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Post by alicat on Mar 29, 2008 1:29:00 GMT 1
Occasionally I look at the adverts at the top of the board and tonight I saw this one. www.livingit.com/gardening/pgArticle.aspx?aid=150 For me it seemed to hit alot of thoughts that I have, - like trying to persuade my daughter not to eat/buy strawberries at this time of year because of air miles. (Their her favourite fruit btw.) I also love the thought of going down the garden and picking fresh veg from the garden for the dinner table. Sooo......... What has made you grow fruit and veg in the garden.? |
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Post by 4pygmies on Mar 29, 2008 10:51:51 GMT 1
Hiya Ali! Well, I come from a long line of country peasants and from a very small girl I can remember loving my grandparents fruit and vegetable garden. I spent hours in it as a child digging up carrots etc with my Grandad or holding a bowl while Nanna threw raspberries and redcurrants in it from the depths of her overgrown fruit bushes (she had a theory that if she couldn't see the fruit, neither could the birds ;D). Then I would sit with Nanna shelling peas and beans by the back door, even plucking a chicken with her (I couldn't do that now...). My parents had a big fruit and vegetable garden too and Dad worked in it most weekends. So I suppose I have just always had that example in front of me. I certainly couldn't imagine any garden of mine without a veggie patch - I love the flowers but they are secondary to the growing of food as far as I'm concerned.  |
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Post by madonplants on Mar 29, 2008 13:31:38 GMT 1
Occasionally I look at the adverts at the top of the board and tonight I saw this one. www.livingit.com/gardening/pgArticle.aspx?aid=150 For me it seemed to hit alot of thoughts that I have, - like trying to persuade my daughter not to eat/buy strawberries at this time of year because of air miles. (Their her favourite fruit btw.) I also love the thought of going down the garden and picking fresh veg from the garden for the dinner table. Sooo......... What has made you grow fruit and veg in the garden.? Lots of reasons Ali. As most people know, my Dad was a gardener for the gentry and at the big house there was a large vegetable garden, just outside the kitchen door, hidden away from the main garden, where the fruit and veg was grown. In the summer holidays or any school break for that matter, if I wasn't down the farm or playing with the spanish couple's kids in the big house, I would be found helping my Dad with the veg, one way or the other. Quite often though, I would have left him alone to go into the wooded area of the big garden to find the various wildlife that lived there! The spanish couple were the cooks for the big house and she brought the kids to the big house in the summer holidays. They went to boarding school, if I remember correctly. Obviously, there was always too much in the veg garden for the big house, so we used to get, alongwith the other gardener, the leftovers, so to speak. So we nearly always had fresh veg and as everyone knows, it does taste better. The air miles bit is definately worth thinking about, as it is surprising how far some of it comes from. If I had 4P's space or an allotment, I would do more than I do now, but any little helps, doesn't it? Keith |
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