I need to do this.

And he's in! Bingo! Here's to the new year and the new season 🥂

Your nut roast or your mother in law? 🥁

Lol, yeah, but more passive-aggressive: she (uncharacteristically) keeps playing reels from FB or TikTok at full volume, so my tunes get twisted with the Feliz Navidad song.

She's brought so many gifts that the kids are gonna think Santa is a tightwad, hence why I normally veto her for Xmas day 🙄

Interesting. Somehow, that technological tide completely passed me by.

All good tips. I deffo agree with the late harvest, the main problem is the longer I leave them the more get terminally munched. Maybe I should grow some sacrificial potatoes alongside? Although in a way, isn't that just encouraging the ruffians?

What variety is this? I've finally given up on mine, though only temporarily while I try to improve the soil. Heavy clay around here, which I don't think suits them. Interesting you say that wireworms avoid them, that's not been my experience, although it might it possibly be slug damage?

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My guess is that's a better nemesis to be facing than the bindweed which is everywhere here

Mate - 44C? Cripesin' Jehu! I mean, we're going that way here too, but I don't like to see it.

Looks like a proper pepper-forward recipe there - how did it work out?

I'm assuming you're on the opposite hemisphere to me, but in this crazy climate who knows? I've got chillies still bursting into flower, and it's winter solstice in 2 days 😟

In my experience, while theoretically you can, possibly, go wrong, you absolutely can't go wrong and these will be amazing!

Gradients 😍

Well said. It's the anger and the division that fuels them. They don't really care what side you support, so long as you've got something to hate. At least something that isn't them.

Nobody is free until we all are.

That was exactly the question I was going to ask! My ancient Magic Bullet used to do the trick, but now it barely gets to small flakes. To be honest I don't know if that's a problem or not, but I feel I'd at least appreciate the option to go finer.

Vibrant results, by the way, congrats!

When it's growing on your raised bed architecture, it kind of giveth as it taketh away. You know you're doing something right, but replacing the woodwork is heckuva expensive (environmentally as well as monetary).

Still, my heart always says enjoy it - we surely owe fungus a bit of habitat.

Not a lip salve, I'm guessing.

This is the kind of thing I worry about all the time. On the one hand you've got constant crosses, landraces and creeping mutations, on the other there's inbreeding. I like a degree of stability, predictability, but also appreciate the wild frontier. How is it to be managed? Can it even be?