Quick....hide the veg !

We went shopping the other day to the supermarket, and my wife bought some carrots, parsnips and a swede to make a stew later in the week. Now is it just me, or does every allotment holder find it an affront to their dignity to have to buy veg.

I have to admit to defeat sometimes in my endeavour to be self sufficient in vegetables, take the carrots for example, those damn carrot fly have certainly got the upper hand this year. I tried telling her that the ones I brought home would be perfectly alright with the maggoty parts cut away. Her reply was unprintable, suffice it to say that what she suggested I did with them, would have been quite painful! So we have been buying them in for a quite while now.


Unfortunately, it’s a similar story with the swedes and parsnips. The swedes (Best of All) and that’s a joke, just seemed to stop growing and didn’t fatten up at all, whilst the parsnips forked so much they resembled something from outer space.

So, suitably disgraced, I reluctantly put them all into the shopping trolley, and quickly covered them up with other items in case we bumped into anyone from down at the allotments.