I fear I am turning into an Oompa Loompa!
"Oompa Loompa, do-ba-dee-doo,
I’ve got a perfect puzzle for you.
Oompa Loompa, do-ba-dee-dee,
If you are wise you’ll listen to me.
What do you get when a parsnip you chop?
A bleedin'
ORANGE stain you can't get off!"
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I prepared a load of parsnips - washed, peeled, chopped - ready for the freezer and I thought of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when I saw my hand! No amount of washing seems to have shifted it. I am going to get some industrial hand cleaner from work and give it a good scrub see if that shifts it.
What the hell is in parsnips?
I spent a fair bit of time up at the plot and sowed 2 rows of peas (Ambassador) in one of the raised beds in the bottom allotment and got various other beds ready for planting/sowing.
On the top allotment I put the last of the potatoes in - 20 Setanta and 20 Melody making 100 in total.
Like a lot of gardeners I am a bit behind after the cold March, I have peppers, cabbages, triffid like tomatoes, sweet peas, leeks, etc. in the conservatory and some peas in toilet roll inners in the greenhouse. I'm hoping to put the tomatoes in the greenhouse soon, I'll just need to watch for frosts as I have no heating in there but the candles under metal trays worked okay in previous years.
I need to sow some more stuff like courgettes, squashes, pumpkins, sweetcorn but it's probably a good thing I haven't done them yet as I am quite often tempted to push it a bit and sow stuff too early.
"Oompa Loompa, do-ba-dee-doo,
I’ve got a perfect puzzle for you.
Oompa Loompa, do-ba-dee-dee,
If you are wise you’ll listen to me.
What do you get when a parsnip you chop?
A bleedin' ORANGE stain you can't get off!"
*
I prepared a load of parsnips - washed, peeled, chopped - ready for the freezer and I thought of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when I saw my hand! No amount of washing seems to have shifted it. I am going to get some industrial hand cleaner from work and give it a good scrub see if that shifts it.
What the hell is in parsnips?
I spent a fair bit of time up at the plot and sowed 2 rows of peas (Ambassador) in one of the raised beds in the bottom allotment and got various other beds ready for planting/sowing.
On the top allotment I put the last of the potatoes in - 20 Setanta and 20 Melody making 100 in total.
Like a lot of gardeners I am a bit behind after the cold March, I have peppers, cabbages, triffid like tomatoes, sweet peas, leeks, etc. in the conservatory and some peas in toilet roll inners in the greenhouse. I'm hoping to put the tomatoes in the greenhouse soon, I'll just need to watch for frosts as I have no heating in there but the candles under metal trays worked okay in previous years.
I need to sow some more stuff like courgettes, squashes, pumpkins, sweetcorn but it's probably a good thing I haven't done them yet as I am quite often tempted to push it a bit and sow stuff too early.
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