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Message: [QUOTE="Bootsy, post: 102757, member: 1995"] I'm reviving this thread as I've only just found it. :) Edible growing area about 1,500sq ft of vegetable space and a fruit (trees and soft fruits) wildflower area of about 4,000sq ft. Most of the garden (nearly 3/4 acre) is trees, shrubs, perennials, flowers and lawns. We don't grow a vast variety of veg nowadays as the work is getting too hard for us. So root vegetables are no longer grown (they're very cheap to buy anyway). We grow a large variety of green and yellow beans, marrows, zucchini, tomatoes, artichokes (both globe and Jerusalem), onions, garlic, cauliflower, broccoli, chillies (only hot ones), apples (eating and cooking), pears, plums, rhubarb, blackberries, raspberries, passionfruit - may have forgotten some o_O Soft fruits are frozen whole [ATTACH=full]19469[/ATTACH] Garlic needs nothing done and lasts until the next crop [ATTACH=full]19470[/ATTACH] Our passionfruit are not particularly tasty so we give them away [ATTACH=full]19471[/ATTACH] Eating apples are eaten or sold and cooking apples are cooked down and frozen [ATTACH=full]19472[/ATTACH] Pears are eaten and sold (some are frozen) [ATTACH=full]19473[/ATTACH] Tomatoes (these are black ones), plum toms are frozen and others are eaten or sold [ATTACH=full]19474[/ATTACH] Chillies are eaten (we eat a lot) or preserved in coconut oil and a lot of plants (only Naga chillies) are sold to the Bangladeshi community [ATTACH=full]19475[/ATTACH] We eat a vast amount of beans and used to blanch and freeze the surplus but now sell the surplus [ATTACH=full]19476[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]19477[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]19478[/ATTACH] The surplus beans can be quite a lot and this was one day's pickings (picked three times a week in height of season) [ATTACH=full]19479[/ATTACH] All proceeds from sales go to a local charity (mentally handicapped children) and the taxman adds another 25% to whatever we give to the charity (it's called Gift Aid). All other edibles are eaten by us apart from rhubarb which is either eaten, frozen or sold. [/QUOTE]

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