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Today's haul from the vegetable plot. Nothing tastes like fresh fruit and vegetables. Potatoes, courgettes(zucchini), mangetout, peas, spinach leaf, gooseberries. 
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Fresh from the garden, lovely. Those gooseberries look very inviting. My mother used to make lovely gooseberry jam , nothing like it on home made bread. I also love shell peas raw.
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Those fruits that come from your own soil cannot be compared with what you buy in supermarkets. Yours taste like what it is and has nutritional value. I miss the taste of strawberries, "real" tomatoes........ the list is long! Enjoy what you reaped! Happiness is when what you think, what you say, what you do are in harmony - M. Gandhi
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There's nothing better than fresh from the garden!! 
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Beautiful  Is that a spinach variety top right? It looks like kangkung (Indonesian water spinach), delicous stir fried with dried shrimp paste. The vegetables look so healthy. Just looking at the photo is inspiring. Yesterday I made a no-dig garden approx. 3 feet x 10 feet and planted some brassicas and chinese bok choy. I'm thinking I might add the borage to the no-dig garden also. Your potatoes are making my mouth water - what variety are they and are they very crisp? I bought seed potatoes just over a week ago; once they develop shoots at the recommended length, I'll plant them out in a garden bed prepared last month. They're a relatively new variety with a great flavour and versatile.
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Beautiful Is that a spinach variety top right? It looks like kangkung (Indonesian water spinach), delicous stir fried with dried shrimp paste. The vegetables look so healthy. Just looking at the photo is inspiring. Yesterday I made a no-dig garden approx. 3 feet x 10 feet and planted some brassicas and chinese bok choy. I'm thinking I might add the borage to the no-dig garden also. Your potatoes are making my mouth water - what variety are they and are they very crisp? I bought seed potatoes just over a week ago; once they develop shoots at the recommended length, I'll plant them out in a garden bed prepared last month. They're a relatively new variety with a great flavour and versatile.The potatoes are either Wilja or Pentland Squire -- I planted two rows of each and I am not sure which way round I planted them. I think these are Pentland Squire as they had white flowers and Wilja have pale purple ones, but I may have that backwards. The seed packet for the spinach has disappeared but the leaves are typically arrowhead shapes and therefor probably 'Flamingo' variety. They are a cool weather variety and have bolted to flower with the warm weather we had a few weeks ago so I have taken them all out down to the basal leaves to try to encourage them to bulk up again -- but I might end up composting a lot of them. I will plant warm weather varieties next year; Catalina or Bloomsdale. Borage might be a bit big for your no dig garden but it is an excellent soil improver if dug back in. Apparently it also releases trace elements into the soil and helps Tomatoes, Cucumbers etc to grow, as well as attracting bees and other pollinators.
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Thanks for getting back to me - yes, it's easy enough to get side-tracked I don't think either of your potato varieties are available here - did check online without success. I was particularly interested in the potatoes in your photo because they look so delicious. English and perpetual spinach seem the most common here (oval leaves) although the NZ spinach (Tetragonia tetragonoides) has leaves a similar shape (arrowhead). I was recently given a couple of plants but as yet haven't tried them; was advised to eat the younger leaves/tips as the older leaves tend to be bitter. Thanks for advising against planting the borage in the no-dig garden (takes over? ) as well as its value as soil improver and pollinator attractor.
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