I did it! hehehehehe
Posted by
Josie Barnshaw
on 8th August 2010
at 18:40
Hi Hayles
That's just lovely!! My parents grew a lot of fruit and veg as well. Many a time our mother gave myself and my brother a stick of rhubarb with some sugar in a twisted brown paper bag and we picked the peas from my dad's sweet pea nets and ate them straight from the pods and for afters we had the raspberries from his bushes at the back of the garden .... those were the days!!
I have rubbish soil in my garden ... the housebuilders just covered their rubble with the bare minimum of soil (about two inches) and underneath is bricks and large stones ... it's really difficult to find a spot for the small annual plants let alone growing veg. I have resorted to growing my carrots in containers and my potatoes in the new fangled potato sacks (but it's better than nothing). My parents always grew chives which we loved to just pick and eat as well. My lettuce grows in containers along with my tomatoes, but it's not quite the same as planting them into the ground.
Josie - Community Champion
Posted by
Elena - former Community Manager
on 9th August 2010
at 11:12
Very sweet story, Hayles! Sounds like lots of fun, too!
I hope you don't mind but I tidied up some of the line breaks in your post so that your paragraphs look more normal. Let me know if I got it wrong somewhere. Didn't change any of your words, just added paragraphs.
Hope you had a good weekend!
elena
Posted by
Hayles
on 9th August 2010
at 18:49
Hi Elena,
Thanku for doing that. It's fine.
We picked some rhubarb earlier, so shall get some apples & make a yummy crumble tomorrow. Never use to have green fingers, but must be doing something right.
Hayles x
Posted by
Elena - former Community Manager
on 10th August 2010
at 08:49
Mmmm, crumble.
Sometimes the instinct and knowledge just kicks in, I reckon!
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Posted by
Hayles
on 8th August 2010
at 18:02
My Dad would be proud
Growing up as a child I was always helping my Gramp & Dad in their veg gardens. They planted so much. My favourite time was when everything was ready to pick.
There is many a memories of me sitting either under my Gramp's Apple, Pear or Plum tree. Plucking the fresh fruit from the branches & eating it. My gramp was right however, eating to many plums gave you a tummy ache. lol
My other favourite was rumaging through the soil looking for potato's to cook, pulling carrots fresh from the ground & yes I ate them straight down dirt & all Collecting the pea pods & secretly ( well they led me to believe ) I would open them & eat them.
When Mark was born I wanted nothing more than for my Dad to do it with him & let him enjoy what I did as a child. Mark helped his Grampy plant fruit & veg. But because we don't leave near them, he never enjoyed the fun of straight from the ground.
D decided on a BBQ for tonight. We looked at our garden full of veg & decided lets see. So with Mark's help we rummaged through the soil for potato's, we have new potato's to go with our BBQ. We then went onto the carrots & pulled some up & yes once again we ate them soil & all. Then it was onto the peas, pulling the pods off & collecting them in a bowl to take indoors to pod. Mark secretly eating them as he went but Mummy didn't see or did she, lol
So we have New potato's with mint, baby carrots & peas with our BBQ tonight.
But more importantly I have started something with my son & I will continue to give him the wonderful memories my Gramp & Dad gave me.
A lot of the younger generation have probably never done anything like this. Some of the younger mums of nowadays frown when I say I let Mark eat soil from a carrot or peas straight from the pod. But I am still alive & it did me no harm.I just wanted to share with everyone what an amazing last hour or so I have shared with my son & we have had so much fun.
Hayles x