Grow your own veg.
There’s a great ‘green’ activity. Apparently it reduces food miles (whatever they are) and of course is beneficial to everyone’s health. Eating veg is healthy, but eating it straight from your garden must be the ultimate. We’ve just supplied a installed a whole load of stone items for a restoration project in Lincolnshire. A spiral stone staircase, a couple of stunning stone fireplaces, some mullions for an old stable block, and some new cappings for the entrance gate piers and wall. The place will be breathtaking when it is finished, but what was wonderful, was the already restored kitchen garden. The owner must have had incredibly ‘green’ fingers, or just been very experienced because everything growing in there looked like prize winning examples. Beautiful vegetables of every type imagineable, and not a weed in sight. Everything was organic too, so the weed control must all be hard labour rather than Roundup!
Just looking at these rows of tasty salad leafs; radishes; rocket and potatoes made the mouth water, and gave one the urge to try and do the same. My own experience having previously been to plant a load of seeds, then go back 3 weeks later to find they’re swamped by weeds and then giving up at that stage!
Maybe I should just stick to the stone fireplace biz, and leave the gardening to those that know what they’re doing!