Founded in 2008. The Landscape Juice Network (LJN) is the largest and fastest growing professional landscaping and horticultural association in the United Kingdom.
LJN's professional business forum is unrivalled and open to anyone within within the UK landscape industry
LJN's Business Objectives Group (BOG) is for any Pro serious about building their business.
For the researching visitor there's a wealth of landscaping ideas, garden design ideas, lawn advice tips and advice about garden maintenance.
Replies
I've used Chard as a bedding plant in some gardens, espeically the "rainbow" mix varieties, and they make a good salad / though I prefer them to get huge for the impact so best in a stir fry.
Otherwise the bag fulls of wasted Apples are always a treat - its often a shock how many people dont want them!
I would regularly take (with the clients permission of course) apples, blackberries, raspberries, plums and anything else that looks reasonably edible. Its free food afterall. The most obscure thing ive ever eaten was probably a radish type vegetable, im not really sure what it was but it didn't taste nice.
At my Manor House job, they have a vegetable garden, just basics grown here; tomatoes, runner beans, Broad beans, leeks and onions this year, I usually just take them to the customer when ready, we don't eat a great deal of fresh veg at home. They do tell me to take what i like but i don't.
Next year i am going to grow Pumpkins there as they have the space for them, and they have two young girls who would like them, and hopefully they'll be enough to take some home for my girls at halloween.
You can say that again I've got most of Citrus plants inside and wow are we about to have a bumper crop. No buying limes, lemons...for the next 12 months at this rate.
Don't have any (of the garden type) clients but our fruit crop of damsons, pears, apples has been great again this year, had forgotten about the Quince thanks for the reminder.
We have a friend locally who's got a persimmon tree absolutely laden with fruit. They don't live here all the time and I noticed last year that quite a few disappeared...made into jam by one of the locals no doubt:)
This is the tree this year (this picture was taken last Sunday).
Richard Boyd said:
Wow what a harvest from that one tree, I'm not keen on eating after it has been dried out but that's bumper fresh crop. You have to pick Phil you know you have to. It must make a good tasting jelly?!@?
I popped over to wiki and apparently "In northern China, unripe persimmons are frozen outside during winter to speed up the ripening process."
That's true Rich, they're never harvested until they've been bletted. They'll hang on the tree most of the winter. It's all very festive with their bright orange skin set against the backdrop of a tree with no leaves.
very jealous of climates that grow persimmons!!
Phil Voice said:
Yesterday I found cèpe des pins and field mushrooms but they were a few days old so I won't eat them, I guess that does not really count then, but we have had a lot of parasol mushrooms fried in butter on toast recently. Our neighbour gave us some chard and fall apples too. I collected some walnuts from a tree next to a field full of cows, there are still more to collect another day.