All the crops are ripening on the allotments with some gluts (particularly courgettes)! Yesterday we went blackberry picking on the waste ground behind the allotments. It reminded me of this song my daughter sang at primary school at harvest time.
Cauliflowers fluffy and cabbages green,
Strawberries sweeter than any I’ve seen
Beetroot purple and onions white,
All grow steadily day and night
The apples are ripe, the plums are red,
Broad beans are sleeping in a blankety bed
Blackberries juicy and rhubarb sour,
Marrows that are fattening hour by hour.
Gooseberries hairy and lettuces fat
Radishes round and runner beans flat
The apples are ripe, the plums are red,
Broad beans are sleeping in a blankety bed
Orangey carrots and turnips cream,
Reddening tomatoes that used to be green,
Brown potatoes in little heaps,
Down in the darkness where the celery sleeps
The apples are ripe, the plums are red,
Broad beans are sleeping in a blankety bed
I defy you not to sing this when you’re next harvesting your crops!
Posted by Lin
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