Gardening is a wonderful activity. First the plants give you fresh organic food and once the season is over they give you the next years seeds at no cost if you harvest them and store them well. Just ten little bean seeds, judiciously planted and cared for, can feed a family all through the long summer. The Benefits of Seed Saving: The home gardener selects … Continue reading Seed Saving
The weather is still so balmy in Sydney and we continue harvesting eggplants so I thought a nice pasta dish with a rich tomato sauce with the eggplants would make a delicious lunch. Rigatoni with Eggplant and Tomato Sauce Ingredients: 1 can of chopped tomatoes 1 Tblsp of tomato paste 1 small onion, finely chopped 1 clove of garlic, finely chopped 1 tblsp olive oil … Continue reading Rigatoni with Eggplant and Tomato Sauce
Leeks have been cultivated in Egypt for over 3000 years. They are known scientifically as Allium porrum, are related to garlic, onions, shallots and have a more delicate, mild and sweeter flavour than onions. Growth habits and planting needs Leeks prefer to be grown in full sun but will tolerate some shade. The soil should be well drained and enriched with well rotted compost and … Continue reading Growing Leeks
The weather is cooling a little in Sydney and slow baked lamb shanks and polenta is the perfect comfort food for a dinner or lunch. Cooking the lamb slowly will make it tender and falling off the bone and the rich sauce will be perfect with the polenta. Accompanied by a salad of mixed leaves and radicchio to cleanse the palate, this is a flavourful … Continue reading Slow Baked Lamb Shanks with Polenta
The following is a list of things you can plant in May in Sydney, a temperate zone: Beans – broad beans Brussels sprouts seedlings Cabbage seedlings Carrot Cauliflower seedlings Garlic Kale seedlings Kohlrabi Leeks seedlings Lettuce Mizuna Mustard greens Onion Pak Choy Parsley Peas Radish Rocket Shallots Silverbeet Snow Peas Spinach Strawberry Turnip Flower of the month – Dragon fruit flower (hylocereus) Continue reading What to plant in May
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