Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

We are months away from peppers, tomatoes and beans. Plenty of winter crops 
left but many of them are going into flower now. Not bad to eat either those 
flower tops. Spring perennials are up such as climbing spinach, sweet 
cicely, garlic cress, alexanders and a good few others. And then there are 
of course the edible "weeds" like stinging nettle and dandelion. Nothing 
against nettle soup or stir fried dandelion flowers.
Traditionally this period of the year was called the hungry gap. Not because 
there is nothing to eat but rather because a lot of nice edibles are not 
recognised as food by native Irish people.
John

> Ciao Italia! A Conversation with Mary Ann Esposito
> http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/11713/ciao-italia-conversation-mary-ann-esposito
>
> Had to run this one as my partner cooked Italian when she was big enough 
> to reach the kitchen counter, and her mother from Compania. Like Mary Ann 
> she's been telling me simple cooking with good ingredients is best and 
> easiest, and growing best tasting vegetables is the best way to start. 
> she's got me growing
> friariello peppers now with our strain of tomatoes & romano beans to come 
> soon. After all people had to eat before supermarkets & industrial farms, 
> and will again.
>
> paul
>
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