Pushing up the daisies

• Wander helplessly round the beds admiring the creeping bindweed, the 2 foot high thistles and the redshank that is sprouting up all over the shop,
• Slap yourself around a bit and mumble, "stop whining you stupind bint and start digging",
• Get fork and dig over a large bed and plant 14 red cabbages and 7 broccoli plants and then make a quick nursery bed for the brussel sprouts that are crying out to be out in the open. Water the above.
• Stick your hands in among the huge rambling pea bed, get pricked by several thistly weed and pull out about a kilo and a half of peas.
• Dig up two Amandine potato plants and whinge and moan over the fact that there were about 2 spuds per plant :-(
• Go over to the raspberry bushes and be pleasantly surprised by the amoungt of ripe raspberries, about a dozen! (hang on, they were autumn fruiters last year???)
• Kneel down in the strawberry patch (first catch your foot in the netting and rip a nice hole in it) and get about a kilo of strawberries including some real whoppers.
• Pinch a gooseberry from the bush, eat it, wrinkle up your lips and decide that a week or two more would be a good idea.
• Pick 6 courgettes, including one that already got away and will be turned into ratatouille very quickly. There are green and yellow ones and they are beauties.
• Hotfoot it out of there because you are already late for a picnic event and you are covered in sweat, dirt and courgette leaf prickles (bastards).

Labels: cabbage, courgette, harvest, peas, potato, strawberry, summer

# posted by antipodesgirl @ 10:46 AM