Years ago, when our parents planted out their vegie patches, they turned over the soil, mixed some sheep manure through, planted their seeds and then came out every day to turn on the sprinklers to give them water. After a month or so, they would grab their basket and head out just before dinner to […]
Just because I’m a grown up doesn’t mean that I can’t play with my food! The other day, I became inspired and had some fun sculpting my own flock of sheep from cauliflower. It was quite easy really. The cauliflower forms the body and then I used toothpicks to attach the carrot legs and the […]
Since the beginning of time parents have been asking the age old question, ‘How do I get my kids to eat broccoli?’ It is a bit of a mystery as to what it is about broccoli that universally turns kids off. It’s actually a great looking vegetable, just like a tree, and it doesn’t taste […]
Yay! Garden Gnomes are back! Where have they been all these years? I imagine that, having been discarded by gardeners all over the country, they bundled all their worldly goods into pieces of spotted red fabric which they attached to sticks, and wandered off dejectedly to find another place to call home. But, we’ve missed […]
Why will kids turn up their noses at radishes but they’ll eat Warhead candies? Or they refuse to eat Brussels sprouts but they’ll drink Red Bull? Warheads are terrible things! They start off fine but then they get very, very sour. So sour that they send a shiver through your body. And yet, kids eat […]
I get a bit peeved when I watch some gardening shows or read gardening books that tell people that they should pot lots of herbs or vegies into one pot. I think this is a fast track to disappointment. Sure, the pot will look fantastic for the first few weeks with lots of leafy greens […]
