I’ve started a vegie garden. Using my late dad’s garden as inspiration I’m going to create a tiny Italian garden. His garden had a huge variety of vegetables all year round. It was like a little market garden in an Australian suburban backyard. He grew eggplant, beans–several varieties, artichokes–which my mum would stuff and cook in a tomato sauce, tomatoes, spring onions, asparagus, zucchini, basil, mint, parsley, peas, snow peas, silver beet, rape–pronounced rarpear, broccoli, and on it goes. My patch is only about 2metres by 3metres so it can never replicate my dad’s garden but I hope it can capture its soul.