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Gardening: Do you have green fingers?
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Hi @gaz1960 when you post if you look at the icons above the edit box the picture icon to press is the fourth in from the right. If you have a picture on your device pick from the options and upload it or if you have saved one to memory use the url box and just paste the saved image into it, it does the rest. Good luck ?
“This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”
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This week is National Allotment Week! I've put together some information about accessible gardening which you might be interested in.
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I am very interested to find out if anyone has used the Disabled Facilities Grant to fund adaptions to a wheelchair friendly garden, things like raised beds and greenhouses that can have wider doors and pathways. I can not bend down or lift
When I spoke to and OOT she had only experience of adapting gardens for children -
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I am also interested in if people have their favourite microgreens for salads, I use parsley , fenugreek. coriander, chia, dill, cloves, chives and mung beans, and any suggestions, what goes with what?
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I don't know anything about microgreens I'm afraid @dkb123, but I do know that coriander doesn't go well with ANYTHING
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I suppose its a cultural thing
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Possibly @dkb123! I've also read that some people taste coriander differently to others...
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I don’t like sage funnily enough and I’m not keen on rosemary either. ?
“This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV -
some people are called supertasters, I was at a conference once and they gave us little white pills, and said, if you taste acid then you are ordinary, but if you taste sweet then you are a supertaster, they need people like this in clinical research trials
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That's so cool @dkb123! I'd love to try that. I think it's so interesting that we can all eat the same thing and experience it totally differently.
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See, I love sage and rosemary @leeCal!
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What foods are supertasters sensitive to?Supertasters are particularly sensitive to bitter flavours in foods such as broccoli, spinach, coffee, beer, and chocolate.
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Supertasters may be picky eaters- broccoli.
- spinach.
- Brussels sprouts.
- turnips.
- watercress.
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Hmm well I don't think I'm a supertaster then as I like all of those foods and drinks, other than maybe turnips. In fact, I like my coffee and chocolate quite bitter!
Thanks for sending the information! Do you work in the food industry? -
No, I used to work as a patients engagement manager recruiting people into clinical trials for the NHS
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dark chocolate may be a clue and it's not whether you like the food its how the different tastes present themselves
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Ahh right, cool job!
Oh I see. I might have to have some chocolate now as a test -
Hi Everyone
Has anyone any idea how to keep snails and slugs from eating flowers and veg in the garden? (Thinking of tomatoes p!ants especially) Tried using snail and slug pellets, but still they come.
Also have trouble with keeping cats away. Any idea's? -
line of salt around the plant and pick them off
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