Watched a recording of GQT last night. Won’t spill the beans on the programme (out early feb), except for a few nuggets:
- The apple in the Garden of Eden was, in fact, a pomegranate.
- Watercress is easy to grow – try in a washing bowl, drilled with drainage holes and filled with compost, floating in a tub of water.
- Want to know the greatest myth in gardening? That – as TV shows claim – you can make a garden in an afternoon or week of work.
- For early crops, try blackening the soil, for example by spreading with powdered charcoal.
- Popeye and his spinach addiction was based on a mistake – a study stated spinach had incredible levels of iron but the decimal place was incorrect.
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