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OK. I tried growing vegetables but I'm too squeamish to eat them.

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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I had some spuds. They were ok. Nothing much can lurk in them
The broccoli was washed and cooked. But every stray bit on the plate was a caterpillar or a maggot that I'd missed. All right -it wasn't, but it could've been. 
I can't do it.
 Beans, tomatoes spuds and courgettes and other things with a definite shape and skin. I can manage but things where things can hide. I can't do it!
In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    The only year my mum grew cauli, they were blanched, frozen, and then cooked, and there was a small green no longer wiggling thing. My sister screamed the place down. Extra protein said my mum. Don't shout, they'll all want some.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I’m like that with blackberries, every one has a little maggot in it, I put them in a bowl of water with a sprinkle of salt, the creatures float to the top. Rinse the salt water off before eating.
    You have to use a very close net on brassicas,  scaffold netting or one I bought on amazon on a roll,  make a frame from something, , the butterflies can’t lay eggs on your veg through that.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    you have to choose twixt extra protein and extra chemicals that killed the protein :) 


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • EricaheatherEricaheather Posts: 204
    I'm the same. Grew spring onions and binned them. Grew raspberries, put one towards my mouth, nibbled, binned and gave the plant to a friend. Got strawberries and toms on the go and wondering how I'm going to fare with them once ripe. How do the supermarkets get rid of the crawlies?!
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    They spray, and spray, and spray. Unless you pay for organic.
  • edhelkaedhelka Posts: 2,351
    My OH is the same. I made once a nice salad with mixed homegrown salad leaves and he found one aphid there... and he then spent 5 minutes with every leaf checking for bugs.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I do the salt thing with brambles. You know you've got them.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • EricaheatherEricaheather Posts: 204
    You also then know they have been there once you have got them! This is the first year I've done any fruit or veg and I think I'll stick to flowers next year and stay ignorant lol
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Does not washing well or looking for blemishes solve the problem?
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I wash everything in salty water, especially brassicas. Amazing how many hidden green wigglers come out.
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