{"id":4787,"date":"2013-03-29T16:21:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T16:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greensideup.ie\/?p=4787"},"modified":"2015-07-19T00:28:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T23:28:30","slug":"a-breezy-couple-of-hours-in-the-vegetable-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/a-breezy-couple-of-hours-in-the-vegetable-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"A breezy couple of hours in the vegetable garden"},"content":{"rendered":"
At last, a few hours working in our own breezy but dry vegetable garden.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n There’s nothing like a rant, rave & wrestle with a vegetable bed full of creeping buttercups to clear the mind, or the satisfaction when the job’s finally finished!<\/p>\n Three beds have now been cleared of kale and sprouts stalks in readiness for the onions and root veg.<\/p>\n The barrow loads of pernicious scutch grass and buttercup<\/a> wont be heading for the regular compost bins <\/a>(don’t want them multiplying in there) but to the big heap in the corner of the garden.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n It was lovely to get some help from our nine-year old too. She was looking for a job so I suggested she plant the garlic<\/a>.<\/p>\n She read the packet, split the bulbs, spaced all the cloves ready for planting and marked the rows. She then exclaimed “when I grow up mammy, I’m going to marry a man who’ll grow our vegetables for us”<\/em>\u00a0slightly puzzled at her ‘traditionalist’ outlook I ask her “why wont you grow them all yourself”<\/em>, “oh I’ll be busy doing something worthwhile, like rescuing wild animals or dogs tied to posts”<\/em> she replied… hmm, not sure what to make of that!<\/p>\n