The food growing saga continues. The purple sprouting broccoli have left the relative safety of their pots and are now in the ground surrounded by organic slug pellets. I am happy to report that they have survived for 5 days without being eaten by anything else. I am conducting daily surveillance and things are looking good but will I keep this up for a year? Who knows.
A thought struck me the other day. You spend a whole year nurturing your broccoli, seeing it through the rough times until it's finally ready to be eaten and then it takes just 5 minutes to shovel it down your throat. I am still trying to get my head round this. Surely broccoli deserves the status of caviar.
Another thought struck me. Mother Earth spends a year fuelling the broccoli with nutrients and goodness and then some people spend 15 minutes boiling the living day lights out of it. What a waste. I am going to eat mine raw.
