A hundred shades of growing green (and a few red leaves too)

Jackie French
March 28 2021 - 4:00am
The Marvel of Four Seasons lettuce is arguably the sweetest leaf of all. Picture: Shutterstock
The Marvel of Four Seasons lettuce is arguably the sweetest leaf of all. Picture: Shutterstock

The pumpkin vines are sulking - they needed more days of sunlight for the bees to pollinate their flowers. But the green veg are growing almost as fast as the weeds.

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Jackie French

Jackie French

Canberra Times columnist

Jackie French is an Australian author, historian, ecologist and honourary wombat (part time), 2014-2015 Australian Children' Laureate and 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. She also writes a gardening column for The Canberra Times.

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