A better day weather-wise, so I went off to the Hill with the intention of digging up the second early POTATOES (osprey) & to start to knock the area by neighbour Ted’s plot into some order – to get the big tussocky weeds out & to level that area.
Reg-next-plot came up as I was digging up the potatoes, & he gave me an excellent lesson in preparing the potatoes for the Show. “Pick the most even – look you’ve plenty that are the same – & gently wash them with a sponge or cotton wool, being careful not to break the skin, then wrap them individually in newspaper,” he advised.
Cheery Brian & Pauline stopped by with a trug of goodies. “We’ve rescued our French beans from the weeds,” beamed Pauline, holding up rather a large specimen, “but they look a bit big, so I hope they are all right”. I said that she could always shell them & eat the beans on their own, if they’re woody, & off they went.
As I set about cutting down the PEAS (stephens) to take the pods home for drying & shelling, Jane & E arrived with a friend & her daughter. Jane showed them around the site – they chatted to John Badger from the bottom for some while then they came back up to the clubhouse to pick up a show schedule duly enthused for next weekend.
Happy with the potatoes, peas, I picked some sweetpeas & cut a couple of sizeable COURGETTES (all green bush), I then set about sorted out the side of the plot. This was less successful in that even with two huge buckets of weeds, a considerable number of scratches from the gooseberry bushes, & a great deal of puffing & panting whilst clod turning, the area is still looking like a very roughly ploughed field.
A work in progress, I think.
Reg-next-plot came up as I was digging up the potatoes, & he gave me an excellent lesson in preparing the potatoes for the Show. “Pick the most even – look you’ve plenty that are the same – & gently wash them with a sponge or cotton wool, being careful not to break the skin, then wrap them individually in newspaper,” he advised.Cheery Brian & Pauline stopped by with a trug of goodies. “We’ve rescued our French beans from the weeds,” beamed Pauline, holding up rather a large specimen, “but they look a bit big, so I hope they are all right”. I said that she could always shell them & eat the beans on their own, if they’re woody, & off they went.
As I set about cutting down the PEAS (stephens) to take the pods home for drying & shelling, Jane & E arrived with a friend & her daughter. Jane showed them around the site – they chatted to John Badger from the bottom for some while then they came back up to the clubhouse to pick up a show schedule duly enthused for next weekend.
Happy with the potatoes, peas, I picked some sweetpeas & cut a couple of sizeable COURGETTES (all green bush), I then set about sorted out the side of the plot. This was less successful in that even with two huge buckets of weeds, a considerable number of scratches from the gooseberry bushes, & a great deal of puffing & panting whilst clod turning, the area is still looking like a very roughly ploughed field.A work in progress, I think.
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