What does that look like? Where can you get them? xA
I’ve gardened for 35 years and as long as I can remember I’ve used a planting knife. For weeding and for transplanting, always. I only use a...
I'm glad you're having fun Sandy!
I'm a hard person! At least they die happy.
To keep off slugs I have successfully used a) slug collars and b) slug traps, also called slug pubs. In the pubs I use cheap beer, which we get...
"burn, drown or give to council."Are you a greengrocer Nigel? I'm looking forward to some free leeks, chives, garlics .....
I thought as much - my mouth was watering! I even found some recipes, at http://www.carllegge.com/2014/02/three-cornered-leek-recipes/. And all...
Some allium-like flowers have appeared behind my shed, in the shadow. They have an unusual triangular flower stem, and the leaves tend to the...
I don't mean the foliage, I mean the top of the carrots themselves, of the roots.
And what about the green bits in carrots? If the top comes out above the soil, that top gets green. Can you eat that?
Well I've always cut out the green bits in or around the potato carefully, and my husband, maybe less carefully. I just haven't thrown out the...
People are sensitive to different things. My husband is even worse in the potato stakes, and refuses to change his ways. And I'm not aware of him...
The most extensive treatment of this subject seems to be at http://chem103csu.wikispaces.com/Solanine. It does seem best to throw away the whole...
Really? I've done that lots of times .... My whole life in fact. How does solanine poisoning show?
Not only the sprouts are poisonous, so are the green bits where potatoes have been in the sun/daylight too much. Often in supermarkets they have...
We are eating them as I speak, more or less, and will do so long after you see new ones are in the shops! Nothing wrong with eating 'old'...
Yes we know. We never eat them! My question is: does it make sense to keep taking them off so the potatoes won't waste energy in growing the...
I mean sprouts growing on the potatoes you are storing to eat.
My husband keeps taking off the sprouts from the potatoes several times each season. He says that they won't waste so much energy sprouting if he...
In this case it was definitely not the rhubarb which lost out!
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