Turnip heads

[pete75]

neeps tatties and haggis - nowt wrong with a bit of that,. nation dish up here

Great chieftain o' the puddin-race!
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,

Beats roast beef and Yorkshire pud any day, in my opinion.

[briansnail]

Good Turnips are available. Why are Brussel sprouts (now 95 p for a packet) something only a few supermarkets seem to do?.They do Broccoli with no problem
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[Audax67]

Yes, out of season food should be a treat - if it has travelled well and tastes good. Life is all about contrast and never going without makes for an unappreciative palette. Most tomatoes at this time of year are poor, although there were some very good Italian ones in Aldi last month.

If. Old codgers such as I will remember eating Christmas-stocking oranges that would curl your face up. "It'd poison the Pope" was my dear mama's usual verdict. We ate them, though: couldn't waste them.

[Paulatic]

Good Turnips are available. Why are Brussel sprouts (now 95 p for a packet) something only a few supermarkets seem to do?.They do Broccoli with no problem
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I imagine the big growers target their Brussels Sprout crops for the Christmas market and a lot of those stalks now grubbed out ready for the next crop.

[colin54]

Who'd be a grower, sheep noshing on a large field of cabbages left unpicked yesterday in W.Lancs. I've seen a field of two crops of a lettuce variety left to rot into the ground two years running, not sure why.

[Jdsk]

Who'd be a grower, sheep noshing on a large field of cabbages left unpicked yesterday in W.Lancs. I've seen a field of two crops of a lettuce variety left to rot into the ground two years running, not sure why.

The most commonly quoted reason is shortage of labour.

Jonathan

[Nearholmer]

I thought eating a lot of cabbage all at once caused bloating in sheep, to the point of it being dangerous to them.

[thirdcrank]

I thought eating a lot of cabbage all at once caused bloating in sheep, to the point of it being dangerous to them.

Somebody else who read Far from the Madding Crowd at O Level? :wink:

[Nearholmer]

I thought it was clover that caused it in that?

But yes, that did indeed put me onto the subject of bloated sheep, and years ago when I was in the Sealed Knot one of our guys was a sheep farmer, so I asked him about it, and cabbages were one of the things he mentioned.

[Jdsk]

Yes... "young clover".

Jonathan

[[XAP]Bob]

Who'd be a grower, sheep noshing on a large field of cabbages left unpicked yesterday in W.Lancs. I've seen a field of two crops of a lettuce variety left to rot into the ground two years running, not sure why.

The most commonly quoted reason is shortage of labour.

Jonathan

For which there is an obvious explanation... now if only I could remember what it was...

[Jdsk]

Who'd be a grower, sheep noshing on a large field of cabbages left unpicked yesterday in W.Lancs. I've seen a field of two crops of a lettuce variety left to rot into the ground two years running, not sure why.

The most commonly quoted reason is shortage of labour.

For which there is an obvious explanation... now if only I could remember what it was...

It couldn't possibly be that... I remember being told in this very forum that the pay of UK workers would simply go up to compensate...

Jonathan

[pete75]

The most commonly quoted reason is shortage of labour.

For which there is an obvious explanation... now if only I could remember what it was...

It couldn't possibly be that... I remember being told in this very forum that the pay of UK workers would simply go up to compensate...

Jonathan

But not, apparently, their work ethic.

[offroader]

There's more to it than just labour.

Last year our domestic growers reached out to the government for finance assistance with the skyrocketing costs of running poly tunnels in an energy crisis. The gov said no dice we'll just import more from overseas so domestic growers didn't plant veggies.
There's also some Brexit effect as it's introduced red tape and cost to shipping produce to the UK making it more financially sensible for EU producers to ship to eu consumers

Long story short ukgov chose imports over domestic and a couple of crop failures later here we are

If you search Harry's Farm on YouTube he covers this and some other "interesting" ukgov policies in a video posted yesterday, Feb 24th

[tim-b]

A lot of the problems of supply are down to unusual weather in the Med, which prompts questions about climate change, and fuel costs in the UK and Netherlands, which prompts questions about the fossil fuel use and climate impact of heated greenhouses.

+ 1 gazillion

DEFRA and our politicians are massively more culpable than Brexit https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/fruit-and-v ... 61.article