The plants will grow about 4 to 7 feet tall, and can serve as a beautiful, dark green fernlike companion to summer flowering perennials and herbs. Growing advice has changed, and there are a few misguided people who don't believe, as Debbie and I do, that springtime was invented to enjoy fresh asparagus. If you already have an established sunny perennial border, the sun and soil requirements are in place to add asparagus any time from late November to Valentine's Day. Like fresh sweet...

You are in: News >SA News THE WEEK IN REVIEW All the stories from the past 7 days KLEINMOND Food prices a global worry Mon, 19 Nov 2007 There is "deep concern" among the world's largest economies about rapidly rising global food prices, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Sunday. You are in: News >SA News THE WEEK IN REVIEW All the stories from the past 7 days KLEINMOND Food prices a global worry Mon, 19 Nov 2007 There is "deep concern" among the world's largest economies about rapidly...

WASHINGTON . A rewrite of the farm bill fell victim Friday to a Republican filibuster in the Senate, threatening enactment of expanded subsidies promised to farmers by lawmakers seeking re-election. The five-year bill would extend and expand crop and dairy subsidies along with popular nutrition aid programs, including food stamps. Immediately after supporters fell five votes short of breaking a Republican filibuster, key lawmakers huddled on how to revive it. Kent Conrad, a North Dakota...

There's a frantic exchange of e-mails in the weeks beforehand: Why do the French have such puny pumpkins? How do you translate ''dry ice''?I spent that day escorting my 2-year-old to expatriate parties, where other parents confessed to schlepping candy corn back from business trips and to having relatives FedEx costumes across the Atlantic. There's a frantic exchange of e-mails in the weeks beforehand: Why do the French have such puny pumpkins? How do you translate ''dry ice''?I spent that...

Chemical and crop production experts have warned that the high concentration of cadmium substances in fertiliser used by rice farmers is inimical to human health. The dons who made the outcome of their studies public at the ninth annual conference of the Nigerian Association of Agricultural Economists (NAAE), advised fertiliser manufacturers to maintain low cadmium level during production. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quotes the researchers as saying indiscriminate consumption of rice...

This statement follows after the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has barred all retail outlets and supermarkets from selling goods in excess of $100 000 ($100 million) in cash of the old foreign currency. The acting chief executive added that farmers might be cheated, because the illegal dealers will sell the same products to GMB at $31000 ($31 million) per tonne, while they get the same quantity at more than more than the gazetted price. GMB warns farmers against old currency Business Reporter...