Arzosah wrote:I've got chives, raspberries and rhubarb that I've cropped - I have to pluck up my courage and try to make some lemon balm pesto, because the thing is expanding at a rate of knots - brilliant camouflaged food plant in the front garden!
Now I never thought of lemon balm pesto, is that something you make regularly?The lemon balm plant is like a Triffid-unstoppable.
I think the bit I've bolded gives me away here never done it in my life I keep meaning to do this sort of stuff, but with the lurgy having been so bad over the last year - six months, in two different illnesses - its all I can do to carry on getting things straight. If tshtf before then, well, I'm boogered
Still enjoying the raspberries and chives - and my pruning of the strawberries has worked, the fruits are a better size this year.
Fantastic links! Brilliant!
It is good that you woke feeling well. I do understand. My Wife has stomach problems that make her feel poorly quite often. I know when she feels good because she smiles good health and well being are so important-the MOST important thing.
Just had a lovely meal that included home grown spuds(Pentland Javelin) and peas (Champion of England).they are a climbing pea, allegedly saved from a handful of peas from an old girl in Lincolnshire. Because they climb, they are good for small spaces.
A little triumph over the Global Food Machine.
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
cpslashm wrote:Last year I cut a big apple tree down to a 5 foot trunk. (Too much shading everything else and lots of tiny apples or nothing.) It's now sprouting near the top and I'll keep it pruned so hopefully get fewer, bigger apples next year.
Look up how to graft apple trees - it is not so hard to do and there is a lot of information (youtube videos) on the internet.
Have a look round now to see if you have any friends and neighbours who have good apple trees with lots of tasty fruit. The stems on the one you cut will probably reach pencil thickness by the end of this year. Towards the end of next winter take some cuttings off of the good trees and graft them onto the new stems of your tree. In a few years this will give you branches with "known good" apple varieties. You can even mix and match - eating apples on one side, cooking apples on the other.
I keep meaning to do this sort of stuff, but with the lurgy having been so bad over the last year - six months, in two different illnesses - its all I can do to carry on getting things straight. If tshtf before then, well, I'm boogered 
good health and well being are so important-the MOST important thing.