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The edible garden dream
Chopping vegetables at the kitchen counter this morning with heavy snow,
gusting sideways across my line of vision and wondering which gardening
subject readers may find of interest next, it suddenly struck me that the
majority of ingredients for vegetable spaghetti sauce I was making actually
came from my garden.
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Making a herb garden
Everyone can have a herb garden no matter which region of the country they
reside in. If you live in cities such as Karachi and Lahore, chances are that
you will be able to grow a wider variety of tender herbs during the cooler
winter months than in the hot summer ones. But no matter where you are, there
are quite a number of perennial herbs which can take both extremes of hot and ...
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Cheerful flowers
The well known chrysanthemum family of plants, which is actually a member
of the Asteraceae genus, comprises of 20 distinct varieties all thought to
have originated in Europe and Central and Eastern Asia, with particular
emphasis being placed on China and Japan where certain species were
cultivated as long as 2,000 years ago.
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Ostrich syndrome
ring problematic situations in anticipation of them simply disappearing is
a peculiar middle-class mindset that is extremely prevalent in the Pakistan
of today. Such people, on the whole, consider the fast deteriorating economic
climate as being nothing to do with them: neither is the political circus any
of their doing, nor load shedding, climate change, militant activity in all ...
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Walking on the wild side
The incredible importance of indigenous wild plants, especially of wild
flowers, is not very well understood by members of the general population who
simply take for granted that wild flowers will always be a basic and integral
part of the environment but, very sadly indeed, they could not be more wrong!
21 May, 2013
08 April, 2012
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Mind your mess
Picture this A big black dirty footprint on your Mum`s new white carpet and
guys, aren`t you in trouble?
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Water
The current furore over the Chashma-Jhelum link canal is a sick sign of
these increasingly water-stressed times: times which will become dire indeed
as climate change – read drought for Pakistan – increases on an
unprecedented scale in the years to come.
21 May, 2013
14 July, 2010
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Waste not, want not
In a country where as much as 60 per cent of the population of over 180
million is either
21 May, 2013
17 August, 2012
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The taming of the screw
The ‘protected’ forests of the Murree area are in no way exempt
from the depredations of the timber mafia and are further damaged by the
pyromaniacal tendencies of the indigenous population for whom possession of a
box of matches provides an irresistible temptation to create hell on earth.
These two activities generally take place on the sly.
21 May, 2013
19 June, 2011
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Breaking the circle of ignorance
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21 May, 2013
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04 February, 2013