Flic here and I have a couple of questions :D :D

Has anybody cooked vegetable spaghetti before ? I have the first of two that I have harvested and wondered the best way to do it :)

I have a surplus of courgettes and runner beans and so I have set up a little stall outside our front gate saying please take some but if you feel generous please leave some change which will go to charity :D So far I have made about £15 which I have sold about 6llbs of beans and about 10 marrows of varying sizes

I am being very trusting and have left a pot for people to put their money and so far most people have been putting a bit of money in. I did however catch a little so and so this morning with their hands in the pot but luckily they saw me dropped the money and scarpered :D

I don't think though I can make a living on selling veggies and give up work yet but trying :D :D

Also has anybody had much experience in planting Bamboo ? We have three bit pots which we have brought with us and are going to get them replanted to give some privacy but wondered about how to contain them so they don't overtake the garden :)

One more thing there is a really annoying cockerel which is getting on my wick :rolleyes::rolleyes: It is not that he wakes us up as don't mind that but he doesn't seem to know how to Cock-a doodle-doo properly :D :D He sounds like he is being strangled :D :D

Plant the bamboo in pots, or put a barrier around them. Tips here.

Eat the cockerel? :D

M.

Spagetti squash? I would bake it in the oven, bit longer than a butternut, cos they are usually bigger, don't know about your efforts ;)  When it is cooked (prod a knife through it) scrape out the seeds and then sort of scrag a fork through the flesh to flake it out into its "spagetti".  That'll go lovely with the roast cockerel :)

Had never heard of the spaghetti squash, had to go and look it up. How fascinating! As you say Isabel, will go very nicely with the bird ... ;)

M.

I would  never plant  bamboo in the ground.

When we were on holiday in France a couple of years ago the house we stayed at had a bamboo grove at the end of the garden. It was around 20-30 feet high and had invaded huge areas of the garden. The owners said they wished they had never planted it at all. It was growing all through the lawn and they had to mow a vast lawn every week, whether the grass needed cutting or not, in order to keep the bamboo down. Apparently it can grow up to 12inches a day and reach a height of up to 70 odd feet  depending on the conditions it is grown in.

Spaghetti squash is lovely and I tend to bake it as Isabel suggested :)

Size isn't everything Isabel ;) :D

They are about the size of a decent size Butternut. I have seen a recipe that says bake it for two hours which seems excesive unless they are talking about proper size ones and not our poor attempts :D :D Do you just shove it whole in the oven or cut it in half ?

I don't think they need anything like 2 hours.   I would test it with a knife for softness after about 50 minutes if it is butternut size, don't think it would need to go much over an hour.  Yes I would shove it in whole but if you wanted it to cook faster you could cut it in half, I do that with butternuts if they are large, but I place them cut side down and I don't know if the juice would run out of a spagetti as they are more watery.  Maybe that wouldn't be a bad thing I don't know.

I'm no help :D :D ;)

We don't have cockerels - only pheasants that 'crow' at 5am :D :D :D

Daisy

<only pheasants that 'crow' at 5am >

Oh yes.   And those that clack-clack-clatter-clatter-CROWK at 3am when Mr Fox tries to get too close to their roosting tree (in the copse on the other side of the lane, in the tree that is in direct line with our bedroom window!

Margot

LOL, Margot :D :D

Mind you, the noise that the foxes make at night is far, far worse :) :) :) Roll on the winter when the bedroom windows are firmly shut :D :D

Daisy

'Hedge veg' is what it's known as here!
A very common practice, and a great way to shop here for fresh produce.  Locally we know the best places at certain times of the year for different vegtable varities like asparagus, or melons and so on. Generally people are honest and put the cash in what are known as 'honesty boxes'. The produce is priced and yes there are still toerags that will spoil things but  honest folk far outweigh them.
Karen. xx

We have daffs sold this way too, boxes on the roadside sold at 25p a bunch and people are very honest & pay!

I was walking the dogs one night (about 10pm) and about 50 yards ahead on the pavement was a fox who barked at us in that screechy noise.

As I had five dogs with me I stopped shortened the leads up and braced myself waiting for it to go away.  It stood it's ground barked again and disappeared into the special school grounds.

The urban fox is very much alive and well again in Bristol