The other day I picked 5 lone (but large) cherries from the tree in my front garden. I had spent the evening, reading on a chair in the sun and suddenly saw that this miniature cherry had these beautiful looking fruit.
They were unlike anything I had ever tasted, and that feeling of having grown something, tended it, and now having brought forth fruit, eating it was fantastic…
And so it is they tasted a thousand times better than supermarket cherries although this will have spoilt me as far as they are concerned, as I won’t be buying them as they have too much to live up to.
Suddenly I started looking at the giant puffed up but flabourless fruit and veg we have on the supermarket shelves. If any of you are used to growing lettuce in the garden…IT TASTES OF MORE THAN JUST CRISPY WATER, its like trout caught wild from a stream has the tsate of the strem in it….these things have soul and we need to thank god and our ancestors for this bounty.
I love gardening and try to grow a few things every year..we are suffering a dry spell in the Southern Uk at the moment, however my gooseberries look good as do my black currants…hmm I once went to the Egton Gooseberry fair in Yorkshire, well worth the visit, but I can’t remember when..hang on I’ll check…
Egton Bridge Gooseberry Fair
2 Aug 2005 (annual)
in
St Hedda’s Schoolroom , Egton Bridge , England
Opening Hours:
2-5pm
200 years after its origin, entrants to this competition at St Hedda’s Schoolroom are as enthusiastic as ever.
where gardeners enter their biggest gooseberries into one of four classes: red gooseberries (Lord Derby); yellow ones (Woodpecker); greens (Fascination) and white ones. The prizes are household goods – The heaviest gooseberry is measured in old fashioned drams and grains. Anyhow suffice to say past winners were the size of a golf ball.
We have na amazing capacity for these kinds of shows, last year i went to the East Dean Village show, east dean is near Eastbourne in Sussex, and after looking at the prize vegtables, went on to tea and listening to the brass band in the sunshine…..ahhh England
oh yes and for those on birdmans site don’t forget:
International Bognor Birdman
20 – 21 Aug 2005 (annual)
Seafront Pier – at Bognor Regis
I think I digressed from the wonder of home grown food but the wonder of the british summer is these idiosyncratic events, coupled with home grown produce!
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