Issue 118 - the Pembury Village Website

SNIPPETS continued from page 23these are just the kind of records we would liketo hear about.Lorinda Jewsbury Support OfficerEmail: lorinda.jewsbury@kmbrc.org.ukTelephone: 01622 685646/685780Farmers’ MarketPembury Parish Council is warmly supportingthe idea proposed by the landlord of theCamden Arms to hold a Farmers’ Market(probably quarterly) on the Village Green. TheTunbridge Wells Farmers’ Market has been agreat success and the Council very muchwelcomes this type of additional facility for theresidents of Pembury.Advance Notice –Coffee Morning and SaleThe friends of Pembury Parish Church will holdtheir annual Coffee Morning and sale onSaturday 4 September 2004 between 10am andnoon on the Village Green or, if wet, in theUpper Church.There will be many attractive stalls includingcakes, handicrafts, gifts, paperbacks, posh junk,preserves, plants, FPPC items, a tombola andrefreshments.Do please put this date in your diaries and comeand support us.Biddy Willson on 822029 can always collect‘non perishables’.MY PLOTI am so behind!Every time I’m free, it rains/snows/hails and when thesun comes out I’m stuck at work. Disaster – I knowthere’s always ‘next year’ but at this rate we’re goingto go hungry (well OK, we’ll have to buy it allinstead).I have got a greenhouse full of beans of many coloursthat hopefully by the time this is read, will betransplanted into open ground. And I’ve got acardboard box full of bags of potatoes sprouting in mykitchen that will hopefully also be planted soon. They are already really late so there will be noearly new spuds for me. (Altogether now – aaaaaaah!).At times like these I am glad that one of my plots is permanently planted with fruit. Even if I didnothing, I would still get a crop of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, currants andgooseberries. My Victoria plum had plenty of blossom this spring so a good crop should follow.Last year there was almost none. The pattern for the past few years seems to be two years ‘on’,one year ‘off’. I’d be interested to know whether other people notice the same.Thank you to the artichoke fans and non-fans that contacted me about globe and Jerusalemartichokes. Loads of gems of information emerged that revolved significantly around thewindiness factor! That aside, it turns out that they may even be poised to become an alternativemedicine ...If only a use could be found for horsetails. Horsetails are one of the main weeds on theallotments and they are practically invincible. When the nuclear holocaust hits and onlycockroaches are left, it’ll be horsetails that they are living amongst. The only good thing I’vefound is that if you leave them to die in a barrow (away from anywhere where they could rootback into the ground) they are the quickest plants to rot down that I ever knew. Horsetails makethe most crumbly, lovely compost ever. Really!Caroline Mazzey25