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Best Christmas present.. kind of garden related.

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Cheers @Skandi
    I can see what you mean about the squash.
    I often make a spiced butternut squash soup and I reckon that I could add some chicken and a few more spices and it would pass as a Thai or Malaysian chicken curry. It would be a lot healthier than the full-fat coconut milk I currently use.

    I'll have to experiment


    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    That looks amazing @Skandi!  Being blessed with a really fabulous greengrocer in our little town, as well as an excellent wholefood shop and deli, we tend to buy what we don't grow, fresh.  B'nut squash doesn't hang around - it all gets used up one way or another.  Really impressed with how advanced the way you can use electricity is.  Is electricity privatised in Denmark - or controlled by the state?

    I bought myself a ball of twine for Christmas!  Nothing else gardening related this year. 
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    edited January 2023
    I was given a wrought iron stand with 3 shelves to sit on our south facing terrace and grow strawberries on it - at least that's the plan, if I can outwit the squirrels that is.

    I've also today bought myself a Xmas presie of a new pruning saw plus secateurs.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    A wildlife trailing camera. I still have to set it up though. 

    Luxembourg
  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    pansyface said:
    A ball of twine.  You can never have too much twine.
    Didn't get one. 😑 But all string used for wrapping presents (I like this fashion for string instead of sparkly plastic) has been carefully collected and it is now resting in the string box. 

    Luxembourg
  • I always try to recycle my twine by collecting any taken off canes etc and using them again, even if it means tying more than two lengths together to achieve the new required length. I keep them tidy by tying bunches of cut lengths around the centre with a piece of twine too short to do much else with.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Ooooo shiny :o  My dehydrator is a bog standard cheapo one so I'm very jealous of that. It takes me all week to dry the apples from my tree.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • SuesynSuesyn Posts: 664
    I put all the little bits of twine in an old peanut bird feeder and hang it out in early spring as nesting material. I love watching the sparrows wrestling to get it out and in theory it should stop them stealing the twine currently in use. ( It doesn't but I live in hope).
  • A wildlife trailing camera. I still have to set it up though. 

    These are so addictive but in the best way possible!
    New England, USA
    Metacomet soil with hints of Woodbridge and Pillsbury
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