Allotments 4 All
News:
Picture posting is enabled for all :)
Home
Forum
Help
Search
Calendar
Gallery
Chat
Login
Register
Allotments 4 All
»
General
»
The Shed
(Moderator:
Admin aka Dan
) »
Topic:
And then on the other hand, hell is....
« previous
next »
Print
Pages: [
1
]
Author
Topic: And then on the other hand, hell is.... (Read 4119 times)
Tenuse
Acre
Posts: 459
And then on the other hand, hell is....
«
on:
February 16, 2004, 14:19:19 »
... 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
«
Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 by 1077926400
»
Logged
Young, dumb and full of come hither looks.
jethro
Guest
Re: And then on the other hand, hell is....
«
Reply #1 on:
February 16, 2004, 14:37:05 »
Ah the joys of gardening ;D
«
Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 by 1077926400
»
Logged
Tenuse
Acre
Posts: 459
Re: And then on the other hand, hell is....
«
Reply #2 on:
February 16, 2004, 15:13:46 »
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
«
Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 by 1077926400
»
Logged
Young, dumb and full of come hither looks.
gavin
Hectare
Posts: 1,099
Good gardening!
Re: And then on the other hand, hell is....
«
Reply #3 on:
February 16, 2004, 15:54:06 »
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
«
Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 by 1077926400
»
Logged
http://www.keirg.freeserve.co.uk/diary/default.html
aquilegia
Hectare
Posts: 3,590
hello!
Re: And then on the other hand, hell is....
«
Reply #4 on:
February 16, 2004, 15:54:55 »
Ah but days like that would make the lovely days so much less special!
«
Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 by 1077926400
»
Logged
gone to pot :D
Tenuse
Acre
Posts: 459
Re: And then on the other hand, hell is....
«
Reply #5 on:
February 16, 2004, 18:30:06 »
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
«
Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 by 1077926400
»
Logged
Young, dumb and full of come hither looks.
Mimi
Hectare
Posts: 1,821
Pretty in Pink
Re: And then on the other hand, hell is....
«
Reply #6 on:
February 16, 2004, 19:16:16 »
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
«
Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 by 1077926400
»
Logged
Take time to stop and smell the flowers.
allotment_chick
Hectare
Posts: 504
comfrey is cool....
Re: And then on the other hand, hell is....
«
Reply #7 on:
February 16, 2004, 19:37:12 »
...not having any more annual leave to take, so I can only dream of allotmenting if the weather at the weekend holds...... :(
AC x
«
Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 by 1077926400
»
Logged
Guardian of around 2,950 sq ft of the planet Earth
Sulis
Not So New ...
Posts: 19
'Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing
Re: And then on the other hand, hell is....
«
Reply #8 on:
February 16, 2004, 23:43:26 »
... not being able to get my hands dirty!
«
Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 by 1077926400
»
Logged
Tenuse
Acre
Posts: 459
Re: And then on the other hand, hell is....
«
Reply #9 on:
February 17, 2004, 12:21:54 »
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
«
Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 by 1077926400
»
Logged
Young, dumb and full of come hither looks.
Print
Pages: [
1
]
« previous
next »
Allotments 4 All
»
General
»
The Shed
(Moderator:
Admin aka Dan
) »
Topic:
And then on the other hand, hell is....
SimplePortal 2.3.5 © 2008-2012, SimplePortal