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Hi Everyone,
We've lurked here for quite a long time and have now finally got round to registering
We have a couple of allotments locally in Huddersfield and much to our neighbours amusement share our garden with a variety of animals. Chickens, ducks, rabbits, bees and the dogs year round and for a short while each year there are normally a couple of weaners being fattened for the freezer. Of course they think we're mad but they enjoy our surplus eggs and the sausages and salami they get at Christmas so everyones a winner. I've just not managed to persuade them to take another Kg or two of jerusalem articokes yet
Tom
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Courgettes aren't a problem as they get turned into chutney and that goes down really well! The JA s would end up back on our doorstep
Now I tend to bury them in the pigs area once it's been vacated and let the next pair find them the following year
John
tis true courgettes are never a problem - although i still haven't finished 2005 chutney yet... so it could become a problem.... but we freeze them and cook so many things with them - great crop
J.A.s have heard of them being grown for pig food. turn em into bacon... best way
Red
I like like minded people... a bit like minded anyway.. well people with bits of their minds that are like the bits of my mind that I like...
I'm just growing my first crop of courgettes, in a pot. The plant is busy growing like crazy and there are a few small courgettes I can spy in there... so I'm looking forward to a bumper crop :)
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