little gems

Thought i would try something different this year!
So..After a couple of hours looking at heirloom sites i ordered these from the Real Seed Catalogue..
Oca - Oxalis Tuberosum
Scarlet with white eyes…
“One of the lost crops of the incas”
The growing instructions that came with them seem pretty clear. You grow them like you would potatoes, planting [...]

Woohoo…. My shiny new computer came home with me last Saturday and I’m still stunned from the fact that my other computer had a stroke and gave up on me after only two years. When i mentioned this to the shop assistant, his reply was,”Well that’s technology. ” Yeah, bloody expensive technology- That-ll teach me to fish for sympathy (didn’t [...]

EDIBLE WILD PLANTS - GROWING YOUR OWN

The guide contains references on more than 150 edible wild plants. However, finding
these in the wild is not always possible so you might like to try growing your own
If you run a chemical-free, eco-friendly, garden this also means that you can guarantee your crop to be uncontaminated by pesticides [...]

Things will be a bit quite around here over the next few days as my computer has died on me! Its been at the doctors this past week and basically iv been told its  terminal (its only 2 years old Grrr) and would be cheaper to buy a new one. So…iv resorted to hijacking a friends [...]

A Brief History of Vegetables
JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE
Not so commonly used these days, the tuberous roots of the hardy Jerusalem Artichoke have been used for centuries and were well-known to Amer-Indians by the time Westerners explored the New World. “Neither came it from Jerusalem or out of Asia but out of America,” Gerard said in 1596, while [...]