Author Topic: Shortages or less plentiful?  (Read 7159 times)

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: Shortages or less plentiful?
« Reply #25 on: 08 February, 2017, 12:54:45 pm »

This is what the underlying cause (well aside from a lettuce shortage) is from what I heard.  There is a shortage and supermarkets are rationing so that restaurants and such don't just pile in and buy it all at once.


As I pointed out to my wife.  if you stick lettuce seeds in your garden, you will have. lettuce about 3-4 weeks later and lots of it.  It's gardening for kindergarten - they're about the easiest and quickest thing you can grow yourself.
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caerau

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Re: Shortages or less plentiful?
« Reply #26 on: 08 February, 2017, 01:27:26 pm »
Many but not all.  They'll grow into a full size lettuce in an old boot or plant pot or whatever too - inside as well as out.  In about 3-4 weeks.


Just saying, eat kale if you like :-)


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Re: Shortages or less plentiful?
« Reply #27 on: 08 February, 2017, 01:48:35 pm »
Many but not all.  They'll grow into a full size lettuce in an old boot or plant pot or whatever too - inside as well as out.  In about 3-4 weeks.


Not when it's frosty out generally. Winter varieties are tough and bitter.
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Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: Shortages or less plentiful?
« Reply #28 on: 08 February, 2017, 07:15:17 pm »
Many but not all.  They'll grow into a full size lettuce in an old boot or plant pot or whatever too - inside as well as out.  In about 3-4 weeks.


Just saying, eat kale if you like :-)
I love kale.
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Re: Shortages or less plentiful?
« Reply #29 on: 08 February, 2017, 07:44:52 pm »
Surely we should be eating to the season.

Re: Shortages or less plentiful?
« Reply #30 on: 08 February, 2017, 09:12:00 pm »
Lettuce pray that the shortages actually start to change the eating habits of the nation.
Noticed that Lidl? are now advertising U.K grown kale  as the calabrese shortage deepens.
Eventually the big supermarkets will shift some production back to U.K. and the consumer will be told that kale and purple sprouting broccoli are better for you and the environment than stuff grown in Iberia and trucked in to the U.K.
I think kale has a pretty high iron content IIRC. It is certainly very tolerant of frost, which calabrese isn't.
We all need to start eating according to the seasons of production . Airfreighting beans from Kenya or Peru is not sustainable.

caerau

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Re: Shortages or less plentiful?
« Reply #31 on: 08 February, 2017, 11:01:15 pm »
Season doesn't matter if you grow it inside.  FFS I'm just saying it's piss easy to grow *anywhere* if you really miss it.
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Gattopardo

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Re: Shortages or less plentiful?
« Reply #32 on: 09 February, 2017, 10:37:31 am »
The super soar away scum had an article that spain had over flowing shelves of the green stuff yet we are being rationed.....


caerau

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Re: Shortages or less plentiful?
« Reply #33 on: 09 February, 2017, 11:48:01 am »
Spain has never had it so good  ::-)
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Gattopardo

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Re: Shortages or less plentiful?
« Reply #34 on: 09 February, 2017, 12:05:27 pm »
If we are having rationing should everyone be happy...war spirit and all that.

Also what else are we going to leave in the bottom of the vegetable crisper to turn in to something like mush?

citoyen

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Re: Shortages or less plentiful?
« Reply #35 on: 09 February, 2017, 04:53:45 pm »
In other news: The Sun complains that the Arctic Circle is hogging all the snow.
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Re: Shortages or less plentiful?
« Reply #36 on: 16 February, 2017, 05:31:38 pm »
Whatever they were, they seem to be over now, plenty of sweet gem lettuce from Spain in the local Tesco last evening.
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Re: Shortages or less plentiful?
« Reply #37 on: 17 February, 2017, 10:20:52 am »
Plenty of courgettes in Barcelona market today. Perhaps they're keeping them all to show us what it will be like post Brexit

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