Forget the marrows, do they have a Turnip that looks like a thingy?
Veg rustlers hit with conditional discharge after roadside lineup
A pair of petty thieves were hit with a conditional discharge after pilfering a load of fruit and veg from allotments in Cambridgeshire. The light but grubby fingered vegetable rustlers were searched by suspicious cops across the road from allotments in Brampton, Cambs. Lawrence Miller, 44, and Steven Randall, 46, were found …
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Wednesday 9th November 2011 16:16 GMT Andus McCoatover
Well, end of the recipe for Karelian stew...(Which is easy, and delicious, by the way!)
Finns don't like their neighbours:
...Cook without a cover at a moderate temperature, 175 °C, for 2.5 -3 hours. Cover the pot towards the end of the cooking time.
Serve with mashed potato, boiled swedes (rutabagas) and lingonberry purée....
BOILED SWEDES!?!?!?
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Thursday 10th November 2011 01:21 GMT xj25vm
"the middle classes discover the joy of dodging Waitrose's organic price tags by having a few convenient rods on what would otherwise be wasteground."
Where did that came from? With land being so scarce in the UK - I'm pretty sure any allotment site abandoned by gardeners (not that it would ever happen) would quickly be snapped up by developers and turned into some housing development of one sort or another. Specially as all sites around here are bang in the middle of towns/cities - as that's where people need them.
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Thursday 10th November 2011 04:21 GMT jake
My veggie garden ...
... in a 28 acre corner of the property bordered by a couple main roads, has prominent signs, in four languages[1]. It reads "If you are hungry, come to the big barn and ask anyone for help harvesting food. If you try to take it without asking, the dawgs will use you for food."
In reality, the dawgs will only alert me, the Wife or the Foreman that someone's about (that's how I trained 'em) ... We get a couple dozen takers every week, and all leave happily with a several days worth of produce. Sometimes they get lucky, when I've been making sausage or we have a surplus of eggs or have slaughtered a largish critter. Most of 'em return the favo(u)r and clean stalls & paddocks & ditches, or mow occasionally.
If you have more than you need, share. It comes back five-fold.
[1] English, Spanish, Chinese and Vietnamese, if you care.
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