Talking of taties, I have some that need digging up...
You must have a short growing season in Scotland. Do you know which veggies do best in that? Hopefully we'll get an update from you. When you start.
I haven't done an update video for a while, it would be good to do that. I'm winding if there is a way to get my videos from YouTube onto 3speak, as I no longer have them saved. Plagiarisers seem to be able to do it, so I figure there must be some way.
Well I'm going to start growing some shoots in the window soon, just need to decide what seeds I'm going to get! March - October seems pretty ok in Scotland for growing. I'm in the process of making a raised veg bed in the back garden for the tatties and want things like carrots, spinach, cabbage, kale, beetroot in the front where the tatties were last year. Also some more herbs, esp. coriander. I'll also grow tatties in bags and boxes. In the summer there are plenty of apples in various parks around town to be harvested as well as all the different berries in the woods and fields. I'd love to have a South-facing greenhouse - might try to make one in the front garden next year if landlord is up for it.
I've also got aloe vera growing outside he he.
Re. the youtube vids, there are plenty of apps/programs out there that will let you d/l videos from YT. I use one called 'Free YouTube Download'
https://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-YouTube-Download-en5.htm
It does have a paid/premiere version which allows for faster downloads but if you're only wanting a few vids and don't mind slow speeds, the free version should be fine.
Oooh, like beansprouts or micro greens?
The coriander doesn't like the heat here and bolts so quickly. I can imagine it will do well there.
I miss scrumping! Do you call it that in Scotland? There are always apples, blackberries or sweet chestnuts somewhere to be harvested. A lot of the places we used to go as children got built on, but where we lived in England before we emigrated, there were blackberries across the road and the kids loved collecting them in autumn.
Thank you for the link. I'm in no rush, so that should be perfect.
I would like to grow some bean sprouts too but I meant getting the plants for outside ready by growing the shoots in the window first coz Feb will be too cold and early :). I really want coriander - in Portugal there was so much we'd get bunches of it fresh whenever reqd.
Ah scrumping.....! Not heard that used, but then, not seen that many folk scrumping for apples and stuff. Scrumping wasn't something I did in my childhood in India. Blackberries ARE a fav. though and I have seen plenty of folk scrumping in the autumn.
Did they not have plants for foraging in India? I could imagine tropical fruits growing wild there.
He he, for sure...I do remember seeing berries at school (which was in the mountains) but life was otherwise in urbansprawl Delhi. We had a custard-apple tree and a guava tree at home which sometimes fruited, and two big mangoes which never did when I was a kid, but funnily enough started up just two years ago!
I also have a great memory of being taken to a lychee orchard once.
I'm kinda late getting my act together in terms of interest in own/wild grown foods. I recently saw on The CorbettReport that it's possible to eat a pine tree!
https://www.corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-pinetree/
I've heard of pine needle tea, even in school and that it was food in the cold winter when nothing else is growing. I'll have to look into that more.
...and parts of the bark are edible - can be cooked like pasta, eaten raw or ground into flour :D