December 15th, 2006
This morning I pulled the first wonderful sweet carrots of the season. In celebration, and knowing that lots of people have trouble getting carrots underway, I thought I would share my method. This has worked for me in several different gardens, ranging from sandy acid soil to sandy alkaline and now to my present acid […]
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December 7th, 2006
One of my favourite cookery writers, Geoff Slattery, once said that if the former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam had been a vegetable, he would have been an eggplant, but that he would have called himself an aubergine.
I know what he meant. The kingly purple, the elegant curves of the leaves, their fussy, arrogant ways…but […]
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