Think we may well be facing a shortage of onions ... I'm related to one of the largest UK onion farmers (in both respects ) The yield here was down because of the drought and we're coming to the end of the stored UK crop. The yield was also down in the Low Countries who usually supply onions to us when we've exhausted our own crop. They don't need to sell us any this year ... they can sell their entire crop to the European mainland ... once onions come out of the climate controlled stores they don't keep very long in the lorries ... Dutch growers may decide not to risk their onions deteriorating in lorry queues when they have mainland customers.
We eat a lot of green vegetables in this household ... as has been said any hiatus is likely to come during The Hungry Gap ... before we joined the Common Market and imported vegetables from southern Europe became more available, this was a 'real' thing; so real that a variety of kale was named after it https://www.seedaholic.com/kale-hungry-gap.html. We relied on stored 'white' cabbage, late crops of Brussels sprouts (if the pigeons had left any) and looked forward to the purple sprouting broccoli appearing (again, what the pigeons could spare us), and of course, tinned 'processed' peas. Then frozen peas appeared and home freezers made a stock of frozen veg at home a reliable stock of 'fresh' veg.
I'm not hoarding, but I fully expect some hiccups ... I intend to make sure that, as usual, we have some frozen veg in the freezer, plenty of dried pulses and tinned toms in the pantry, and a January King cabbage or two and some celery and leeks in the fridge. That's the sort of thing we usually have in the fridge in March/April as we eat seasonally anyway, but if there is a hiccup or two more folk than usual may be buying cabbage rather than green beans ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Not hoarding either, always have dry,tinned,packet, staples in larder, and store cupboard, 2 freezers, one for my "own" fruit and veg, my home grown onions, pckled shallots, jam and marmalade. Fruit out of season gwon abroad, ie stawberries are completely tastless.
There are some lovely vegetables in England in winter. Here in France I never see tender stem broccoli or purple sprouting broccoli or kale, curly, plain or black, or decent broad beans that aren't hard and dry, unless I grow them myself. It's only fairly recently that I could buy butternut squash or parsnips. The parsnips here are from the UK. But I have grown them here.
In 1973, steel strike, 3 day week, the papers announced an oil shortage - there were people in the SM buying trolley loads of cooking oil! Papers meant petrol oil.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
In 1973, steel strike, 3 day week, the papers announced an oil shortage - there were people in the SM buying trolley loads of cooking oil! Papers meant petrol oil.
In 1973, steel strike, 3 day week, the papers announced an oil shortage - there were people in the SM buying trolley loads of cooking oil! Papers meant petrol oil.
You can use cooking oil in some diesel engines
Quite a few people do, when the fuel went up years ago they were emptying the SM shelves. I didn’t quite believe it until I saw the owner of a camper van fill his tank in morrisons car park.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
No confidence in common sense of anyone except a gardener
In the sticks near Peterborough
There are some lovely vegetables in England in winter. Here in France I never see tender stem broccoli or purple sprouting broccoli or kale, curly, plain or black, or decent broad beans that aren't hard and dry, unless I grow them myself. It's only fairly recently that I could buy butternut squash or parsnips. The parsnips here are from the UK. But I have grown them here.
In 1973, steel strike, 3 day week, the papers announced an oil shortage - there were people in the SM buying trolley loads of cooking oil! Papers meant petrol oil.