[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yes, it's a flowering plant. The fruit look like tomatoes but are poisonous. But sowing seeds has some disadvantages for potatoes.

First, unless you take precautions the plants you grow will cross with others around, you'll end up with a mish mash of variety characteristics in the progeny. Maybe good, maybe bad.

Second, any tubers your sown seeds make in the first year will be tiny, it might take several years of keeping tubers and replanting before you get anything worth eating.

So unless you're experimenting it's more productive to not eat a few tubers and replant them for the next years crop. More consistent flavour and a bigger crop.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Stoneware is the worst. I have 50+ year old hand me down ceramics that seem tough as hell. New stuff ends up chipped, cracked and broken far too soon.

I'm certain that modern tableware is built to fail compared to what it's possible for modern ceramic science to create.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The old ice cream brain freeze feeling, only it doesn't stop till you stop cycling...

I get by with a snood under my helmet pulled down to my eyebrows and another from below pulled up over my nose. But then I've not cycled in lower than -3C, I think.

Maybe you need a full face helmet and goggles? Money aside...

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Can we not just get rid of the traffic instead?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ice age? No. Western Europe will have cder winters and hotter summers.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Tried to grow them in our greenhouse and failed. (Scotland)

No idea where to buy them, just pointing they're quite hard to grow here.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, we move ours into our glass house over winter. I also made it an insulated jacket out of plasticky padded envelopes and duct tape ๐Ÿ˜€

It's come through temperatures of -7C that way. The worms will all go deep and huddle to stay warm.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I'm assuming a worm farm is what we call a wormery in Britain. The main thing about wormeries and bokashi is they can take cooked food waste, that's not usually advised for composting.

So in part I think it depends what your source material will be.

Our wormery can get a bit whiffy, though it's not noticeable until you take the lid off to put more stuff in. Still, not sure I'd want it inside. Bokashi seems designed for indoors.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Every couple of weeks during the summer, once a month over the winter. Used to do it weekly, but decided I should probably let it heat up more between turns.

I do it by getting a fork and properly turning and mixing it. Very physically demanding!

I only really have the one 800 litre bin though. I think the let it sit strategy works better when you have 2 or more, just layer well and let nature do the mixing!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ours go into the recycling. Not sure what they get recycled into. Have a vague memory of them getting shredded and mixed with resin to make insulation boards.

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