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 […]
