Sunday 22 June 2008

midsummer madness

It certainly feels like midsummer here, not because of the weather which is very windy but because of the state of growth. Everything is at least waist height, or so it seems. However, some of the plants that I’d given up on have obviously benefited from the recent rain and are, particularly the tomatoes, looking to have a new lease of life after a parched start. In some other beds seeds are germinating that I sowed months ago and that I had given up on. In my shed the cucurbits seem to have all worked this year after a disaster last year and this will be my first job when I come here again, to get them out and into the ground.

It is odd knowing that some of the produce I’ve sown and nurtured will be someone else’s banquet but so long as it doesn’t go to waste this is not a bad thing. I have decided to move my shed to my new garden in Cornwall and to hand over the allotment at the end of September. I am beginning to detach from it already as I’ve had a report to write but now I’m back it has hooked me in again and I have to say I am calmer than I’ve been for some time.