We have curved beds, OH has a good eye for a curve (that's why he married me ). I just dig a bit out surreptitiously, he notices the curve has gone a bit wonky and reshapes it. It's a bit like painting the Forth bridge, l go all the way round the garden, then start again !
I always buy UK grown fruit and veg, if I can’t buy English strawberries at Christmas, I’ll go without, don’t find the Spanish ones nice anyway. The last ones I bought I had to make a crumble with them! We still have English apples here and of course lots grown in Cornwall, potatoes, greens and cauliflowers.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I buy seasonal fruit and veggies too and as local as possible. Lots of market gardening and orchards in the Vendée as well as beef cattle (tho I find beef boring), well brought up poultry and pigs, oyster and mussel farms and fishing ports. Lamb tends to be Welsh or Scottish so not sure what'll happen to that.
Still have to by foreign bananas for OH's breakfast and citrus fruits tend to be Spanish or Moroccan. We like avocados and mangoes too and they're definitely not local..
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Brexit affects anything imported or exported, be it foodstuffs or manufactured goods or services as well as the value of the pound and investment in factories so jobs and livelihoods.
If there's no deal, there'll be changes to border controls, checks and tariffs on everything because you have to go to WTO rules or you can't trade as EU rules will no longer apply and, so far, they only have deals with the Falklands and Switzerland as I understand it.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Brexit shouldn't affect Bananas - they don't grow that many in Europe do they ?
no, but as all the UK's trade deals are through the EU, the only deals 'ready to go' if we leave with no deal are with Chile, Switzerland, Mauritius, Madagascar, the Seychelles, Zimbabwe, Turkey and the Faroe Islands. We may be OK for fish, cuckoo clocks and actually bananas (they grow them in Madagascar, don't they?). But for most other things we'll have to grow our own for a while.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Might make more people take up gardening to grow there own. I work as a school janitor in my village Primary School and help run the garden club. Many of the local schools in the area have garden clubs a lot of the kids are really interested in gardening and love it they are the future.
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We still have English apples here and of course lots grown in Cornwall, potatoes, greens and cauliflowers.
Still have to by foreign bananas for OH's breakfast and citrus fruits tend to be Spanish or Moroccan. We like avocados and mangoes too and they're definitely not local..
If there's no deal, there'll be changes to border controls, checks and tariffs on everything because you have to go to WTO rules or you can't trade as EU rules will no longer apply and, so far, they only have deals with the Falklands and Switzerland as I understand it.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”