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HELLO FORKERS ... 🍄 October 2019

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  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    Feet are up @Dovefromabove and I've just demolished steak and chips followed by a wispa bar, feeling much better now. :)
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Just watching GW .....OMG who knew peanuts 🥜 came from roots 😱 .......feeling very uneducated 🤭🤪
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Not actually roots @chicky 😊...the fertilised flowers grow downwards and push themselves into the ground and that’s where the seed pods full of peanuts grow ... we grew them at school in botany lessons. 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Hmmm!   I knew they were below ground - other name is ground nuts - but not that they were just upside down and wrong way round.  We had broad beans for school biology - cotyledons and all that.

    I don't think I nevy you any part of that meal @Yviestevie but glad you enjoyed it.  Have a rest too tomorrow.


    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)."
    Plato
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    We didn’t grow anything in biology 🤔 ..... child of the seventies 🙄. However, will never look at peanuts in the same way 🥜 .  Every day’s a school day 😀😀😀
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494

    I'm feeling smug, baked a Dorset Apple cake this afternoon, using our own apples (not cookers though, according to Mary Berry on GW tonight). OH loves cake and I hardly ever bake (being on a permanent diet most of the time) so half of it has gone already!

    Found two jars of really out of date honey in the back of the cupboard and don't know what to do with it - would birds eat it or should I put it in our compost bin?

    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Just use it as honey on bread, toast, pancakes, roast ham etc.    If it's gone a bit crystalline just zap it in the microwave, minus lid, for 30 to 60 seconds until it goes fluid again.  It'll be fine. 
    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)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Obelixx said:
    Just use it as honey on bread, toast, pancakes, roast ham etc.    If it's gone a bit crystalline just zap it in the microwave, minus lid, for 30 to 60 seconds until it goes fluid again.  It'll be fine. 
    I agree. Honey doesn’t ‘go off’ ... eat it 👍 We don’t have a microwave so I’d put the jar in a bowl of hot water from the kettle and leave it a while. It’ll turn back into runny honey. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Morning all when you emerge.😄
    Im having another lazy day. Might have to get motivated soon. We actually had 3.5 mm rain last night. Amazing. 
    S. E. NSW
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    Hi @Pat E aches and pains keeping me awake just waiting for painkillers to take effect. Glad you had some rain. Judging by how Im feeling at the moment it might be a lazy day for me too. 
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
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