Friday, August 13, 2010
Allotment video diary from Romania
Tim and Eliza show you the wonderful fruit and vegetables growing in her Granny's garden in Romania. The garden illustrates the traditional Romanian suburban house that has an ornamental garden at the front with a courtyard to the rear. Further back is an orchard and vegetable garden that stretch out to the countryside beyond.
Romania has a great climate for growing a range of fruit and vegetables and many people are virtually self-sufficient growing food in the summer months and then preserving it to eat over the winter. We had great fun making this video whilst on our holidays!
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Dear Tim, Living for much of my time in Budapest, I am very aware of the rural gardens in both Hungary and Romania. As you say, many people are self-sufficient in growing their own fruit and vegetables as well as their own grapes for wine making. In my view, the tomatoes I buy in the market in Budapest are the best I have ever tasted.
ReplyDeleteHi Edith, thank you so much for your comment and I am so glad you can get tasty tomatoes from the Budapest market. They are probably grown in the locality, which usually makes all the difference in terms of cost and flavour. We find the market grown fruit and vegetables in Romania are of much higher quality and much less expensive than even the large supermarkets there, which is great because unfortunately it is the other way around here in Ireland!
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