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

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Broccoli is on the compost heap. To be honest, they weren't great specimens anyway.
    I have replaced them with the courgettes that I had in containers.
     Courgettes comply with the no bug hiding place specification😋
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • stewyfizzstewyfizz Posts: 161
    My grandad would be laughing. One of his favourite sayings when getting stuff out the garden was (in thick Black Country accent): "Me mon yowve godda ate a speck 'o dert fower ya duy".
    Roughly translated as "My man,  you will unknowingly eat many things before one departs this earth. So don't worry about it."
    Gardening. The cause of, and solution to, all of my problems.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I don't mind a speck o dert so long as it isn't moving
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ForTheBeesForTheBees Posts: 168
    If it wasn't for this thread I wouldn't have double checked the mint leaves I picked yesterday and would have chowed down on some aphids...
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Result!
    Actually, my concerns (not a phobia!) do not include aphids. However, I would choose to avoid them😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Same with my basil - you’ve got me both laughing and paranoid now, B3.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Vigilance is not paranoia -usually.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    edited July 2019
    I salt our cauliflower but still put on X3 reading glasses to check each piece.
    Close up and deeply into every orifice.

    One slug is one too many. It put me off Cauliflower cheese for years, and that is my all time favourite vegetable meal.

    A layer of bacon and extra cheese on top with BCB's.......

    Totally understand the broccoli camouflage situation.
    B3 said:
    I don't mind a speck o dert so long as it isn't moving
    :D
  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    Baked snails are delicious 🤣 just saying 
    To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That may well be, I've never tried them. But finding a cooked homeless snail on your plate of veg is another matter😝
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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