What Sam and Iris Are Actually Planning (Whether I Like It or Not)
I usually write these posts as the one steering the ship. But this week, on the walk back from the plot, Sara turned to me and said, "You know, you talk an awful lot about what you're growing. What about what those two are growing?" And she's right. Sam and Iris put in as many hours up there as I do, sometimes more, and they've both got very firm opinions about what should be going in the ground next. So this week, I'm stepping back a bit and letting my co-stars take the wheel. Mind you, "letting" them is a generous word for what actually happened, because there wasn't much letting involved. There was more of a hostile takeover. The Great Winter Bed Debate It started, as most of our disagreements do, over a cup of tea and a scrap of paper. I'd sketched out a rough plan for the winter beds — nothing fancy, just my usual system of rotating the brassicas away from where the onions had been, tucking the garlic in where the beans had finished...
