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[JanW]

Good afternoon waiting to be picked up so caught up on all your posts - my iPad didn’t like me watering it when watering the garden and the repairman was very slow and very annoying
I grew the new variety twisted cauliflower - the leaves spiral up over the cauliflower - the packet said the leaves are full of nutrients and very edible so I just cut the middle out and have been making soup and smoothies with the leaves and now another cauliflower is growing out the side of the stalk so that packet of seeds is certainly paying for itself - the soup made with the leaves is mor3 flavoursome than the cauli.The commercial growers are struggling to break even - if anybody thinks climate change isn’t real talk to a veggie grower - they are continually having to replant plus the cost of fuel - diesel is now more expensive than 91 thanks to Putin - we already had the highest transportation costs in the OECD and now GST has been added to road user charges and operating licences so the growers costs are up again .Sad thing is more and more growers are considering selling their land to developers and we will be eating Chinese grown cauliflowers .Robie is charging 10c more than he pays for a cauli and all his costs need to come out of that 10c
Yesterday I swapped some of my excess cucumber seedlings on the local Facebook barter page - the lady who wanted the seedlings had rhubarb but I wanted lemonade/limes - so a lady who had oranges wanted rhubarb so she swapped her oranges for limes then came and swapped me for the rhubarb I had swapped for my two cucumbers - we all had a good laugh as we are all within a block of one another
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