Mustard and cress was probably the first thing I ever grew. No one called it ‘microgreens’ then, but the principle was the same: bit of wet kitchen roll, sprinkle seed on it, wait for them to germinate, water for two days, forget it’s on the school windowsill; throw away dried bit of kitchen roll. Now they’re…
Month: March 2016
Growing Licorice
“When I was a kid thirty five years ago all the children in Pontefract chewed on liquorice sticks.” Farmer Rob Copley’s decision to plant the UK’s first commercial crop of liquorice for over a century is driven more by nostalgia than hard business sense. He’ll need to wait another couple of years before he can…
The Event Gardener 