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Easy gardening

From a neighbour in her eighties, I learnt something powerful about gardening. It’s all about working with Nature and not against her.

For example, it was raining fairly regularly over a number of weeks, and I found my neighbour outside each day, weeding. When I asked her why she was out in the rain, she said it was easier to pull weeds once the rain had softened the ground.

So, the secret to easy gardening, is to employ Mother Nature to do the hard work for us, and allow her to help. She is, afterall, a wise and old helpful lady.

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Budgets and food.

Recently, while hunting down recipes that were nutritious and budget friendly, I searched many different websites.

Much advice was given on growing one’s own herbs and vegetables, mixed in with different recipes.

Two comments I’d like to make to those of us who believe that food can be healthy and affordable are these…

When growing your own, an easy way to choose what to plant, is choose anything that works well in salad. Salad vegetables are always better fresh.

Then my second comment is to grow what goes well with eggs. This means, with the humble and yes, cheap egg in the fridge, a quick, easy and healthy meal can be whipped up with anything growing in the garden.

A side salad, also from that same garden, would make this little meal complete.