Property News · July 29, 2018

The magic of growing potatoes never fades


Lunches of freshly dug spuds with mint and butter are the taste of summers pastThere’s something primal about potatoes; about growing a staple food. When we started gardening here 12 years ago a number of the plots mainly grew mono-crops, mostly potatoes and leeks, maybe a few tomatoes. To an extent we’ve helped change that.We brought in seeds bought and swapped and saved from throughout Europe, the Americas and India: amaranths, orache, shiso, painted mountain corn. We grew for beauty and flavour. We believed in variety. We sowed Danish dill, French chervil, Mexican coriander, Genovese basil, Neopolitan parsley, lost ‘Ildkongen’ tagetes from the Danish agricultural museum, flashback calendula bred in Oregon. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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