[gobs]

Apparently, you can eat too much of anything. :roll:

A guy doing the royal lectures whatever on food said that one biochemist he knew died of drinking too much carrot juice. :shock:  :shock:

 :roll:  :roll: varied diet varied diet varied diet :oops:  :oops:  :oops:

[flowerlady]

Do you not find that too much garlic confines you to the smallest room in the house !!

... you don't get colds though !! :roll:    

[gobs]

Oh I'm mostly confined to the smallest room, nothing to do with garlic, though.  

[Aunt Sally]

Had my first meal of sprouts today - wonderful  

[WG.]

Apparently, you can eat too much of anything. :roll:

A guy doing the royal lectures whatever on food said that one biochemist he knew died of drinking too much carrot juice. :shock:  :shock:

 :roll:  :roll: varied diet varied diet varied diet :oops:  :oops:  :oops:

I think the problem is more what you don't eat when you are taking vast amounts of one thing.  I agree ... varied diet.

is it possible to use too much garlic?  

No !!!!!!!!  

[Simon123]

I was never the world's greatest sprouts fan until I tasted them with pan-fried chestnuts.  A bit fiddly peeling them but well worth it.

[gobs]

Definitely very nice strir fried with nuts of almost any description.

[sweet nasturtium]

Thought mine was going to be dire this year, bottom ones had blown but stripped them gave them a little feed and they are starting to look promising for Christmas.  

Aidy - do you mean stripped the leaves or sprouts?  I'm wishfully thinking that sprouts re-grow on the stalk?  Do you get more if you take them all off?  Also I think mine may be blown but what does that actually mean? Sorry to ask you so many dumb questions.

[sweet nasturtium]

Thought mine was going to be dire this year, bottom ones had blown but stripped them gave them a little feed and they are starting to look promising for Christmas.    Gale force winds forcast for this area then.  

Now I've worked out what "blown" means, (the sprouts themselves gone a bit leafy) - I realise some of mine are too.  I'm going to strip mine too.

One other thing - some of my stalks bent early in the season so they're a kind of L shape.  The plants are alive, but any ideas why, so that I can prevent it happening again next year?  I'm thinking it may be because I didn't firm them in early enough, being an absolute beginner.

[muntjac]

you answered the bendy bit urself nasty .and  dont strip al the sprouts off just sue the blown ones for now .if you leave some half way up they will continure to come ,just crop a few at a time from each plant ,unless ya feeding a whole tribe then you should have planted more ,,     sprouts with a onion chopped fine  n steamed along side them is yum

[sweet nasturtium]

Munty you don't know how glad I am that you didn't diagnose club root.  I was dreading that diagnosis.  I have now realised that not all plants like light and fluffy soil.  Live and learn.

Steaming with onions - good idea, I'll try that soon.  But not the blown ones I guess.
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