I had a great hazard to visit a Tai garden this week .
“ I do n’t have much right now , ” she told me as we stepped out back . “ The lizard got a lot of my plants . ”
South Florida suffers from an invasion of vegetarian iguanas , yet what they left behind was still telling . Katuk … moringa … ananas … papaya … kang kong … kaffir lime … three different basil varieties and a whole mess of Asian herbs and vegetable alien to me were scatter out in container .
Kiddie syndicate house some of the bounteousness , and everything from coolers to pots were stuffed to overflowing .
We stood in the rain as it was getting dark . Our hostess was my wife Rachel ’s aunt . We were there for dinner ( which , by the bye , was an amazing bed cover of Thai food … I ’ve rarely eat so well in my intact life ) and had to take the garden tour .
She told me that she grew some plant as food coloring for various confections . A pea vine provided blue … another plant give up a golden dyestuff and so on . “ I do n’t buy any intellectual nourishment colour . All natural , ” she said , waving a manus at her garden .
Beyond the locoweed and containers , she had a stand of pineapples , plus mango , jackfruit , sugar apple , banana and other gravid perennial .
If you live in a tropic blank space like South Florida , what areyoudoing withyourlife ? You could be eating fresh all class .
This Tai garden is n’t fancy – and it ’s decidedly been chewed up by a now - mysteriously - missing iguana – but it keep the house render with plenty of fresh greens , spice and yield .
Gardening does n’t have to be a heavy affaire with cedar tree beds and perfect spacing . Get out back and get constitute . If you need help , make admirer with someone from Southeast Asia .
Unlike Americans , they cognize what to do with a back yard .
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