Anita has the plot next to mine and I have learned a lot from her French down-to-earth approach to growing, harvesting and eating vegetables. It's straight from plot to table: vegetables go directly into the soup pot or salad bowl when she goes home for lunch after a morning in the garden. I've learned lots from Anita, for instance to appreciate the humble radish: grow the milder French breakfast variety, eat the root sliced lengthways with a dip and use the tops in a soup or stir fry-discarding the tops is a sin! In France turnips (navets) are picked small and fried in butter or olive oil or baked. They are delicious eaten this way and the turnip tops are not wasted; eat them as you would spinach.
Anita has a different approach to recycling her spent plants: instead of carrying them off to the compost heap, she digs a trench and buries them mixed with with horse manure to feed the earthworms in her plot. She plants the next season's crops straight on top. Anita is full of energy and zest for living- a truly generous spirit and all-round great companion in the community garden. The picture shows Anita watering my garden, which she often does.
Anita has a different approach to recycling her spent plants: instead of carrying them off to the compost heap, she digs a trench and buries them mixed with with horse manure to feed the earthworms in her plot. She plants the next season's crops straight on top. Anita is full of energy and zest for living- a truly generous spirit and all-round great companion in the community garden. The picture shows Anita watering my garden, which she often does.
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