Off-Topic III: The Revengening!

[Wolfshade]

Do not underestimate the amount of time and effort that you need to put into an allotment.

Other allotmenters will generally be very useful and handy with advice.

The tools you will need:

Spade
Fork
Hoe (dutch)
Watering Can
String
Bamboo Canes

If they have a communal compost heap that is very useful, otherwise you might want to get your own small one on your plot.

[Mr Mystery]

Yep. Spuds are notoriously unfussy growers. There's many ways and means you can get a higher yield, but generally speaking they'll grow with minimum hassle.

One of the best things? Leave a few in the soil, and boom, another crop out of them!

I'd quite like to grow enough that I can give my friends random veg boxes!

As for compost - none of them are really walking distance from my flat, so would be limited to organic matter from the allotment itself.

Quite happy to put the work in. Better exercise than going down the gym, and I get tastynumnums out of it too. And....one is even allowed to keep chickens, if one wanted. Which one doesn't. Sounds like too much hassle.

[Wolfshade]

I read something online about growing potatoes in a big rubbish bag full of soil mix to save garden space once, wish I could find that. Idea being it lets people with no or very limited garden space grow a staple starch.

I've grown potatos in sacks before. It is brilliant way to do it for two reasons.
1: You need much less space per plant as you can "earth up" the potato in the sack without having to balance a pyramid of soil around the plant
2: Harvesting is simplisity itself. I've had many a runaway potato plants pop up where I didn't want them as I failed to lift one or two.

The down side is that you don't get the benefit to the soil if you do that.

[Psychosplodge]

[URL="http://syrynvalentyne.tumblr.com/post/93002400857/iguanamouth-so-the-first-four-hoards-were-so"]Uncommon dragon hordes Part two[/URL]

[Mr Mystery]

Companion planting eh? [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companion_planting]Sounds like a low maintenance clever trick[/url].

And I do like clever tricks. Especially those that involve infuriating insects to the point where they just nick off somewhere else!

Right. Pull finger out, apply for allotment!

Application pending. Seems they're around £40 a year, plus a one off £10 for the padlock key for to let you in.

Well excited about this!!

[Psychosplodge]

Oh gods the feels, poor ickle [URL="http://van-tallis.tumblr.com/post/92958345779/genuine-gross-sobbing-o"]Eevee[/URL]...

Also has anyone ever played "Oubliettes & Ogres"?

[Wolfshade]

[Mr Mystery]

Yep.

Still expecting it to be utterly, utterly awful.

Bat Affleck? WW reduced to a bit part? Same guy that did the frankly laughable Man of Steel?

[Kirsten]

Margarine really is an abomination. Stop using it unlss yo literally can't afford butter.

according to QI you can't get margarine in Britain any more anyway

I don't have anything against vegetables, but I wouldn't want my daughter to marry one.

lol

Cheating the mash at the moment. I don't get through bags of spuds quick enough.

I find the same, it is a pain, I am really partial to mash. cooking for one is so much more expensive per person than cooking for more, so many fresh foods only come in bulk and go off before I can use them.

You are actually just rattling off facts over why factory farming is economically better, ergo, defending it's existence. If more people actually just ate organically then there would be no need for vegetarianism. Cruelty to animals, on any level, in any setting, is evil and abhorrent. Tolerance of this is JUST as bad.

actually most organic farming is a nonsense, it doesn't actually mean anything, and can lead to animals/crops being far less healthy because they are not properly cared for. many of the products prohibited in organic farming are actually perfectly normal chemicals, but people go 'omg chemicals' as though everything in the world isn't some sort of chemical or another. free range is really the only criteria to worry about, organic is just ripping you off.

also everything Wolfie is saying about farming methods and reasoning is entirely true.

[Wildeybeast]

Why has Wolfie not been pulled up on referencing a 'science' article in the Daily Hatemail?