Sharing time on the allotment just goes to prove that the family that sows together grows together
It is May, my daughter Kala’s birthday month. Time also to top-up pots and window boxes. Time to find room for another climbing rose. The rituals of our year.
I have been busy gathering seed for Kala’s summer. A bit manically, of course. This year’s new obsession is zinnias, an old-school garden flower, bright and beautiful. There are multiple packets of cosmos in almost every colour. There are new poppies, though last year’s have burst through already, plus the seed we saved. And always nasturtiums, sunflowers, too, and various calendula; it wouldn’t be our family without them.
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