This is a blog post on how to prevent tomato blight. Tomato blight is when the tomato starts to go brown before it ripens. It is devastating for the gardener as all the time wasted trying to grow the tomatoes and try to get them to ripen. It is can happen quite easily. I started […]
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This blog post is on growing and harvesting fennel at home. Fennel is a vegetable/ herb has got anaseed taste to it. It is a used a lot in Italian and Mediterranean cooking as it grows well there. If it is grown well the bulb blooms and contains lots of fluid. It is possible to
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This is a blog post on growing and harvesting Wong Bok cabbage at home. Tips and tricks from sowing to harvesting them. Wong Bok is a lesser-known Chinese leaf than Pak choi. It is also known as Chinese cabbage. there are many varieties of them. The ones I grew don’t resemble much of what you
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This is a blog post on growing and harvesting Choy sum. Choy sum is a leafy green vegetable that shares similarities with Pak Choy. The stems are much tougher and it grows much taller than Pak Choy. Choy sum is a green leafy vegetable commonly used in Chinese dishes. Here in the UK, they are
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This blog post is on growing and harvesting Kailan. Kailan is also known as Chinese kale, Gai lan ( 芥兰) Kailaan. It is a family of brassica. The taste is similar to broccoli. For me personally, it is different from kale. For one the leaves are much smoother than kale. Also, it is less of
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This blog post is on growing and harvesting lemon balm. Lemon balm is very easy to grow at home. It is almost like growing a weed. But it is a useful weed to have in the garden. Mainly because of the properties that the lemon balm contains that are great in natural healing. The benefit
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This is a bog post on growing and harvesting Houttuynia cordata. It is also known as Vietnamese fish mint or Chameleon plant. It is winter hardy and it is edible although the taste may not be palatable to some. Some say it has a similar taste too of coriander except that it is a lot
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