The Edible Garden
I was out last evening but on my return OH indicated that he had seen a very good new programme on BBC called the Edible Garden. He indicated that the presenter had grown pea shoots for use in salads without buying special seed and using dried peas from the pantry and that she had also packed a lot of vegetables into the garden as well as flowers and had quite a return for the size of garden she had. She also had acquired a couple of point of lay chickens and within a couple of weeks was getting a couple of eggs a day and every other day a double yolker from one of the chickens. As OH spoke so highly of the programme I decided to view it on catch up and I am glad I did. The programme is presented by Alys Fowler, one of the Gardeners World presenters, this being her first solo programme. There are six episodes. Her aim is to produce as much as she can out of her small terraced back garden and be on the road to self-sufficiency without forever being reliant on what the supermarket can ...