Veggies You Wouldn't Grow

[Snadger]

You two must be a cow .
I say why have kale when you can have savoy cabbage.

I have savoy cabbages in the lottie as well but they aren't a patch on my Tuskan, Curly or Red Russian kale!

Now you know why the bovine population always seem to have a smile on their face!

[Snadger]

CELERY !!!! UUUUURRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH. Sorry but definately the spawn of the Devil. I would rather lick the sweat from a tramps armpit !!!!!!. Minty x

Good for dieters tho, apparently! It takes more calories to eat a stick of celery than you get from the stick of celery!

[Sue]

Feel I've got to stand up for poor old celery.
I don't like eating it raw but it's essential for making vegetable stock and is good in soup either celery and potato or mixed veg.
It's also good as an ingredient in mixed veg dishes like a crumble or hot pot.
If it's for cooking I wash and break up a celery plant and freeze the stalks in ones and twos and then you can just add one or two to a dish.
And if you dry and grind it, can mix half and half with salt to cut down on your salt intake.

Non-trenching celery is not hard to grow either as long as it's kept well watered.

And hairy runner beans???? there are plenty of non-hairy runner beans - King of the Beans for me - I'm going to grow even more next year now I've found HFW's runner beans with tomato recipe, ideal way to freeze them for the winter.

And you can get to like most veg, have conquered my beetroot, chard and spinach hatred, still working on the parsnips though. And there's always a way to cook something so as you'll like it. Am trying to eat from my allotment only as well, so in the winter have had to get used to some previously much unloved veg. Gosh cabbage as well, forgot that and kale. Hated them all before I started growing them but was determined not to waste my precious crops.

Sue

Sue

[vegnut]

this is my first 'proper' full year coming - so the world's my oyster

Yes, me too, but iv'e had plenty of growing time in pots and the garden before. So i'm confident enough to say that there isn't much i wont grow. Give me the seeds, and i'll grow them, or at least try .
Now i have my lottie, i'm gonna go mad and grow grow grow. I don't like all veggies, but i will either find a different way of cooking them or someone else will like them.
Not to keen on Parsnip, but OH loves them,
Love Broad Beans But OH hates them, Maybe i will give them a miss, cos there is always someone that'll swap some other produce for a few. That will keep me happy .
And just for the record, i love celeriac