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EVERY WEEK, TheJournal.ie offers a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
€55 million - The estimated cost of the next census, which will take place on Sunday 24 April 2016.
4.25 million - The number of bananas that come into Ireland every week.
10,477 - The number of people who have signed a petition calling for Cork Airport to be renamed Cork Rory Gallagher Airport.
98 - The number of years since the 1916 Rising. The government has announced that the Moore Street site where the leaders surrendered is to made into a commemorative centre.
75 - The percentage of deaths in Ireland which are caused by either heart or respiratory diseases, or cancer.
43 - The number of minutes it took for US death row inmate Clayton Lockett to die of a heart attack after he was administered a new, untested drug during a botched execution in Oklahoma.
25 - The number of years that Jeremy Paxman has been presenting Newsnight. He announced this week that he is stepping down.
6 - Where Dublin ranks on a list of best value party cities, according to a list published this week, behind Bangkok, Madrid, Las Vegas, Buenos Aires and Berlin.
4 - The number of times that Denmark’s Noma has been named as the world’s best restaurant. It reclaimed the title this week.
3 - The number of Irish universities which made it into the list of the top 100 universities in the world under 50 years of age.
0.1 - The percentage drop in the unemployment rate in April, making it the 22nd month in a row where the figures have fallen.
Picture shows globe artichokes, not Jerusalem artichokes!
Courgettes are a great crop and easy to grow in open ground. Just two plants each year keep us going for months on end from June onwards, or plant them in a poly tunnel for an earlier crop.
Those aren’t Jerusalem artichokes in the recipe picture!
I saw strawberries from Ethiopia last week in SuperValu.. Crazy..
My local shop had highland strawberries with a giraffe on them. Had to look closely before I saw they were eithiopean. I was amazed.
Courgette shortage can lead to a lot of frustration
Grow your own pah won’t help for veg this afternoon will it. Plenty of cheap courgettes in the local aldi today and lettuce. Anyway my courgettes always manage to rot before they get to any size.
Might help if you pictured Jerusalem artichokes rather than globe artichokes, journal!
Would rather starve
#firstworldproblems
This stuff will only grow if you have a polytunnel or greenhouse. The “summer” in this country is not long enough or hot enough to grow these vegetables. You may just about get away with it if you live in the far south of the country, but nowhere else. The plants will never mature enough to produce a crop and will rot in the ground.
Not true. I’ve done it successfully in North Leitrim with no polytunnel or greenhouse. Very tasty too.
I’ve seen several articles ballyragging people over their obsession with out of season veg and I think it needs to stop. I wouldn’t be able to last the entire winter and spring just eating turnip and kale. So what if people want fresh tomatoes and salad? It’s not our fault we don’t have the climate to grow everything all year. Sitting up on your high horse pontificating is only going to put people off growing their own, how about more encouragement and less judging. Also should this not be marked as an advertisement if your promoting the seeds you sell on your website?
This is what a Jerusalem artichoke looks like with a recipe to match!
http://kerrouet.blogspot.fr/2017/02/jerusalem-artichoke-soup.html?m=1
Spurred a sale of seeds??? I’m a gardener and buy my seeds in February anyway! Ridiculous to claim other gardeners are doing the same because of the current shortage. What next? Umbrella sales go up coming into the winter?!
Time to start off luffas now, can use them the same way as Courgette when young?
I think the indigo rose tomato is a good one for cooking with, Gardem peace is a nice one but prone to blights but st pierre and Eva Purple Ball Heirloom Tomato, saying nothing about Bloody Butcher? But Cristal’ F1 Hybrid, Ferline’ F1 Hybrid and Orkado’ F1 Hybrid are good as well.
Garden Peach not Gardem peace…
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