@Ergates - I have baby PSB and cavolo nero about an inch high to nurture, grow on and hide from the chooks. If they continue to refuse to eat the bloody sprouts the compost heap will have a feast. There are limits to how many OH can eat!
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)."
Wish I could grow them. I bought mine in Waitrose, but they have done away with bags to put them in, and I needed to weigh them on the scales to get a price ticket. You should have seen me, taking a couple of handfuls at a time to the scales, weighing them and putting them into my shopping bag. Two trips to get enough, must remember that next time. Shame the chooks won’t eat them.
I'm actually rather relieved @Ergates. Just imagine eggs tasting of Bloody sprouts!
Seriously, could that actually happen? I know that milk can taste funny if cows eat wild garlic..... No, I suppose otherwise free range eggs might taste of insects or bugs, not that I’d know, I’ve never tried them! The bugs, that is.
Our chooks get a tin of sweetcorn every day plus a seed mix for laying hens which includes linseed and free range pecking and pottering over 2 acres of plot. Garden is too fancy a term for it yet. There is a huge difference in flavour and colour between their eggs and organic eggs from the SM so why wouldn't they absorb sprout flavours?
It's the sulphuric bits that get me. I love all other brassica so far.
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)."
Fascinating! I had no idea. Sweetcorn flavoured eggs would make a nice omelette, but sprout flavoured sponge cakes? Not so sure! Reminds me of the time my sister was making profiteroles for a party, and left the whipped cream in the fridge next to something garlicky. We decided to skip the chocolate sauce, and called them savoury choux buns instead.
Brussels Sprouts! I’m useless at growing fruit and veg, so I was delighted to find some UK grown Brussels sprouts in the supermarket this week. One of my favourite vegetables. We are having them for lunch today with roast potatoes, Yorkshire puds and an experimental nut roast. Can’t wait!
If you start boiling them today, they should be soft in time for Dec 25th
I love sprouts as long as they aren't cooked the way my mother and mother-in-law used to cook them. That is pretty much as described above.
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It's the sulphuric bits that get me. I love all other brassica so far.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I love sprouts as long as they aren't cooked the way my mother and mother-in-law used to cook them. That is pretty much as described above.