What would we run out of first?

[pseudonym]

Play nice the pair of you or the fickle finger of fate* will be called into action.


* Either that or the ban hammer, your choice.

[redskies]

Play nice the pair of you or the fickle finger of fate* will be called into action.


* Either that or the ban hammer, your choice.

I found what passes for block here

[MissAnpassad]

We don't live in the city. We are a minimum of four and a half hours travel from any city. In an area where things that grow elsewhere in the UK won't grow because of our microclimate.

I find it quit hard to believe that you can find a place in the UK with harsher growing conditions than here. And by he way, I wrote forage, not grow. Where in the UK do you have a subarctic climate?

Many items move around the world in such a context, starting with the phone, tablet or PC that you are using and moving on from there.

I don't think we have the same definition and interpretation of organic, given the context you've used it in.

What in gods name was that? And for your information, I don´t even own a phone and my computer is salvaged, so your attempt to try and turn the blame on me failed miserably. I don't even buy cotton unless is it's secondhand and I definitely don't buy petroleum by products like polyester, so you can't try that one either.
Yes, our definitions of organic is miles apart, mine actually is. It will never include products with unnecessary shippings.

There is little actually made in the UK. Seriously. We can't even feed ourselves off the land - if we'd only been eating our own home grown food this year, the cupboard would have been bare about the middle of August.


Take your sanctimonious waffle and stuff it. I have far better things to do with my time.


PS. Growing conditions don't have to be arctic to be untenable for many plants. You might find it hard to believe that such places exist in the UK, but they do. No, I am not telling you where, because that would give away my location. You can say you're from Sweden, safe in the knowledge that folk would have to work quite hard to find you. If I tell you where in the UK I live, anyone reading the info can track me down in about ten minutes flat.

I don't think you read what I write, I wrote FORAGE, wich means that you don't grow the plants on farmland. Because a lot of land can't be used to produce food, so your argument don't work.

And thank you, I wrote my first post with the best of intensions, so many people like you think that organicly grown/produced is the same thing as organic and spread the "wonders" of that product online. You were the one that decided to behave like an arse.

I actually cheked where you live, it is fully possible to grow more than you can grow here, you just need to buy more adapted plants, like from a nursery here. We even have figs that can grow about halfway up the country.

[MissAnpassad]

Play nice the pair of you or the fickle finger of fate* will be called into action.


* Either that or the ban hammer, your choice.

Okay. I was nice, but I don't continue to play nice when someone misbehaves.

[Deeps]

[jansman]

Don't you start

[diamond lil]

Meanwhile back at the ranch... I second what was said about Poyntzfield, I buy from them too.

[redskies]

Meanwhile back at the ranch... I second what was said about Poyntzfield, I buy from them too.

Have you been to visit, Lil? Such a beautiful, tranquil place

[Deeps]

Don't you start

Sorry, couldn't help it.

[Arzosah]

They're just seeds from standard lemons. I start them off in a self watering container made from an old wine bottle, and put a bag over the top of the soil. When they're germinated, the bag comes off and as they get big enough, they go onto larger pots. We'll get lemons from them when they're older! We have a storey and a half house, so our bedroom, which is west facing, has a velux window - it's a perfect wee green house. I have the trees, various culinary herbs like basil, and arnica, witchazel, tea tree and golden seal plants too. If we can ever find a spot for a walipini, I'll be growing a LOT more!

Thats downright impressive!

Medicinally, the following basic list is what I consider useful, especially as we have facilities to dry, freeze dry and are building equipment to distill essential oils.


Rosemary yes
Sage yes
Lavender yes
Geranium
Tea Tree
Echinacea
Witchazel yes, unbelievably, a ten foot high tree!
Arnica
Clary Sage
Peppermint mint, but not peppermint, I don't think
Turmeric bought lots from the shops
Ginger ditto

If you want seeds or plants, I can't recommend Poyntzfield Herb Nursery highly enough. We visited this year on a trip to the area, and it's one of the most amazing places I've ever been - and that's before I spent an hour wandering around oohing and ahhhing over the plants she has. Place was built in the mid 1800's and the kaleyard is huge and surrounded by 12ft walls. She's got glass houses and poly tunnels in there too, and the whole carries an air of incredible serenity and life. Lady that runs it clearly knows her stuff, and is extremely talented. Their online list of medicinal herbs pretty much made me drool, and a friend who likes to cook did likewise over the list of culinary herbs - we came back with a car full of plants for the pair of us! You'll find her website here - http://poyntzfieldherbs.co.uk/

I've heard of them, thanks. I see they sell the plants, not just the seeds - thats what I'd go for. They have a basil mint too - that might be an awful lot easier than growing lots and lots of basil.

Its all a bit addictive, isn't it...


eta - right, I'm definitely getting rid of the useless, unattractive foliage plants in my border