We had two beds of sweet potatoes this year, with four different varieties - two white and two orange. This is one of those things I grow because I love them and they are hard to find here (and expensive when I do), which puts them in the same category as things like Chinese veg …
Month: November 2013
Market day – Thursday
A friend of mine recently commented that although I am living in both the city and the garden, our city life is underrepresented in these posts. Of course, I began writing here when I was only living in the garden, and it has remained my focus but I see now that it is quite true …
Attack of the nosy neighbor
Every Sunday, the boys and I leave Ali in the garden and go back to our flat in town so Baki can go to school. But I try to make it back out to the garden twice a week so I can get some things done. It is about 8 km from the main road …
Kaya’s foot photos
I plugged the iPod into the computer this morning and found 420 photos that Kaya had taken. Now, these 420 photos were of about 9 different things -- Kaya is definitely what you would call a trigger-happy photographer. What I thought was kind of funny was that most of the photos were of his feet. …
vegetable crib notes
I have high hopes that my Blog30 project will help me to finally write all of those posts that I have had rattling around in my head. I don't know if anyone knows what I mean by this, but I always have things in mind that I mean to write about, and I keep these …
Garden Correspondent 