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PaperclipPerfector  7mo ago (text post)   2680 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for December 13, 2024

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Just got done planting 300 row-feet of garlic, like 450 plants. Hopefully going to be a good crop next year, even though the last went in almost a month late.
The cloves are also much larger than the commercial seed I bought last year--basically planted the largest third of this year's crop. So that should give them a head start.

Probably overdo the garlic just because it's one of the few things you can do in the garden this time of year. But I use a ton of it and it's a remarkably good gift for the kind of people who like "organic garlic" as a health food.

The only kind of gardening I'd ever consider doing. It's a great spice and needed in small quantities. Wish I'd never learned of the whole seed oil controversy because crushed garlic in mayo is the best tasting thing I know of.

There are seed oils and seed oils. Some things like cold pressed sunflower oil have been in our diet for centuries - so are probably safe-ish enough.

"gluten intolerance" (that Americans don't seem to experience when eating bread in Europe)

Isn't it basically a fad, like women declaring they're bi etc? In Europe I know IRL like 2 gluten intolerant people out of say, 100. Real but rare disease. In US it's massively overrepresented

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