No Air Miles Here

Sorry to be such a bore going on about the veg patch but it is a total revelation to us. As you know I was never in to veg but I am now. It's so exciting seeing all these seeds germinating like mustard and cress (yawn, yawn). I have just read a book called "Allotted Time". It's about two chaps going through a midlife crisis, divorce, career problems etc. and one had severe depression. They decided to take on an allotment and it saved their sanity. The one with depression now has a new career as a "writer". So it would seem that a veg patch is a panacea for all ills.

It gets even better, the harvest. We are frantically eating mixed herb salad. We obviously had a boar rooting all the way along under the established trees a couple of nights ago but fingers crossed he has not found the veg yet.

On Saturday we went to an open day at a local organic garden. The gardener initially gave a guided tour and then a talk - we were very pleased that we could follow what was going on. Dont worry I'm not going to start growing camomile, borage etc. The garden was too untidy for me, I'm not into herbs flopping all over the place, particularly as you seem to get just as many black fly.

However I plan to use some of his ideas so on Sunday we went to a plant fair to buy some things he recommended and some pretty things as well!