Property News · July 2, 2016

Modern tribes: the allotment owner


If you don’t like courgette quiche you could do courgette wine, or courgette curry, there’ll be another sackful tomorrow, help yourself Anyone want some home-grown courgettes, fresh picked from the lotty? At 6am this morning. Come on, if you don’t like courgette quiche you could do courgette wine, or courgette curry, there’ll be another sackful tomorrow, help yourself, try a courgette cake, apparently you can’t even taste the courgettes. Take a couple more, just cut those bits off, course they’re not rat bites, even the rats are fed up with courgettes, no seriously the allotment was amazing today, you pick up a trowel and the stress just drains away, then there’s the sheer satisfaction of producing your own courgettes, I mean produce.So we’ve got onions, courgettes, potatoes, courgettes, beans, I think, if the rats haven’t got them, but that’s our first season, next year we’re doing salsify, kohlrabi, cavolo nero, daikon, patty pan squashes, you know how much those cost in Waitrose? No, me neither, but the saving’s incredible even when you factor in our time, plus the shed, the water butt, the compost maker and the manure – well, without it we’d never have courgettes this size, don’t worry, totally organic. Though you might want to wash them anyway, God knows how much weedkiller we sprayed on the couch grass and brambles from the last people. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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