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hi,

first time poster here so bear with me...also new'ish to growing own veg.
anyway my question is to do with rocket salad. i had a good crop going enabling me to cut and come again but once i returned from the family hols the small creatures of the garden had a feast and the good neighbour failed to water! i was left with plants that have gone to seed. having cleared the garden of dead plants, i did save the seed pods and wondered if/how i can reuse the seeds i painstakingly picked off

hope someone can help

cheers
greenfoot

Well, i am sorry i haven't dealt with this sooner. The board doesn't seem to be telling me when a post goes on (and as it's been pretty rare up to now, I haven't been checking for a while, sorry   Sad
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Anyway. Composting weeds. Basically, compost anything that has no seeds or flowers on it. But don't compost the roots of perennial weeds like dandelion, bindweed, couch grass or thistles, because unless you are VERY good at building a compost heap, these will just grow through, and you will need to bin the lot.
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Another way to deal with it is to cover the whole garden in carpet for a year and then when you lift it, there shouldnt be much left alive.

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Well, thats is surprising. I guess everything depends how it has been grown and all that. I have beem growing asparagus pea and very happy with its taste. Yes its true that the pods age quite fast and they get stringy fairly quickly, but I was really happy with taste. Really what the name suggests between the asparagus and garden pea. And if you missed the dy of picking, just waith till the pods completely ripe and you can save the seeds:).  Hope you will try again. Try in a somewhat shady position, with lots of water!

One thing I will definitely never grow again is asparagus peas - the ones I grew were not very tasty, pretty unappetising in fact, and stringy, even though they were really tiny (which is apparently when you're supposed to pick them). I tried growing them a bit bigger but there was no difference apart from size. A waste of good land...

Soups are always a good bet when you have a glut of veg. Soups take quite a lot of veg and basically any veg with a potatoe to thicken and some onion and stock is fab. Soup freezes really well and you can keep enjoying the fruits of your labour all year.

well i use slug pellets its the only way i can keep them at bay ..sooooo..i suppose thats cheating a bit but i cant find another way ...apart form that everything that goes into the garden is totaly organic ..im just a beguiner mind you, and iv moved out into the middle of nowhere in the scottish borders..this year iv stuck in some spuds. beetroot, cabbage,scallions,leeks,peas,lettuce,parsely,and iv imhereted some strawberries  im lucky living 100 yds from a farm where i can get all my manure and hen pen and the like but iv herd you can over do it so heres hoping iv not..

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Hi. Thanks, I try to keep it that way.

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