I got all my seeds out at the weekend and put them on the dining table. I've got 2 packets of Uchiki Kuri Squash and 4 packets of beetroot to add to the 2 half packets left from this year
I never have enough time or space for all the veg I would love to grow and always have more seed packets than I should...
Am I looking here at someone who has taken the first small step on the road to recovery?
Acknowledging the problem; the addiction. Facing up to it ... confessing to the forum.
Now open those beetroot packets. Empty them into a pile, and
count the seeds.
Imagine those seven hundred and forty eight beetroot plants, each six inches from the other, in serried rows, stretching to the horizon.
"But I'm not going to sow them all!", you cry.
Then why did you buy them?
Because of the
catalogue pictures..
Those ruby-red, perfectly circular, flawless beetroot sirens!
Get Thee Behind Me, Boltardy!
Calculate how many beetroot you actually eat over summer. About thirty ...
It's not going to be easy, but bin those surplus packets!
Remember last year? The horror of your neighbours, as you trooped up their paths yet again, arms full of beetroot and courgettes.*
" Mum! It's the beetroot woman again!" " Pretend we're not in..kids, get behind the sofa!"
You've taken the first vital step.
Don't weaken now.
* See my recent SAA article:
Excess Courgettes - The Modern Plague