Tuesday, 5 August 2008

Grow your Own Veg - Stapeley Style - Part 2

My concern over plant pilfering is escalating; yes someone has stolen the courgettes! There were 3 or so 4-5 inchers that were most promising but as pointed out to Aunty Rhinum by ‘M’ the plant is naked, sabotage is suspected, and ‘M’ is chief suspect. Whilst thinning the radish Aunty Rhinum gave one a try, before Loo Pins and Polly Anthus consumed the crop, she’s not keen on anything remotely healthy and the radish is sadly not the one to convert her, I think it’s in the compost bin.

Talking of compost, ours is coming along nicely, we are collecting all manner of uneaten food from the ‘brew room’, goodness knows who packs their lunches but there seems an awful lot to me.
It appears we have something amiss with our cabbages. A very kind gentleman pointed this out to Aunty Rhinum , who hasn’t got the vaguest idea, I can feel a visit to her dads pending as they appear to be all crinkly and yellow, the
cabbages that is not Aunty Rhinum's dad.
We are off to
Tatton Park this week so maybe the mysterious cabbage calamity can be averted! We can always borrow some of theirs………..
Aunty Rhinum has another plan, Douglas Fir, Loo Pins and Polly Anthus look distinctly unsettled, apparently she wants to make an
apocathary Garden; no one has the faintest idea what she is banging on about, best order a book I feel. Chickens have been mentioned which gave Loo Pins a glimmer of hope, she wants a Gloucester old spot, we have pointed out this is a pig but she’s determined……

Apocathary garden coming soon………