The other thing i would say: go for spuds that are either rare or expensive. I’ve seen a purple new potato variety i would absolutely give my right eye teeth for, its purple to look at, and when you cut it open, its got purple flesh inside. There’s a blue variety available too. But even if not that, try something like pink fir apple – its a knobbly new potato but tastes absolutely divine. Something like that is worth growing – straight from the plot, tastes far better than anything the shops can produce. THAT is when growing yer own spuds is worth it.

Lettuce: try growing a butterhead lettuce, rather than the kind you’re growing now. These you crop the whole head in one go, and if you’re smart, you’ll sow successionally – so you only have say, three, to harvest in a week. Try little gem or cos lettuce, you might even be able to get iceberg. If its the crispiness of iceberg they like, try little gem. The other thing you can do, and again, do this successionally, sow a few seeds of the kind of lettuce you like (i.e. the bitterer kind) in a window box/pot (helps to keep them confined and frees up land for something else). harvest when they’re still quite small, baby size, they’ll be much less bitter that way.

carrots: try mixing the seed with sand, and sow that way. it’ll help spread them out.

yes, i am a mine of information. LOL. I’ve done a LOT of reading on this stuff over the last couple of years.. Oh and i answered your smelly socks question. :D

keth
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If so, it was written under Richard Bachman, not King. Word is he let it go out of print due to the school shootings. But his book of all four Bachman books would still have it in there…

I loved Duma Key myself, got very attached to the main character. (Someone mentioned Black House, and that was a favorite for a long time…Beezer reminds me of my biodad). Personally I liked “O” and the cat one in Just After Sunset…but nothing is better than the one with the coked-up doctor eating himself on the island. I can’t ever remember the name.

Best of luck with the garden!

:)

Okay, I’ll bite. What’s an industrial?

Dave

I was considering making brown sugar glazed carrots, but I’ve no idea what they taste like. Do you know?