2 September 2006

Raise the song of harvest home!

When I was a child (yes, that long ago), my favourite hymns at school were the ones we sang for harvest festival – ‘We plough the fields and scatter’, ‘Come, ye thankful people, come’ and – well, can anyone remember any others? ‘Come, ye thankful people, come’ has some particularly nice chord progressions as well as great words. I always thought I would like it sung at my funeral.

I was a rather odd child.

Anyway, I found myself humming it again today when we ventured down the plot to bring in the potatoes and pick a few bits and pieces. It turns out that in the week since we were last there our beans and courgettes have gone crazy so we got more than we bargained for. We also dug up about half of our stash of potatoes before the driving rain sent us dripping home.

So, from top to bottom that’s

• 2kg small white potatoes (apologies, notes not to hand re. potato names)

• 8.5kg large white potatoes

• 4.5kg red potatoes

• 2kg blauhilde and neckar gold beans

• 3.5kg assorted courgettes (I’ve definitely got over my previous failures in that department)

We will, of course, be having a wonderful time of freezing and storing so that our harvest lasts us. Even so, there will be far too much for the two of us so we now also get to have the fun of giving food away to our friends.

This is not as altruistic as it sounds. I have debts to pay and I want them to help us out again next year too…

Filed under: Harvest — Clare @ 6:18 pm