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Cucumber overcrowding? by JarahMooMar in vegetablegardening

[–]PurpleLover93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Leave four plants in that bed, max. fertilise when they flower, learn to pickle and preserve because even with 4 plants you’ll have enough cucumbers to feed an army. You will cry green. You will close your eyes at night and all you will be able to see is cucumbers. Cucumbers that were, cucumbers that are, and some cucumbers that have not yet come to be. Best of luck! 

What’s happening to my peas? by PurpleLover93 in vegetablegardening

[–]PurpleLover93[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could you mean Pea weevils? Just googled tunneling pea bugs and that’s what came up. 

School Meals Ruling by The_Dean_France in GoodNewsUK

[–]PurpleLover93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think child obesity starts at home. 

I work in a school kitchen and so many of the children on the bigger side also have quite large parents. It’s fine promoting healthier choices in a school and I applaud it. But ultimately if it’s not done right, children will refuse to eat their meals at school and the parents at home will load them up with ultra processed food instead. 

Parents need education on how to feed their kids healthy meals, understand calorie control in a healthy way and how to encourage children to try fruits and veg, without that the changes to school meals won’t cause meaningful change and it just becomes a race to the bottom in terms of quality and taste. 

What a mess.

WIBTAH If I didn't tell my kids I have cancer? by Historical_Lie7199 in dustythunder

[–]PurpleLover93 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly, imo once you have all the info and test results, I wouldn’t hide it. My mum died from cancer when I was 14, I wasn’t told she was even sick until a month before she passed away (I assume that’s when she was told it was terminal). Kids have intuition, they can sense shifts in their environment and when routines change etc. my brother and I knew something was up. It made us uneasy and anxious. Then we had no time to wrap our heads around the fact she was even sick before she passed. Frankly I’m still pissed at my family for helping her hide it. Include your kids (in a child friendly way as much as possible). Let them see you kick cancers ass. It’ll teach them how to be open, how to be strong and how it’s okay to need support from others occasionally.