Grow Your Own, & Eat It!

Being able to grow your own food is an idea that has greatly appealed to me, since I’ve had my own garden, and enough time for it.

Living on a reasonable sized block of land, we have plenty of room but the problem is knowing the best things to do, and also, keeping it under control. I leave the bigger things to my husband to do, I know, sexist to expect him to do that ‘men’s work’, but he enjoys it, and I’m not interested in doing it, so go with the flow, I say …

Anyway, we both can water the plants we have that need it, and that is a task we more or less share, doing it as needed, and when we can. If one is busy doing other things, the other will water …

We both like looking at our garden, and also harvesting things when they may be ready for that. I harvest small things, more than my husband does — things like herbs, which I may use for herbal tea. He doesn’t drink that, so he doesn’t use herbs for that.

He may use some of our herbs for cooking though, as I do when appropriate as well. At the moment, we have these herbs:
thyme, rosemary, saltbush, and mint ready for use, and we also have coriander that is just beginning to grow, after seedlings were planted out a few weeks ago.

And the purslane is just beginning to come up again, as it does in summer every year after it was first planted out, some years back. I use that one for the Omega 3 Fatty Acids it has, that is one thing I don’t get in my otherwise healthy diet. I don’t eat fish…