Late last year, I attended a gardening workshop conducted by the Centre for Nature Literacy and Enterprise. One of the activities was to sow a potful of Chinese mustard greens with a faster growing partner. It meant that we had … Continue reading
Category Archives: Seed harvesting
We used to have a patch of cosmos flowers. I loved those flowers. Their cheery yellow colour could be seen from quite a distance when the plants were in bloom. What’s more, they were self-seeding plants – they had lots … Continue reading
Cucumber plants like to sprawl around, and in doing so, manage to hide the occasional fruit from us. The most recent escape artist succeeded in evading our palates by dangling over the side of the trough the plant is growing … Continue reading
Remember my poor long bean plant that was attacked by a caterpillar? Well, all those forming beans didn’t quite make it to adulthood (read: the cooking pot). We harvested a few early, but the smaller ones had quite a struggle … Continue reading