Bumper spaghetti crop predicted this year near Astorga

[David]

Hi all, as veteran pilgrims will probably know EU funding was provided to Spain to import and plant 1,000 hectares of spaghetti trees (Spaghetti Aprilis fatuus Arbor) the year before the lockdown. They grew well but the drought last year meant no crop.
However, with this mild winter and wet spring the growers are predicting a bumper crop later in the year.

You will walk through the main plantation just after leaving Astorga on the rising ground up to Rabanal. (Please don't pick any).

This video is a little old now as harvest documentaries are rare for some reason but shows the spaghetti harvest next to the Italian border in Switzerland. As an aside, with global warming and our (English) climate warming up, we are also hoping to be able to plant productive plantations - English pasta! Wonderful.

 

[Vacajoe]

I hear you can tap the sap like with maple trees, but instead of syrup you get a very nice vino tinto which pairs nicely with the fresh-picked spaghetti.

 

[J Willhaus]

edited: Who would have believed it!

 

[David]

I know - really surprised me too!!

 

[K_Lynn]

Keep an eye out for baseganomushtomeppers as they ripen! Delicious! Dice a couple and simmer them for a beautiful sauce.

 

[natefaith]

It is my favorite thing to grow! The trees just take off as long as they have the right conditions.

 

[dick bird]

We tried growing some in our back yard but the entire crop was eaten by flying penguins.

 

[David]

We tried growing some in our back yard but the entire crop was eaten by flying penguins.

I know! Last winter there were odd wind patterns and we had flocks of them blown way north and arriving and devouring our Croissant bushes!

 

[Tincatinker]

Back when Cliff Michelmore had more authority than St David (Attenborough) reporting on the spaghetti crop was as important and as crucial as the colour of the Prince of Whales socks. In these more enlightened times the essential question is “tinned tuna in a pasta puttanesca. Que?”

 

[David]

Back when Cliff Michelmore had more authority than St David (Attenborough) reporting on the spaghetti crop was as important and as crucial as the colour of the Prince of Whales socks. In these more enlightened times the essential question is “tinned tuna in a pasta puttanesca. Que?”

Richard Dimbleby???

 

[Vacajoe]

Prince of Whales socks

Unbelievable! Today I learned that not only do whales have royalty, but they somehow wear socks!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

The harvest is usually in very early April.

 

[dick bird]

Unbelievable! Today I learned that not only do whales have royalty, but they somehow wear socks!

And they are free!

 

[Lindsay53]

I hear you can tap the sap like with maple trees, but instead of syrup you get a very nice vino tinto which pairs nicely with the fresh-picked spaghetti.

This is true, it can be sampled at the Pilgrims Wine Fountain on the big green bridge.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

We tried growing some in our back yard but the entire crop was eaten by flying penguins.

Flying pigs eat twice as much.

 

[Tincatinker]

Richard Dimbleby???

More than likely

 

[danielle aird]

Hi all, as veteran pilgrims will probably know EU funding was provided to Spain to import and plant 1,000 hectares of spaghetti trees (Spaghetti Aprilis fatuus Arbor) the year before the lockdown. They grew well but the drought last year meant no crop.
However, with this mild winter and wet spring the growers are predicting a bumper crop later in the year.

You will walk through the main plantation just after leaving Astorga on the rising ground up to Rabanal. (Please don't pick any).

This video is a little old now as harvest documentaries are rare for some reason but shows the spaghetti harvest next to the Italian border in Switzerland. As an aside, with global warming and our (English) climate warming up, we are also hoping to be able to plant productive plantations - English pasta! Wonderful.

the nice thing about that pasta is it's gluten-free so I can have some too.

 

[Eddiebee]

Hi all, as veteran pilgrims will probably know EU funding was provided to Spain to import and plant 1,000 hectares of spaghetti trees (Spaghetti Aprilis fatuus Arbor) the year before the lockdown. They grew well but the drought last year meant no crop.
However, with this mild winter and wet spring the growers are predicting a bumper crop later in the year.

You will walk through the main plantation just after leaving Astorga on the rising ground up to Rabanal. (Please don't pick any).

This video is a little old now as harvest documentaries are rare for some reason but shows the spaghetti harvest next to the Italian border in Switzerland. As an aside, with global warming and our (English) climate warming up, we are also hoping to be able to plant productive plantations - English pasta! Wonderful.

The beautiful yellow flowers when the tree is in bloom makes me wonder why we don't eat saffron spaghetti!

 

[Philtration]

We've never been able to grow spaghetti where I live. But my neighbor has had some success with a fettucine bush.

 

[t2andreo]

Hi all, as veteran pilgrims will probably know EU funding was provided to Spain to import and plant 1,000 hectares of spaghetti trees (Spaghetti Aprilis fatuus Arbor) the year before the lockdown. They grew well but the drought last year meant no crop.
However, with this mild winter and wet spring the growers are predicting a bumper crop later in the year.

