Rosemary

Is rosemary easy to grow? So they say. Mmm. I’ve ended up with more dried arrangements than I care to remember.

Is rosemary easy to grow? So they say. Mmm. I’ve ended up with more dried arrangements than I care to remember.

Though it seems just like yesterday, it was in fact 40 years ago that I spent a week walking the hills of Crete.
A striking memory is the aromatic scents that rose all around us as we crushed wild thyme and oregano underfoot. The oregano was ‘rigani’, origanum vulgare (hirtum). Bit of a gob-full, I suppose, but the last name (hirtum) is pretty important.

Sort out the riddle: witloof, endive, chicory …

Letting a dill plant go to flower reaps rewards.

Sweet and colourful, kumara offers more than just being an accompaniment to a roast.

It could be that pomegranates were the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. They’re nothing much to look at on the outside but the clusters of ruby-red jewel-like seeds inside could have seduced even the staunchest of hearts.

We all know and recognise broccoli, but what about broccolini and broccoli rabe?
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