Kitchen Garden Forum

Well, we had a very successful Village Show on Saturday - lots of entries, lots of visitors and I also won quite a few (non-cash) prizes. But my highlight was meeting Catherine from Clitheroe! Just think, she now is a real person to me rather than just a name on the forum! I understand she and her family also enjoyed the Show, so maybe we could make it an annual northern meeting point for 'KG forumers'? How about it, Geoff? I think you are the next nearest to us.

Catherine was surprised at the number of my potatoes from the one potato planted in a 9 inch pot, but I planted it in half potting compost and half well-rotted manure and then fed it regularly throughout the growing period. And we have certainly been spared blight in this area this year on both potatoes and tomatoes, so that was lucky.

Possibly but this Saturday was Bentham Show and my wife was judging the crafts so I got free entry, coffee and lunch (it is the first time but you get the impression it could be a job for life). Many years since I've been to an agricultural show, the sheep were amazing but I couldn't say the same for the vegetables.

Dear Monika, glad you a good Village show, and well done for winning the prizes.

Pleased to read you got to meet Catherine, did Catherine look as you had imagined?

Hi Monika, well done, sounds like you all had an enjoyable day.
How many potatoes?

Well done on your efforts Monika. And how nice to meet a fellow forum member. It must be an interesting experience to meet somebody you've had a "virtual" acquaintance with. We all build up imagies in our minds of what somebody is like and in reality they are usually completely different.

I seem to remember reading that Margaret Grenfell, the famous actress, had a pen friend for over 20 years but always refused the opportunity to meet up with her because she couldn't risk having the mental photograph of the image she'd built up of her penfriend destroyed.