Mini vegetables

One of the things I always enjoy so much when I visit South Africa is the mini vegetables. I think growing them is a very well kept secret, and have come to the conclusion that most of the time they are just picked early. That might be very helpful in my climate - fraught with humidity and lots of bugs. Searching on the internet has come up with two different options - hybrid seeds bred to produce smaller varieties or growing the plants very close together and harvesting early. One thing the mini vegetables are used for is to cook in a potjie. This is a cast iron three legged pot and it is cooked for a long time over a fire - or in reality just a few coals mounded around and some laid on the lid. My brother cooked a marvelous chicken potjie, flavored with ginger, scallions, lemongrass and coconut milk. Once the chicken was almost cooked a layer of mini vegetables were...