For Burns Night - Planning For The Future

[DTCwordfan]

Haggis is best grown from cuttings from the parent tuber than from seeds.

Make sure that you buy your haggis tuber from Scotland. Beware French, or Romanian imitations. KarenMac, Voddie, Minty, Nungate and Alba are all agents, there are a few more around too like Douglas.

Take a sharp knife - my aunt used her tongue like Mrs O would, but I wouldn't recommend that on hygiene grounds - and cut cubes of the haggis tuber 5cm square.

Take an old cup and fill it with my sheep dung. Water liberally.

After a week dust the bottom (the cutting's, not yours) with a rooting hormone powder. Buy the best 'Robbie Burns' compost and plant the cuttings in the compost (same AB agents).

Place them on a radiator so that they get bottom heat (tony does a good line).

After ten days, your haggis cuttings should sprout little white fingers, sort of like gness toes.

Transfer them to your sibton conservatory, if you haven't got a conservatory, a garage works fine - The Builder and tony have agencies for these.

At the end of the December in2013 harvest them, and put them in a dark cupboard for about 3 weeks.

On Burns day cut open your Haggis and fill with a lambs stomach, oats, deer liver and a chopped onion. The final secret ingredient is a leg (which AB female's is the question here, speculation please and why?) - and maybe a NoM or sunnydave recommended Scotch.

[murraymints]

have just seen this DT...very good !