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How To Grow Tea In The UK

On April 9, 2025 By Stefan Drew

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Commercial Tea Growing In Europe Is Very Niche, But It Exists. In Rare Locations The Conditions Suit. But Where In Europe? I was recently in the Azores and visited a tea plantation that was claimed the only one in Europe. I knew that was wrong.… More Leave a comment

Growing Cereals & Pseudocereals For The Kitchen

On February 19, 2025 By Stefan Drew

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Cereals Can Be Rewarding If You Have Space. Look At All The Foods That Can Be Produced. I have previously written about how to grow various ancient grains, cereals and psuedocereals including specific articles on buckwheat, quinoa etc. In this article I list some of the hundreds of global foods that are produced when we are growing cereals.… More Leave a comment

Domesticating Wild Plants, Creating New Crops: Apios Americana

On September 20, 2024 By Stefan Drew

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Mankind Has Been Creating New Crops By Domesticating Wild Plants For Millennia. After Wheat, Maize, Rice Etc He Is Now Turning His Attention To Apios Americana, The Potato Bean. Of course Apios is neither a potato nor a bean. But it does produce an edible tuber and is the latest in a succession of wild plants that have been domesticated.… More Leave a comment

Unusual Perennial Food Plants That Tolerate Partial Shade.

On May 14, 2024 By Stefan Drew

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Here’s A Guide To Unusual Perennial Food Plants That Can Thrive, Or Cope, With Partial Shade In British Gardens. Many Suit Food Forests. I’ve always been intrigued by shade tolerant plants. Simply because most vegetables prefer bright sunshine to shade. To share my list of the more Unusual Perennial Food Plants That tolerate Or Prefer Shade ..… More Leave a comment

Vegetables Not Found In UK Supermarkets

On April 18, 2024 By Stefan Drew

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We Can Grow Many Edible Vegetable Crops Not Often Found In UK Supermarkets In Our Gardens & Allotments. This Article Lists Nearly 60 0f Them. Plus I’ve Added a Few Fruit As Well! There are dozens of Vegetable Crops Not Found In Supermarkets that we can grow at home.… More Leave a comment

How To Grow Fenugreek In The UK

On September 12, 2023 By Stefan Drew

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Fenugreek Sounds Foreign, But Many of Us Eat It Without Realising It. Here’s More About This Spicy Herb & How To Grow Fenugreek In The UK. Fenugreek takes me back to my market gardening days and a summer evening when an Indian greengrocer visited me with a bag of seed he wanted me to grow.… More 2 responses

Elderflower: Plant Of Myths Or Essential Food Forest Plant?

On June 24, 2023 By Stefan Drew

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Elderflower & Elderberry Are A Gift In The Garden, Allotment Or Food Forest. One Productive Tree & Two Wonderful Food Products. The elder is a tree or shrub growing up to 10 metres in a height. Many species of elder exist globally but the one we find in the wild in the UK is Sambucus nigra, aka elder, dog tree, boortree, boontree or borewood.… More Leave a comment