X is a very difficult letter. We found some plants beginning with X but we didn't know whether we could eat them, and this blog is about food! We eat the cross-roads between the vegetable patches as that is where we do our lawn-mowing duties most diligently. Even Hugo was diligent about lawn-mowing. It means …
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We like Wagg Optimum Pellets and Wagg Guinea Pig Crunch (muesli). I've been talking about the fresh vegetables we like because people get confused about what piggies can and can't eat. Basically a nice balanced diet consists of the amount of pellets per pig it says on the packet (35 g to 50 g a …
Vetch is another British wild flower. It is a lovely climbing plant with pretty leaves and nice purple flowers. Mummy lets it grow down in the shady garden where Hugo is. She was very happy to see it growing there. I think it likes dampish ground. It's very yummy. I think it's a little bit …
I bet you don't know what that is! It was very hard to find something beginning with U. I had to use the special Latin name they use for naming plants. Mummy said if I didn't want to use this one I could talk about the Umbelliferous plants that we eat. But I've already done …
Timothy is a type of grass. There was a picture of it when I did G for Grass. It has a head that's like a furry tail. It grows in meadows and all sorts of places. It grows sometimes in mummy's garden and that isn't a meadow. The leaves and stalk are nice as well …
I bet you havent heard of Salsify. Mummy says not many people have. Salsify and Scorzonera are two vegetables that are almost the same except the second one has black-skinned roots. In Germany it is called Schwarzwurzel which means blackroot. I haven't tried the root but the leaves are delicious. They are even nicer than …
George's Guinea Pig World 