can you just open the bag once its fully colonised then harvest as you please as it fruits?

its passata season

Also you can cook with the all best quality ingredients. It is very unlikely that even at decent restaurants every single ingredient used is of the highest quality.

I mostly have them with other berries and yoghurt, honeycomb, bee pollen. They last surprisingly long in the fridge so between that and giving them out to family I get through them no problem.

Here we go, no time like the present! A massive blueberry harvest from just three bushes. This was the second big harvest and there could have been a third smaller one but I decided not to re-cover, so the blackbirds will have the rest. And the biggest watermelon I've ever grown, I hope it ripens!

Ah, thank you very much ❤️ Now I'll have to get round to posting something from the garden or woods 🙂

It's a similar line of thinking when you use SSAS to purchase commercial property that you then lease out to the sponsoring employer. This arrangement is fine so long as the rent paid is at the market rate. If it's below market rates then you would not be acting in the best interests of the pension scheme.

I'm not sure but I suspect if it were possible then the renumeration would have to reflect market rates i.e. HMRC would not look favourably on you paying yourself a large salary that was unjustified. As a trustee you must act in the best interest of the scheme, its assets and members.

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is there any existing analysis looking at the 4-year cycle model against gold rather than the dollar?

red meat - if you choose the fatty cuts its even top notcher

Yes, I drape them with i mesh and use pegs to close the gaps. I find that the bushes can handle that. With bird netting the berries get tangled so you'd need a cage around it. I doubt there would be any to harvest if not covered. Blackbirds eat them green. Literally the day after covering them, having not seen a single berry turning prior, there was plenty of purple to be seen.