{"id":21408,"date":"2016-07-30T16:59:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T09:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/me-and-my-garden-i-grew-my-first-apple-tree-when-i-was-12\/"},"modified":"2016-07-30T17:11:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T10:11:32","slug":"me-and-my-garden-i-grew-my-first-apple-tree-when-i-was-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/me-and-my-garden-i-grew-my-first-apple-tree-when-i-was-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Me and my garden: \u2018I grew my first apple tree when I was 12\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHazera 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\u2019d 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 \u2013 turnips, radishes, cucumbers, herbs, fenugreek, beans \u2013 because that\u2019s what they did when they were growing up in Bangladesh. They used to sell bunches of coriander to the local Kashmiri stores. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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