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This above all; to thine own self be true. 
William Shakespeare

There is peace of mind in a garden

The calmness and satisfaction gained from Natural  Growth

GOOSEBERRY SAW-FLY and MOULD~24th June 2015

24/6/2015

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 A great start to the day today, I got to the allotment a bit later than usual. The weather was brilliant, warm and dry and ideal for gardening. My first job as ever was to harvest the goodies that are ready to eat. I picked a whole punnet of wonderful succulent red coloured gooseberries. I have been quite lucky really as the gooseberry saw fly that started to strip the leaves off my bushes, suddenly stopped eating them. I was advised to spray the bushes but I decided to ignore that advice and leave them alone. It's surreal to see the leafless bushes with fruit hanging from totally stripped branches. My luck continued to hold out as a friend pointed out that there was some goosberry mildew on a couple of bushes at the edge of the bed. Fortunately that never went any further and I was able to get away with that as well. The goosberry crop is beautiful, I like my variety of gooseberry bushes as they have a very faint appetising trace of the colour red and they always taste as good as they look. 
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  I continued to weed around the courgettes at the top end of the plot, I must admit that area is looking very good now. 
 Then a woman's voice halloed me and asked if I could direct her to plot 34, I wasn't sure where that was and I asked her who owns the plot?
  'Chris,' She replied!
 Then I remembered that my friend Chris had said he would be going away on a a cruise, and I directed her to his plot.

I looked up from my work a little while later and noticed her on the wrong plot merrily picking someone else's strawberries. I rushed over to stop her......
 'Hey! You are picking fruit on the wrong plot!' I exclaimed. 
 'I thought you said his plot went right to the road,' replied my new friend, 'I thought it was a massive plot' she smiled. 'I have picked these already.'
 I said 'Don't worry, they will never be noticed, but we don't want you to get into trouble. Do we?'
 I then re-directed her to the right allotment and I carried on working on my courgette beds. 
I finished hoeing over the beds and I then began to clear up the tools ready to go home. I noticed a pair of magpies pecking around the open space next to the plot, they seemed to be carelessly very close to me, this is very unusual as they are normally very shy birds. 
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    John~~Battling with the elements, pests and diseases in my struggle to keep the garden growing. A constant  daily struggle that will be recorded here.

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    Gardening is such a delightful pastime. I spend time on my allotment almost every day of my life, and the sensation of pure satisfaction never ceases to amaze me. I get so much out of this pleasure, I think the benefits are so huge that the government should legislate and make it more available to everyone. I will list just some of the obvious reasons here. ~~
    1) Fresh fruit and vegetables and other produce. 
    2) Fresh air and an intense feeling of getting close to Nature. 
    3) Healthy exercise without the necessity of machines that are found inside a gym. 
    4) The satisfaction obtained by growing plants and watching and caring for them through to maturity. 
    5) A regular occupation that you can make into a routine, somewhere to go to at a certain time every day. 
    6) The companionship of like-minded people, with whom you can get ideas and swap tips on your mutual interests.


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