Category: Food
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Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes have been alternately the bane of my existence and a wonderful windfall. I bought a sweet potato plant and, paying no heed to the saleswoman in the nursery who said, ‘they take over everything’, I put it in the ground. Two years later I had a garden covered in sweet potato, coming up […]
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First Homemade Turmeric
I am generally good at planning, planting and looking after things – but I am quite lousy at harvesting anything. I get a thrill of pleasure at how well the rocket is doing, and then completely ignore it until it’s gone to seed; I carefully tend my zucchini plants until they are magnificent, but don’t […]
The Suburban Food Forest 