Although my life is pretty much dominated by all things yarn, I occasionally allow other areas to encroach, you know; cleaning, cooking, homework............and this year, veg growing. This is partly because I’ve spent the last couple of years watching my neighbour systematically turn his bare, brown winter plots into and mass of colour, texture and taste through early spring to late autumn. Whilst being a year round knitter, I’m proving to be a fair weather gardener so I didn’t really get started before the end of April. At which point I bought two raised bed kits and stuck them on a bit of land I thought might get some sun. I wasn’t sure what to grow so picked up half-price seed potatoes; a couple of tomato plants for sale on the side of the road; found some beetroot seeds which came free with a magazine and bought some end of season courgette and French bean plants in a sale at the local garden centre. They all went in over one warmish week at the beginning of May and then pretty much got left – I think I watered them when it was hot in June and pulled out the odd shoot of bind-wind when I was walking past – but honestly, I really did leave them to their own devices. I didn’t stake the tomatoes, thin the beetroot or go near anything with insecticide (not that I want to do that anyway!) so I feel a bit of a fraud that I now have the harvest bowl pictured above. A gardening friend has intimated that this was beginners luck; whether yes or no ..............we’ll find out next year!
No comments:
Post a Comment