Some of the gardeners from PTC sneaked off for a week's sunshine and checked out how they grow fruit and veg in Mauritius! Well! They grow such a variety of both all over the island. Aubergines are widely grown. Pineapples, bananas (of course) papayas, guavas, mangoes (slurp!) sweet peppers, chillie peppers, sugar cane, coconuts (galore!) onions (very popular) salad veg of every kind, tomatoes etc etc. The soil is volcanic, deep, dark and fertile. The humidity is high and the temperature is consistently hot so many crops in a single season. Mauritians are very hard working and little land is wasted. Their mountains ensure decent rainfall. All the many plots we saw were very well tended and there was no sign of any chickens vandalising precious crops! In fact this hen and her chicks on a roadside were the only ones we saw.
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