Property News · July 30, 2016

Me and my garden: ‘I grew my first apple tree when I was 12’


Hazera Forth on her urban Bedford garden, foraging and keeping chickensI have always tried to experiment. I grew my first apple tree from a granny smith when I was about 12; the apples were dry and quite small but they were great for pickling and we’d make weird fruit salsas with them.We lived in a suburban terraced house in Luton. My parents grew their own veg in the back garden – turnips, radishes, cucumbers, herbs, fenugreek, beans – because that’s what they did when they were growing up in Bangladesh. They used to sell bunches of coriander to the local Kashmiri stores. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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