[Beetroot queen]

So i have been pulling out these tiny blackcurrant seedlings from under the bushes. And hubby asks me why i am bothering to pot them on. 

My answer is because "they are freebies"  so he replied " yes but we already have more than enough"

"But they are free" i kept repeating, So i need some brilliant reason why i am growing them on rather than because they are free. seems criminal to throw them on the compost pile. 

[Yorkie]

Freecycle, donate to your local allotment shop or friends?

You're a generous soul, after all?

[GrannieAnnie]

You don't even have to pot them up BQ.  They grow anyway! But I did pot up about 24 a couple of years ago, then found new homes for them.

Last year I gave my SIL 5 and they are all doing well!

Like you, I hate losing out on 'freebies'!   

[Beetroot queen]

Freecycle, donate to your local allotment shop or friends?

You're a generous soul, after all?

Hehe i am not sure he'll believe that but its another reason as well as "they are free" 
Freecycle here is having a nightmare for non collections at the moment. Mind you these plants wont be big enough till next spring so freecycle have time to sort these people out. 

[Beetroot queen]

You don't even have to pot them up BQ.  They grow anyway! But I did pot up about 24 a couple of years ago, then found new homes for them.

Last year I gave my SIL 5 and they are all doing well!

Like you, I hate losing out on 'freebies'!   

Seen as i paid for my original bushes every extra one is a bonus in my eyes. I am still tempted to add a few to the local neighbourhood verges. 

[Growing4mykids]

 I am still tempted to add a few to the local neighbourhood verges. 
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A bit of guerilla gardening  I still don't understand properly why public spaces don't have more fruit tree's/bushes(as in local, council run parks) seems like the councils are happy for the schools to preach healthy living to our kids, and have many healthy living publicity drives, so why can't they back it up and make it easier for our kids, out of school, to learn as they play/find   

[Beetroot queen]

I agree complety, its lovely to discover stuff free in the hedgerows.

I may just be a bit naughty with my transplanting, i wont make it too neat and then i can blame the birds. 

[Growing4mykids]

Seems like common sense to me to have it out there for people to stumble across and enjoy, might have to go undercover myself with a little planting here and there, have a couple of rasberry canes that need a wild home   

[Beetroot queen]

Can you imagine the local news story.

Here in somerset 200 mysterious blackcurrant bushes have appeared alongside a busy dual carriageway. 
Motorists have been slowing to check out the bumper harvests of free fruit.

Someone would moan it was a crash site 

We have a beautiful apple on a busy dual carriageway and its always dripping in real snow white apples but no-one can get near it, i comment every single morning, the kids roll their eyes 

[Beetroot queen]

My four volunteer gooseberry bushes have also started putting on some green growth. Lol what can i say i just cant resist.

If i knew they were this easy to grow i would never have paid for my original bushes 

[Growing4mykids]

We have an old railway track 2 minute's from us, that is now a lovely walkway that leads to our local waterfall, i'm sure it would benefit from some rasp's  (and no-one SHOULD be driving down it so i could'nt be blamed for that!!) 

[Beetroot queen]

We have an old railway track 2 minute's from us, that is now a lovely walkway that leads to our local waterfall, i'm sure it would benefit from some rasp's  (and no-one SHOULD be driving down it so i could'nt be blamed for that!!) 

But what about the train driver as he stops watching while he leans out the window to pick the super raspberries groqing at the side. Lol that is a joke before anyone says its not funny 

[Growing4mykids]

Guess what....... not funny that   


Apologies BQ, couldn't resist 

[Beetroot queen]

Guess what....... not funny that   

Oh yes it was 

[digger1]

oh no it wasn't