Plot July 2004

Harvest time. My first spuds and onions. Tomatillos are mexican husk tomatoes, related to cape gooseberries. These have grown out the top of the lean-to greenhouse and are now producing masses of fruit. I like blackberries, they are a food of my childhood. Something I`d never eaten until a plot neighbour gave me one was butternut squash, now I have butternut squash growing nicely. (One was later stolen) There are melons in the cold frame. The flowers have to be fertilized by hand but they all made babies, some rotted but I was still able to enjoy the smell of melons ripening on my kitchen window sill on my wedding day. The mysterious pink flower is one of many seeds I planted and the poppies seed themselves much more sucessfully.

A Duel of Delight and Desperation