{"id":94945,"date":"2018-07-29T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-magic-of-growing-potatoes-never-fades\/"},"modified":"2018-07-29T15:04:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T08:04:47","slug":"the-magic-of-growing-potatoes-never-fades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-magic-of-growing-potatoes-never-fades\/","title":{"rendered":"The magic of growing potatoes never fades"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nLunches of freshly dug spuds with mint and butter are the taste of summers pastThere\u2019s 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\u2019ve 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 \u2018Ildkongen\u2019 tagetes from the Danish agricultural museum, flashback calendula bred in Oregon. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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