The covid has me half cracked, so I'm taking it out on the garden, being as food-productive as possible in dread of a sere recession. Got kale, got red kale, got Daubenton's kale, chard, courgettes, tomatoes, parsley Italian Giant, got holy basil and bush basil and Little Gem lettuces, beetroot, kohlrabi, potatoes (charlotte, carlos, pink fir apple), gooseberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants, blackberry canes (2, thornless), winter savory, mint, sage, rosemary, thyme… A few flowers too: Brompton and night-scented stock, Italian violet-scented sweet pea, rose geranium, roses (of kinds whose hips make great jam). Going to start a meconopsys (sp?) and some dame's rocket next. Hoping for a crab-apple tree and a damson tree come autumn…
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