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Brett Bim's avatar

Whatever you do, do not plant mint in your garden thinking "I'll keep it in check" because you will not keep it in check and now you have a second or tenth hobby you didn't know about.

And no amount of mint sauce is going to make the rich taste good...

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Jessica Rath's avatar

Maybe adapt Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal", eat their babies.

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Ben Green's avatar

There is also the nasty nasty side effect of absorbing some of their life energy when ingesting them. I don't think I want that

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Jeff Foot's avatar

Said it before.....

"il faut cultiver notre jardin."

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Ben Green's avatar

Maybe one day I'll write a 10,000 word essay on why Candide is the most useful book ever written!

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Rachel's avatar

Never read. Expand…

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Jeff Foot's avatar

Compare and contrast......😏

Avoid ever using the words "nice" and "get".....

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Ben Green's avatar

all 10,000 words right now?

Ok. I'll do the post. Not today though :)

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rowena's avatar

Wonderful successes! Xx

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Ben Green's avatar

Cheers!

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Rachel's avatar

To have created teeming, diverse, beautiful life Ben from abandoned, unloved, nothingness is a true wonder.

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Ben Green's avatar

Thank you :)

It really is just a side effect of making more soil!

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Rachel's avatar

It’s still a wonder!

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Ben Green's avatar

I'll still take it <3

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Sara Dawn's avatar

Politics! Don't get me started. Eating the rich will be the solution when we can't grow veggies. None of my brassicas have come up, or carrots. Sown twice. Either too cold during the early spring or too hot after that and dry as a desert. I'm moving away and have to get an allotment, with a tap!

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Rachel's avatar

Have you tried growing tree spinach? It’s a revelation- seems resistant to slugs etc, looks beautiful with its iridescent bright pink tips and when steamed, is so tender and delicious. It self seeds too!

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Ben Green's avatar

Carrots can take a long time to show themselves.. but I know you know that.

I hope they are just taking their time!

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Sara Dawn's avatar

I AM selling my house and going back to the Alps region. Maybe my buyer will have carrots, but the water in the 1000l cube is fast running out. 😕

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Ben Green's avatar

I was speaking to someone just this morning who was musing about water storage needs for an off grid life. They said they had a "200 gallon" container. Or just a little less than 1000 litres.

I told them that that would in no way be close to enough. I have 10x 1000 litres for rainwater collection, 6x 1500 litres for filtered potable water, and 2 underground water storage units of about 30,000 and 50,000 litres each.

I have just written a thing for a different thing which I titled "Water. Surprisingly important". And it is.

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Sara Dawn's avatar

Absolutely. You'll need that water one day. It's got worse since I moved to the Haute Loire nine years ago. We've got either floods or hot droughts .... Not conducive to easy crop production.

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Tom Green's avatar

Absolutely epic to see the heat exchangers in place and plumbed. Everything crossed for hot showers soon!! Great job!

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