I’m no gardening expert. I do grow vegetables, herbs, fruit and some nuts. It’s just a matter of giving it a go and harvesting whatever results you get. A few years ago I started planting pea seeds directly into the soil of my garden and you’ll never believe it, but pea plants started to grow in the same spot I left the seeds. Amazing. The tiny little plants grew larger and larger, eventually flowering. Those pretty flowers turned into peas and I ate them. Fresh off the vine, bursting with that pea-ness flavour in my mouth. Yes, you just said that in your head. Ha, ha, ha, got you!
Jokes aside, fresh garden-grown peas – amazing food, right? And in the garden bed right next to them sits a crop of potatoes. I probably shouldn’t harvest the potatoes yet – it’s a bit early – but, bugger it, I’m going to make a meal of tucker straight from the patch and it’s going to taste like amazing. And just because fresh garden peas are so damn healthy, I’ll add bacon to even out the nutritional balance. And, well, smoky bacon just makes everything all right.