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My lightbulb moment happened about 15 years ago when I went to visit a friend in London. We were walking down the street and passed a stall selling fruit & vegetables, and in amongst the usual suspects was a pile of yellow courgettes. Green courgettes were rare enough where I was living at the t...

Hi Sarah & welcome,

Hope you like it here, everyone is really friendly & helpful!

Hi,

Yes, I spotted that forum discussion, it's the only info I've seen so far on growing in the UK. Thanks for posting it (or I'd have never found it again!)
Will give them a go next year, and post if I get any results!

Has anyone here ever tried to grow Maca (Lepidium meyenii)?
All I know is what Wikipedia has to say (and I'm always a bit wary of wikiwisdom, it being a giant hive mind with some pockets of idiocy)

So any advice/warnings would be very appreciated!

Hello & welcome!

I really recommend having a go at making cider, it's pretty simple, very messy & a lot of fun (as is drinking the results!)

Hello from a recent de-lurker!

Hope you like it here, everyone is very friendly & helpful!
I love the picture of your cat!

Well I cut through one crossways today, and it has a star, so it looks like its a crabapple (I've never seen a red crabapple before!)

thanks for all the advice!

Hi Jampot! When I first saw the fruits I thought they looked like rosehips, as there remains of the flowers (style, stamen, whatever-it-was) were still on the end, though they seem to have fallen off now. I seem to recall crabapples having 5 seeds in a star shape when cut across the middle, like a r...

I moved into a new place in North Lincs a couple of months ago, and there is a tree (not a giant tree, it's the same height as the wild cherry next to it) planted just out front on the roadside that for the life of me I can't identify. It has been in fruit throughout september, and they have been dr...

Thanks for all the warm welcomes!
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Hello!

thank you, it was roasted with a bit of black pepper & a dill. It was supposed to go into a recipe, but was eaten straight out of the baking tray instead!

Hello! I've been an avid reader of The Ish for the best part of a year now, but have only just gotten around to signing up here (I'm slow but I get there eventually) I've recently moved to North Lincolnshire, UK (from Sheffield, so not that much of a migration, more of a shuffle really) for a life o...