Vegetables gone wild
I love all my trees and plants, but the ones I’m proudest of are the ones that grow wild. I don’t mean weeds like lantana and congress grass, of course. […]
Category Archives: Vegetable farming
Nine ways to be a terrible cook
I’m the world expert on this, so mark my words well. 1. Decide to use up all the vegetables that might spoil otherwise 2. Decide to make a huge quantity […]
Raised beds – four months on
‘That’s the reason they’re called lessons, ‘ the Gryphon remarked: ‘because they lessen from day to day.’ – Lewis Carroll In April this year, we started our system of raised […]
Mohenjodaro comes alive!
Now that our raised beds are ready, we have decided to plant one bed a month. Ideally, one should plant a bed a week, but the monthly schedule seemed more […]
Growing this week
This week, we are growing: More of these beautiful but barren clouds. Some veggies, including our first ever cabbages. Aren’t they sweet? Those yard-long beans are much favoured by the […]
A small step forward
Momentous things have been happening in the last one month. At least, it feels momentous to me because, while it is only the first small step forward, I dream of […]
What’s growing in this drought?
We have roses, hibiscus and marigolds blooming almost around the year. Not whole beds of them, but a shrub here and a bush there. Very individualistic, our plants are. And […]
Trying to figure it out
We haven’t grown much on our farm this year. Vegetables, yes. And we’ve planted perhaps 50 or 60 trees of various species. But crops, no. This is because I’m confused. […]
The Long View 