is there in well washing, inspecting the leaves and eating them --
holes - an -all ?
floss xxx
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On some of mine more hole than leaf ;D
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I would Flossy....and do. Specially if you have washed them in salt water.
Tell me.....how would yer eat a polo mint? Hehe....the hole's the best bit ;D ;D ;D
Enjoy yer cabbages ;) :D
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I'd of thought that eating the holes was a good way to diet! ;D
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I'd eat them. Our ancestors had to, and if they hadn't survived the experience, we wouldn't be here!
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The holes are a bit tasteless, as if there's nothing there. No substance, or bite, if you know what I mean. It's the cabbage that's around the holes that's OK. Just so long as there are no lurkers in there ::) ::) ::) ::)
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Great diet food.Should have thought of that :)
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A hole can't hurt you can it, my Pak Choy has been got at and I am trying to convince
hubby to harvest and sow some more, looking forward to a good stir fry but have to
get round the feeling things arn't ' proper ' , sure he never met 'holes' before !
- sheltered life, love 'im,
Thanks star , betula and flighty ..... holes ar OK ! ;D
Love Polo's, ::)
floss xxx
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It's called the holefood diet :)
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Welcome to A4A Plot22
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Thankyou, glad to be here ;D
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On the other hand if it's a potato surrounding the hole I'd check very carefully before eating. I served a potato with a hole in it that I thought I'd checked out carefully......but i missed a smaller hole and the slug was still in it...one of my son's got it cooked I managed to extract it off him before he dissected the potato to find out what the grey thing was just before he found out! :o
He never would have eaten another home grown one again.
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We have served up boiled slugs several times... :-[
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A hole can't hurt you can it, my Pak Choy has been got at and I am trying to convince hubby to harvest and sow some more, looking forward to a good stir fry but have to get round the feeling things arn't ' proper ' , sure he never met 'holes' before !
My 1st sowing of Pak Choi got well and truly munched, rescued and ate some of it. hoping for better results with the 2nd sowing.
Can't you cleverly disguise the holes by chopping the leaves a bit?
By the way - fantastic thread to read on a drizzly day ;D
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Thanks 1066, thought I may make soup then quickly liquidise it ! ::)
-- found a snail munching through the net this morning, shell too big to follow on - grief !
- good idea, chop finely, ;D
floss xxx
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Just remember to chop the pak choy finely and not the snail :D
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I'm always finding slugs sliming around our fridge where I obviously haven't washed the lettuce thoroughly enough..... ::) ;D I see it as a bit of extra protein! ;)
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We have found slugs in salads before ... and the odd boiled caterpillar or blackfly floats to the side of the pan or steamer .... ;) ;D.
As for whitefly on the underside of Kale, it never all washes off so I have come to regard it as added protein. :)
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I'd eat them. Our ancestors had to, and if they hadn't survived the experience, we wouldn't be here!
Our ancestors no doubt benefited from the odd bug in their diet, great source of protein your common or garden maggoty pest.
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Not only that, but they'd have been exposed regularly to a vast array of germs, and they'd have had far more immunity than many people today.
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Whatever is making tiny holes in my pak choi also likes turnip leaves as well!
They told me the pak choi would bolt, but I keep the lottie gate locked! ;D
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No good locking it after the pak choi has bolted!
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Don't suppose they'd hurt....
I tend to thow them on the compost heap though.. :-[
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The tiny holes will be flea beetle... has it been warm and dry down your way? I think they have all drowned here... :-X
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Turn it into soup and liquidise. You won't notice the slugs! ;D
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Whenever a crawly turned up on the plate or you found half a worm in the apple you were eating, my mother always said 'It won't do you any harm, it's a vegetarian!' She is a great believer in not wasting food.
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I'm wasteful and never eat anything that has a hole in it.
The last time I had a caterpillar on my plate it put me right off my sunday roast ;D
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We had some very tender holes last night, 3 very small cabbages that had been eaten, other three ended up as compost although they were netted, cut all the outer leaves off and had enough for 2 of us, just used the middle, those holes are very easy to eat but don't taste much. ;D ;D ;D ;D
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I'm wasteful and never eat anything that has a hole in it.
The last time I had a caterpillar on my plate it put me right off my sunday roast ;D
Whatever for, it's a nice bit of free protein!