UK: Grow a rainbow of colourful fruit and veg for Pride
Gardening authors Two Dirty Boys serve up a Pride platter.
By Hannah Stephenson
Independent
May 23, 2023
Excerpt:
Growing a rainbow of fruits and vegetables in your garden or allotment is a great way to add a burst of colour to celebrate Pride month.
To mark the occasion, Robin Daly and Paul Anderton, friends with an allotment in East London – known on social media as Two Dirty Boys (@twodirtyboys) – and authors of gardening books Propagate and Regrown, reckon it’s possible to make your fruit and veg platters a rainbow of colour, using plants for their dazzling shades as well as their flavour.
They say: “The natural compounds that colour food are some of the most important nutrients in keeping us healthy, ensuring that your harvest is both delicious and nutritious.
“With a little forward planning and some clever choices, you can create a vibrant patch that is as beautiful as it is bountiful.”
Here, they serve up some suggestions to achieving a Pride rainbow of colour when you grow your own.
Read the complete article here.
Regrown: How to Grow Fruit, Herbs and Vegetables from Kitchen Scraps.
By Two Dirty Boys: Paul Anderton , Robin Daly
Hardie Grant (UK); Hardback edition (1 April 2021)
Vegetables have the extraordinary ability to regenerate themselves without fertilization – even your everyday kitchen scraps. With step-by-step illustrations, this guide shows you how to grow twenty vegetables that are every bit as delicious as their first incarnations.
Ranging from fruits and herbs that will sprout in a matter of days, to vegetables that will delight in later seasons, Regrown is an easy-to-follow guide to growing new plants, with a focus on repurposing produce found in any supermarket. The projects include everything from carrot tops and mushroom stalks to ginger, avocado and even pineapple, with tips on how to use them in the kitchen, too.
Grow new plants from your cooking scraps – all you need is a jar and a tapful of water… then just let nature do its thing.
