Two days ago, when I was up at the allotment I looked around and realised that the spinach and the mixed spicy salad leaves were eventually ready for picking and eating. All these weeks weeding, watering and looking after these plants and I'd actually forgotten that I'd sown the seeds in the hope that one day in the future I could pick them and eat them!
So picked them, took them home and washed them and prepared a salad with them and other bits and pieces that I had to buy from Tesco. I waited with baited breath when my hubby put his loaded fork to his mouth and..............................they were delicious!! So juicy and tasty. And I felt so satisfied that I'd help grow the wee seeds a few weeks back. That meal has certainly reminded me why I wanted an allotment in the first place - not to clear the mess and make a compost bin and tidy out the shed (although they've had to be done). No, it was to grow food for my family and friends that I knew hadn't been tainted with chemicals and wasn't shipped/flown from the other side of the world.
I'm so motivated now that I'm constantly thinking of what to grow next year, and how to serve/eat this year's crop.
This is one happy allotmenteer :D
Speak later, Christine
Saturday, 6 June 2009
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