Green Fingers

As part of the journey of recovery after losing Ruby, I decided to put my time at home into growing some vegetables, something I knew very little about. So, during the spring I sowed packets and packet of seeds of all kind of salad and in the mini greenhouse that I had been given planted tomatoes and cucumbers.

Over the last month or so, Mike and I have enjoyed eating the various types of salad leaves and cucumbers that shot up and grew so quickly. Last weekend, though was the big day, the day when we harvested the rest of our crops. As we emptied our potato buckets out our anticipation grew waiting for the 10 - 15kg crop we had been promised from the potato company only to be rather disappointed at the rather meagre supply we seemed to have grown. Not only that but none of the potatos were any bigger than a golf ball.

Putting our deflated feelings aside we tackled the next crop of spring onions, 2 packets, planted out into 5 rows. I had already prepared myself for some disappointment as we had watched a large army of snails munch their way through some of the tops over the previous month but nevertheless, we were ever hopeful of making our favourite spring onion soup. But it was not to be, one small, little but perfectly formed spring onion was all that we pulled from our troughs. The carrots were marginally better having produced 5 rather bent short but perfectly sweet root vegetables which we roasted that night along with some of the potatoes and were absolutely delicious.

I am however, feeling a lot more confident about our tomato supply which we have watched grow over the past few months into 2 metre high plants that are absolutely laden down with fruit which the sun is now ripening at a very fast rate. So I know that these will be our pride and joy and luckily one of our favourite veggies too as we will be overloaded with tomatoes in a couple of weeks time.

Still as the proud grower of such legumes I felt they righly deserved a proper arrangment even if they were never to be entered into the local horticultural society competition. Well, maybe next year....