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MY PLOT ON THE WHOLE, everything went all right last summer after a very late start. I had loads of peas and beans and I managed to grow fennel without it bolting uselessly. Also, I followed some advice I was given to succeed with parsnips which can be summarised as plant them all over the place all of the time! So I did, I planted loads of rows in different places every week or so. Some grew, some didn’t – no rhyme or reason to it – but there’s ended up being plenty enough. So I cracked the difficult crop but at the same time failed dismally with one that is usually idiot-proof – spinach. How is it possible to get spinach to flower then die when it is only 5cm high? A repeat sowing didn’t even bother growing! Meanwhile I grew a fantastic crop of horsetails that I sun-dried for compost production. I’ve adopted an ‘if you can’t beat it, join it’ approach to horsetails. Since they are indestructible, then the best thing is to make the most of them. Although I’ve heard that they’re useful for scouring dirty saucepans, I can’t think that I’d ever need my whole crop, and though I was told you can make a tea with them, frankly I don’t fancy it. Best then to ignore them until they get in the way, then pull them up and leave them to die before dumping them on the heap to make the loveliest compost ever. Brilliant potato year. Clean as a whistle with no holes or scabs. I planted them really late so I don’t know if that was the secret to my success. I don’t even know what varieties they were because a nameless person, who helped me to plant them, screwed up the bags they came in before I could write down what they were! I’ve decided to get rid of my late raspberries. This is a major departure from my earlier worship of this crop. I used to sing its praises but now I think it’s a complete thug – it’s in the blackberry, smothered the gooseberries, the currants; it’s in my neighbours plots (sorry) and threatening to take over the world! In fact its so busy spreading that it doesn’t even bother to fruit properly. And that’s worthy of a death sentence. Caroline Mazzey 27
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