Pimms Catastrophe averted!
Sep
4
Written by:
04/09/2010 16:38
Each year we think we are getting wiser and more organised and in the end we simply end up learning more and realising that we still have infinite knowledge to collect. This year I thiought I was being clever in the garden, I had noted last season what plants grew well and what suffered. I then kept a track on the plants that started to grow out of control and when they needed control. I monitored what liked certain areas of the garden and what benefited from shade and what liked the shelter.
Sothis year Iinsured that the Horseradish was well marked and not mistaken as Dockens, i constricted the mint inplastic pots so it did not overrun the garden and kept the fennel and dill well apart. It all seemd so simple and was all looking like a plan coming together. But then over the last week the sunshine and and dry weather has put a spanner in the works. Although it has helped fruit in the garden to ripen it has also encouraged plants to go to seed before I was ready for them, we cannot harvest the potatoes quickly enough as they shoot and the radish are looking like they should be entering the Guinness book of records due to their size but i am sorry to report that the taste is not so positive.
Anyway yesterday we nearly had a catastrophe as the mint patch I have been using began to look barren and when we moved to the next patch all now well contained and controlled we found it had gone to seed and the new green shoots were not quite ready for harvesting. Luckily as I walked back through the kitchen looking a little disconsolate one of the team mentioned he had seen a new patch growing outside the garden and described the location. I soon tracked it down and sure enough there was what seemed like an endless supply of fresh strong mint which I quickly harvested and returned to the happy Pimms Drinker. It now turns out that when we stripped the rampaging Mint from the garden last year this was the spot where we had disposed of it.
Clearly not put off by te eviction the mint had simply continued to rampage and luckily for me it had not gone un noticed!