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August 6, 2010 | All going horribly wrong in the vegetable patch For starters, a rat or mouse has been chomping on my oh so wierd squash zuccheta Serpente di Sicilia. It in turn is strangling the nearby runner beans. Trailing amain, it thirstily treats every watering can’s worth as an excuse to put on another 40 cms in tentacle growth. Over all, sunflowers like blocks of [...]  August 4, 2010 | Trial fields and Wolsey woven together by Ernst Neto trial fields at Thompson and Morgan I had a very strange day that started with marvelling at stunted sunflowers in a rainy trial field by Ipswich. The rush of motorway traffic, made louder by the rain, dinned our ears. Pylons lurked and rain slanted down on a crowd of the horticulturally hooked . We put [...] August 4, 2010 | Strolling past this plant, it finally got the better of me and I came home and looked it up in a book. It’s name is Chicorium intybus otherwise known as chicory. It is truly blue and to my untutored eye looked like a dandelion dipped in a paintpot. Blanched stems are meant to be a delicacy - produced by excluding light in the same way that rhubarb [...] |
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