The 2020 growing season is slowly but steadily coming to an end with the first hard frosts only around the corner. In the garden every season brings it’s bounties and winter is certainly no exception. Every year we look forward to harvesting many different tuberous vegetables. In this video i will be giving you a […]
Chufa is a hardy perennial producing a generous deposit of delicious starchy tubers commonly known as tiger nuts or earth almonds. These can be eaten fresh or dried for long term storage. Tiger nuts were the primary source of food for our Paleolithic ancestors 2 million years ago and they are among the oldest cultivated […]
Our next LIVE stream is going to be tomorrow on Wednesday the 7th of October at 7pm GMT. The most popular topic chosen by our audience this time is 10 Medicinal Plants – Traditional Household Medicine. We will talk briefly about how to grow each of them in your garden, when to harvest and how […]
We made a quick Video Tour of our multi function garden & nursery with a sneak peak at our new green house. Overall these gardens have multiple functions such growing food & medicine, growing specimen plants for propagation materials and starting new plants both from seed & cuttings. Enjoy! Talk to you in the comments […]
Chinese artichokes are a reliable cropper producing lots of small tasty tubers. It’s perennial and grows similar to mint so it’s best grown in containers or in a permanent location. Tubers can be eaten raw or cooked. We like to add them to salads or just snack away at them while we’re in the garden. […]