{"id":11661,"date":"2016-02-05T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=11337"},"modified":"2016-02-05T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T06:00:18","slug":"friday-5th-february-2016-if-at-first-you-dont-succeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/02\/05\/friday-5th-february-2016-if-at-first-you-dont-succeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday 5th February 2016 – If at first you don’t succeed…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wilma – ready to spring into action… or not!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The thing with our Mistress is that she doesn\u2019t know when to quit. Last year her pumpkin patch was doing well, until Aristotle ran through it and damaged all the bits that were trailing from the planters, killing them all. Then there was the year she grew cauliflower and broccoli, and they were all eaten by the caterpillars. There weren\u2019t many peas and they didn\u2019t taste great. The fennel did ok, but no one but our Mistress would eat it. That would be enough to put most people off, but now she\u2019s off again. She is focussing on the positives. The carrots haven\u2019t been too bad and we all like those and she can grow fairly spectacular parsnips so I\u2019m guessing they are easy! Oh I forgot her attempt at sweet potatoes, which might have worked if we\u2019d lived a couple of hundred miles further south. This year, the carrot beds have been moved to where she hopes they will get more sunlight and been given better soil. The parsnip bed is ready for planting and she\u2019s branching out (if you\u2019ll pardon the pun) into potatoes, which she doesn\u2019t really eat many of. She grows everything organically, which is why it\u2019s a bit more hit and miss\u2026 or in her case miss and miss. Stage one of the exercise is complete, or it would be if she hadn\u2019t run out of compost! She needs some more for the potatoes. Next week she needs to move on to stage two \u2013 which is the first of the planting. We don\u2019t really mind as we get to spend time outside \u2018helping\u2019 her, although I use that term loosely. I seem to trip her up, Wilma plays in the soil and Ari stands on two legs so he can eat anything interesting that we can\u2019t reach. Only Shadow potters off by herself not getting in the way.<\/p>\n

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