The price of salad
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Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
What you growing?
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wobbly
What those three have suggested ^
I've just bought some lamb lettuce seeds, and funny looking round carrot seedsAlready got broccoli, spinach and tatoes on the go... all in grow bags or pots... only got a concrete garden
you can also do seed/bean sprouts for cheap green stuff in the winter. not just the ones you get in chinese foods, there are a lot of other things you can sprout.
subversplat
writer of wrongs
Could you get to one before you go to work? Markets and greengrocers are usually open scarily early in the morning
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wobbly
i got one of these, just have to dump a pint of water in it once or twice a day and empty the tray at the bottom,
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
When you're on maternity leave, you'll be able to visit greengrocers and markets galore.
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
Oooh ta, I'll have a look at that - can already taste alfalfa and houmous pittas
mr steev
magic thought wizard
If you haven't got a window sill how about rigging up a hanging basket in front of the window?
Plastic bread trays are handy to grow lettuces in too, as they don't need much soil depth
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
How do you grow a constant supply of salady stuff from a window box?
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
There are some salads that are pretty hardy all year round... I'm growing spinach in a window box (admittedly it's on the floor, but could easily be mounted on a window/railing).
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
I mean once you pick it you have to grow it again.
What do you do for salad in the interim?
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
Where did you get yours from toggle?
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
You stagger the planting/sowing so that another lot is already growing when you do the first harvest.
(so I'm told anyway... I'm doing this for the first time
)I know - it's going to be great having so much free time
For the time being I'll just have to have salads at the weekends when I have time to go to the grocers/stalls.
Can't during the week as the nearest one is too far and I don't get home in time from work
Before work is not an option either as I'd have to lug it on 2 trains and then back again.
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wobbly
i got mine in a local health food shop which probably won't help you, brand was biosnacky
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
If you haven't got a window sill how about rigging up a hanging basket in front of the window?
Plastic bread trays are handy to grow lettuces in too, as they don't need much soil depth
Trouble is i'm 2 floors up and i don't think the people under me would appreciate water etc trickling down into their windows !
and we have plastic framed windows so i'm not sure how i would go about it............probably against the HA rules too......can't go drilling and stuff willy nilly !
Herbsman.
Nah Lotion, Pet, Nor Powder.
Just went to Morrisons to get some salad for my tea tonight.
OMG - the red peppers have gone up from 79p to 99p each and the iceberg lettuce are now £1.09
I'm not going to be able to eat salad soon if it continues this way - I'm starting to feel the pinch now and it bloody well hurts.
Dont go to Morrissons then.
Pakistani supermarket red peppers = 99p a pound
I think about 4 large one weighs a pound.
My local one opens til 8pm and there are others that open til 9
alsoknownas
some bloke
Here's a little salad tip - most kebab shops will sell you a carton of salad for about £1.20. Fresher than any supermarket crap, and bloody delicious too (you can even have chilli sauce or garlic sauce if you want) :yum: .
mr steev
magic thought wizard
I was thinking of suspending something infront of your window inside (if you have no sils to put stuff on)
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
How are kebab shops salad fresher than a supermarket?
Surely they all come from the same place, the same werehouses and so on?
If anything, I wouldn't buy anything salady from a kebab shop round here judging by the rancid, flacid crap they put on their kebabs.
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
I was thinking of suspending something infront of your window inside (if you have no sils to put stuff on)
Would still only be in my bedroom and it just wouldn't be worth it imo !
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
Is there a place near work you could visit at lunchtime?Can't during the week as the nearest one is too far and I don't get home in time from work
Before work is not an option either as I'd have to lug it on 2 trains and then back again.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
I don't bother with cucumbers anymore
What you growing?
Lettuce, Rocket, potatos, peas, beans, broccoli, pumpkin, strawberry and uuum, i think that's it.
alsoknownas
some bloke
Cos supermarkets put nasties on their salad (in a packet). Whereas kebab man chops his up fresh daily. My local has a garlicky yoghurt sauce with fresh dill in it. Not too shoddy.
The flacidness may come from the lemon-juice and olive-oil they tend to marinate the cabbage in. I like it myself.
Rancidness I have yet to experience.
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
Is that since you visited Anne Summers?I don't bother with cucumbers anymore
I work in Blackfriars. There's a fruit stall near me which I buy all my fruit from but don't know of any that sell veg.
If anyone knows of any in the EC4 area please let me know
