Good things about gardening in the rain? The weeds come out very easily. Tha bad news? There are loads of them and they get bigger-not by the day but by the minute. I grew verbascum from seed-a mixed packet. They are huge, but far from mixed. All the same soft yellow, and huge floppy silver leaves, nicknamed beggars blankets . So will have hollyhocks in flower soon backed up with verbascum.
Eating the last of the first sown lettuce, first of the baby broad beans, Charlottes, redcurrants and 13 raspberries. Picked 6lbs of gooseberries. Time for the gooseberry fool( from the French verb fouler-to crush-it does not mean someone foolish and feckless enough to put 1 pint of cream into a pudding)
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Mmm broad beans. And Charlottes. And home grown lettuce. I'm jealous. I was a mad crazy keen gardener for years and even here in my small plot I built two beds for veg, but the writing... the writing... I can't tear myself away. I've grown no veg this year and instead maganged to cultivated some statuesque thistles and around seventy types of grass!
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Love this! Gardening, food and French! Very jealous of your produce - and verbascums! Never grown them - saw one in Wistow on Saturday for £11.99! Nearly had to call for paramedics!
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