Interesting you mention Nestle,they have been boycotted for decades by many for aggressive marketing of their products in the third world.
Yeah,they are responsible for untold deaths in the third world largely through their milk powder business. This goes way back. #boycottnestle
You can dig your curly wurlys back out from the bin; Cadbury's have pulled out of Russia along with Yorkshire Tea and Uniqlo.
If anyone's seen the footage of some Russian column being ambushed. It doesn't speak very well of the Ukrainian propaganda ministry can fly two drones over your column with impunity and them anti tank misses can be used on your tanks and you then "run away" Seems to me the Russians are bogged down here. If I were nato I would basically authorise a 100% full scale logistics excerise and basically flood Ukraine with weapons and ammo, full etc on the pretext that no nato boots are doing anything. If the Russians are out stripped logistically then 200k soldiers off on one with piss poor logistics are going to be walking back to Russia fairly quick. I think putin was probably thinking exactly what his role model Hitler was thinking in 1941. I belive Hitler said all they had to do was kick in the door and the whole rotten edifice would fall in. This should have been over in 3/4days max if resistance was light/melted away. We are into 2 weeks with strong resistance that is well dug in and a real reticence being shown by Russia to actually come into close contact with the Ukrainian army. The shelling and thermal bombs etc are all signs of cowards trying to blow the place back to stone age. If Ukrainian has the heavy artilliary I think this could be over already in the opposite direction!
Anyone here ever had a feijoa? Before you ask, no, I haven't either but I'm growing a shrub so curious.
Not familiar with this,native to south America so would probably need a heated greenhouse in these parts. The fruit sounds nice though,related to the guava.
Fruit. Supposed to taste like something in between Pineapple, Guava and strawberry with a slight hint of mint.... But I've never had one so that's just going off what others say. Don't ship well so hasn't become a commercial fruit most places. Apparently huge in Australia and New Zealand though. Apparently New Zealand is one of the largest producers of them. If they grow in New Zealand's climate they might grow in parts of Britain too. The one I started last year wasn't phased a bit by the winter we had here... Stayed green all winter. (Winter here is very mild typically, but usually our lowest low is colder than the lowest low in most of England the difference is duration of cold... Here if it's below freezing at dawn it can still become shorts and t-shirt weather at noon, rarely lasts below freezing for more than a few hours no matter how cold it drops)
They are an outdoor crop. They're usually grown as a hedge plant in New Zealand by homeowners. They form a large privacy hedge that has the added benefit of producing edible flowers and edible fruit. I think I read they are native to the higher elevations in Uruguay, so they do get some cold exposure in their native range. They're very tolerant of just about any abuse... Heat, cold, drought, poor soil. They do need good drainage though.... Which I don't have (rock hard clay), so I need to do some serious amendment and plant them on a slope to help them drain better.
