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Daily Mouthfulness

sustainedpeacesustainedpeace Posts: 3
in Fruit & veg
I am new to my allotment, but would like to know how practical it is [the requirements] to be self-sufficient. Has anybody achieved this: there must be a guideline as to what specific things to grow. What's knowledge is on the great-vine. Rsvp.

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Can you explain about the Daily Mouthfulness site please? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I feel spamfulness @Lyn😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • sustainedpeacesustainedpeace Posts: 3
    No.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    edited December 2020
    sustainedpeace said:
    No.
    Can you explain why you wrote it then please? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    I think it would be extremely time consuming and difficult to be self sufficient in vegetables and fruit but the advice given by @philippasmith2 is excellent. Enjoy your allotment. 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    True enough.  I'm currently cutting up small pumpkins (too small for us) and volunteer crosses like marrows and feeding them to our chooks.   Funnily enough they prefer the marrow kind to the mini orange ones. 
    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
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I thought it might be the colour but they're happy to peck my pink wellies and shredded orange dahlia flowers with glee. 
    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
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Yes, @philippasmith2 they certainly are!  I have tiny immature butternut, but my hen says "Not today, thanks!"  She loves peppers (fruit) and demolishes my pepper plants in the summer!   Needless to say, she is in lockdown during summer.  Free range and Garden Queen during the winter.  Now there is a faffer!
    To be self-sufficient?  Well, grow what you like to eat.  It's as easy as that!  Daily mouthfulness - now where did that come from?
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited December 2020
    Our chooks now have free range of the potager but I've netted off the garlic, shallots, PSB and broad beans.   They have made deep dust baths in the dry parts of the polytunnel but otherwise cleared the weedlings in there.

    Cultivate your neighbours too for useful swaps.  The ones with horses are happy to bung me a trailer full of horse poo in exchange for eggs and the beef farmers on the other side bring us cauliflowers which I find difficult and Brussels sprouts for OH as I hate them and won't grow them.
    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
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Is 'mouthfulness' like mindfullness?
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