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    Things of the past Maybe! Remember the Land Army girls and their Motto , Dig for Victory.? Cooking for girls at school was called Domestic Science. The first banana I ever saw was after the war finished..Cod liver oil and orange juice was Dietery additives to combat rickets and such.supermarkets were unheard of, and a weeks food. Ration for a family of 4 could be carried in one small shopping bag, and this included vegetables.. Even in those days you had the spivs who tried to take advantage of the situation.JS.

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    Some people go ga ga over parrots , but every year is a fight with them to who gets the grapes off my vine. , these are the green parrots, not the many coloured ones. JS.

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    Get plenty of galahs as well no problem with them. Think the green parrots are called fourty niners . Js

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    Quote Originally Posted by j.sabourn View Post
    My old man used to grow Show leeks and belong to a leek club at the local boozer. A very serious hobby in the NE of England.i still love Leek pudding a savoury dish, especially the way my mother made, it was nothing like stewed bagpipes and fried umbrellas . JS
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    Easy to grow potatoes, in a bucket or a bin, just some good soil on the bottom,plant the potatoes, as the shoots show keep covering with more soil until bin is full, have got half a sackful from it. With carrots use a lot of sand mixed in the soil.
    My brother-in-law in Wales grows show veges, last time we went home he had some, what my wife thought was small trees laid out on the lawn, they were leeks, he had a cabbage for showing that he had to wheel out in a barrow, and his broad been were that big you only needed one cut up per person. These days I grow veges in boxes, ground solid rock.
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    Des was on one dry ship where the second engineer used to make whiskey in a bucket with potato peelings and yeast and wait for it to forment. He must have put something else in but would not divulge, anyhow nearly blew your head off. Me and my mate made something similar when I was 14. I was sick as a dog one new year and my mother was really worried. My old man knew the cause and just said that will teach you to beware of what you drink, serves you right. My mate however did find a compatable formula So the following new year was o.k. J.S.
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    Victoria, Ghalahs, we have hundreds of them in Spring Street Canberra and no doubt in Tassie as well.

    John, sounds very much like the first few years after WW2.

    I have a 25 square meter veg patch and manage to grow most of what we need. Tomatoes did not perform this year but Red and Green cabbage did very well as did Silverbeet and Kale.
    With the Zuccini, if you leave a few on the vine they will grow to enormous size, I have a dozen or so like that.
    I harvest them and store them on their end, great in a stir fry during the winter months as they will keep for up to 4 months.

    Fruit trees did not do so well due to the odd unreliable weather we had, but the pear tree went gang busters and we are still eating some.
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    Was on the Harperly running down to Conakry for iron ore, My mate Joe decided WE were going to make some hooch, got a big pan from the galley when the cook was off, put in as I can remember, water, spuds, limes, a few other magical things that Joe found, let it brew for about a week, then we decided to try it out on the bosun, he tried a large mug full, flaked out, we threw the brew over he side, the cook was missing a large pan, and we were SH%^$g our selves, the bosun was out for quite a while which got us worried. I wish I could remember what he said when he came around, or better not.
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    Were you on one of the Bisco 15 year charters Des? JS

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    Two instances of home made grog on a UCL ship.

    A South African junior engineer making grog from Pineapple skins in a bucket in his wardrobe, bloody smell was enough even before you tasted it.

    Then the cook who made a brew using prunes and surgical spirits which kept in the warm baine marie in the galley.
    He always had a bit of an odd stare we noticed.
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