How are the veggies coming along?

[AHPP]

Track rough enough that anything like that risks tipping over. Otherwise could carry bins up with the skidsteer and grab (gently).

 

Planting. Good question. Whatever my mate has started too much of probably. I don't even especially like a lot of vegetables. I'm just doing it because it's the right thing to do. Chickens will eat whatever. I like potatoes, onions and garlic so ideally some of that at least.

[peds]

Garlic is easy to grow, and entirely reasonable to get a year's supply if you have the space. But you'll get 6 or 7 months maximum of fresh after harvest, and after that you'll need to switch to preserved, in whatever form that may take: pureed in oil, whole in honey, dried, fermented, frozen garlic butter, curry pastes, etc.

 

Take the edge off the lean times by growing bear's garlic, ail de l'ours, wild garlic.

[Steven P]

Garlic: Mine all started with 1 bulb from the supermarket, nothing fancy, got about 60 overcrowded plants growing now (Mrs P doesn't like garlic so all it does is grow). Leave it to dry it keeps OK, but best fresh. Likewise for the horseradish but that needs to be contained, Asdas best. Never managed to get their ginger to grow well though

[Alan Smith]

Apparently they used to plant horseradish along railway embankments to help stabilise them.

[sime42]

21 hours ago, AHPP said:

Track rough enough that anything like that risks tipping over. Otherwise could carry bins up with the skidsteer and grab (gently).

 

Planting. Good question. Whatever my mate has started too much of probably. I don't even especially like a lot of vegetables. I'm just doing it because it's the right thing to do. Chickens will eat whatever. I like potatoes, onions and garlic so ideally some of that at least.

 

Garlic would be a good fit I think. If you don't want to grow much then it makes sense to major on a cash crop like that. Minimal work once it's in the ground as well, it'll just sit there and do it's thing until it's ready to be picked in July.

 

 

[AHPP]

I’ll check the layer of compost on the kitchen bench top to see if there’s any sprouting cloves. I’m up the garden atm, burning a sofa and a mattress.

 

 

More my usual gardening. 

[sime42]

I'll be impressed if you can grow Cloves as well.

[AHPP]

 

Got the chimney barrel on it now. Full chat.
 

What the last half an hour has shown me is how absolutely risible the notion is that you could do anything in the event of a house fire except die. 

Edited 11 hours ago by AHPP