Gardening: Do you have green fingers?

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  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    edited July 2020
    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 ?
  • Chloe_Alumni
    Chloe_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 10,506 Championing
    This week is National Allotment Week! I've put together some information about accessible gardening which you might be interested in. :)
  • dkb123
    dkb123 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 169 Empowering
    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 
  • Chloe_Alumni
    Chloe_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 10,506 Championing
    Really good point @dkb123! Thank you for adding this. :)
  • dkb123
    dkb123 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 169 Empowering
    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?
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,468 Championing
    I don't know anything about microgreens I'm afraid @dkb123, but I do know that coriander doesn't go well with ANYTHING ;)
  • dkb123
    dkb123 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 169 Empowering
    I suppose its a cultural thing 
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,468 Championing
    Possibly @dkb123! I've also read that some people taste coriander differently to others...
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    I don’t like sage funnily enough and I’m not keen on rosemary either. ?
  • dkb123
    dkb123 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 169 Empowering
    edited August 2020
    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 
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,468 Championing
    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.
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,468 Championing
    See, I love sage and rosemary @leeCal!
  • dkb123
    dkb123 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 169 Empowering
    What foods are supertasters sensitive to?
    Supertasters are particularly sensitive to bitter flavours in foods such as broccoli, spinach, coffee, beer, and chocolate.
    ...
    Supertasters may be picky eaters
    • broccoli.
    • spinach.
    • Brussels sprouts.
    • turnips.
    • watercress.
    From google 
  • dkb123
    dkb123 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 169 Empowering
    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/feb/12/are-you-a-supertaster

    interesting article 
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,468 Championing
    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?
  • dkb123
    dkb123 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 169 Empowering
    No, I used to work as a patients engagement manager recruiting people into clinical trials for the NHS
  • dkb123
    dkb123 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 169 Empowering
    dark chocolate may be a clue  and it's not whether you like the food its how the different tastes present themselves 
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,468 Championing
    Ahh right, cool job! 

    Oh I see. I might have to have some chocolate now as a test :D 
  • Dragonslayer
    Dragonslayer Online Community Member Posts: 2,164 Pioneering
    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?
  • dkb123
    dkb123 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 169 Empowering
    line of salt around the plant  and pick them off

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