You will walk through the main plantation just after leaving Astorga on the rising ground up to Rabanal. (Please don't pick any).

This video is a little old now as harvest documentaries are rare for some reason but shows the spaghetti harvest next to the Italian border in Switzerland. As an aside, with global warming and our (English) climate warming up, we are also hoping to be able to plant productive plantations - English pasta! Wonderful.

I suppose SOMEONE had to be the first one off-the-mark with an April Fools prank.

God on you! WHo would have thunk it - harvesting spaghetti?

 

[musicman]

HAPPY APRIL FOOLS’ DAY.

 

[MichelleElynHogan]

I was lucky to get a Spring Harvest off my Spaghetti / Cherry / Lemon / Watermelon / Orange / Blueberry / Eggplant Trees. Here is a fresh plate, right off the tree...

The tough part is separating the different colours.

 

[KFH]

We've never been able to grow spaghetti where I live. But my neighbor has had some success with a fettucine bush.

I'm happy for you because the fettucine bush is beautiful. We tried them here but the neighbor's gummy bears kept coming through a hole in the fence and eating them.

 

[Vacajoe]

I suppose SOMEONE had to be the first one off-the-mark with an April Fools prank.

Okay okay, guilty as charged. Everyone knows you can’t get red wine from a spaghetti tree! Obviously you can only tap it for vino blanco

 

[natefaith]

This thread gives me the same feeling I have when watching the Eurovision finals.

 

[alexwalker]

My spaghetti crop this year has been cancelled due to climate change in the Arctic where I live... Photo taken today...

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I like the spaghetti westerns with Clint Eastwood or is that going off topic?

 

[Anthony Rocco]

Hi all, as veteran pilgrims will probably know EU funding was provided to Spain to import and plant 1,000 hectares of spaghetti trees (Spaghetti Aprilis fatuus Arbor) the year before the lockdown. They grew well but the drought last year meant no crop.
However, with this mild winter and wet spring the growers are predicting a bumper crop later in the year.

You will walk through the main plantation just after leaving Astorga on the rising ground up to Rabanal. (Please don't pick any).

This video is a little old now as harvest documentaries are rare for some reason but shows the spaghetti harvest next to the Italian border in Switzerland. As an aside, with global warming and our (English) climate warming up, we are also hoping to be able to plant productive plantations - English pasta! Wonderful.

In other news, the good folks at the Santiago compostella office have approved counting the 22km aross the English channel that peregrinos swim toward a compostela. But you cannot do so with fins and you must have a pack with a shell on your back. Tough, but doable

 

[Kirkie]

Well done, David and all contributors. (Are you really David, or are you an AI impersonation? Just wondering).

 

[Anthony Rocco]

Hi all, as veteran pilgrims will probably know EU funding was provided to Spain to import and plant 1,000 hectares of spaghetti trees (Spaghetti Aprilis fatuus Arbor) the year before the lockdown. They grew well but the drought last year meant no crop.
However, with this mild winter and wet spring the growers are predicting a bumper crop later in the year.

You will walk through the main plantation just after leaving Astorga on the rising ground up to Rabanal. (Please don't pick any).

This video is a little old now as harvest documentaries are rare for some reason but shows the spaghetti harvest next to the Italian border in Switzerland. As an aside, with global warming and our (English) climate warming up, we are also hoping to be able to plant productive plantations - English pasta! Wonderful.

Here is my favorite news report today:

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[pelerine]

I'm happy for you because the fettucine bush is beautiful. We tried them here but the neighbor's gummy bears kept coming through a hole in the fence and eating them.

I don’t believe you! Gummy bears don’t eat fettucine! Makes them sick!

 

[@Ditts]

In the Cotswolds spaghetti won't grow, and the Tories wouldn't allow it anyway. We can have vermicelli but it has to be organic, and only grown by the King at his Highgrove residence, hand strung by his own personal golden spiders. Costs a fortune at his shop in Tetbury high street.

 

[pelerine]

In the Cotswolds spaghetti won't grow, and the Tories wouldn't allow it anyway. We can have vermicelli but it has to be organic, and only grown by the King at his Highgrove residence, hand strung by his own personal golden spiders. Costs a fortune at his shop in Tetbury high street.

Have you tried the fettucine bushes mentioned by forgotten who!?
We are coming up against the April 1 time limits on the European continent….

 

[@Ditts]

Have you tried the fettucine bushes mentioned by forgotten who!?
We are coming up against the April 1 time limits on the European continent….

Haven't tried them personally but have a friend who has, with dismal results

 

[dougfitz]

We are coming up against the April 1 time limits on the European continent….

... and well after midday almost everywhere. I suppose if you are in Hawaii or Tahiti you might have some time left before you are the April Fool for attempting the joke after midday.

 

[DeansFamily]

Truly amazing Dave! We were seeing them everywhere as we walked through there yesterday as the forming strands were waving in the cold wind. As Aussies, we have heard all about spaghetti trees.... A very "special" plant indeed!

 

[C clearly]

Well, folks - see you next year.