Kitchen Garden

ON THE PLOT WITH THE 3 Mudketeers

WE WANT WORKERS, NOT SHIRKERS!

Well, it’s after 10am and the Muddies are nowhere in sight. It was agreed yesterday that they would turn up today at 9am and get stuck in pronto! The plot needs a good spring clean – there’s pots to be washed, greenhouse glass to be hosed down and polytunnel plastic to be cleaned. I wonder what excuses this year?

Things like: “I had to

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