Gardening Leave

This is the point when I ask myself why I’m going away. By the time I get back, despite enlisting friends to keep an eye on things, I’m sure the plants will have behaved like teenagers in their parents absence and gone a bit wild. I have moved most of the seedlings to a table in a shady spot where I think they will  survive best during my absence, whatever the weather.  We are harvesting a great crop of peas and broadbeans – they are particularly delicious mixed with samphire which has just come into season at the local fish shop.