Plot 29 by Allan Jenkins

Author:Allan Jenkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2017-02-07T16:00:00+00:00

NOVEMBER 30. A sunny Sunday afternoon, strangely mild at 12°C. The sky is clear, the brightest blue, squirrels are performing circus tricks, leaping from skinny branch to branch. The mustards are flowering yellow, wild Tuscan calendula, too. The Castelfranco chicory is firm and flecked with red. The jagged hedge of puntarelle is still standing tall. I wish I knew what to do with it – make risotto maybe. I am jet-lagged from Australia, gathering winter salad in a daze. The late radishes are crisp and hot so I share them with Mary, Annie and Ruth. As usual, they are the only people here. Howard arrives. He hoes. We have both walked over the heath and enthuse about the leaves on the beech. There is yet to be a frost. Mary’s garlic and broad beans are bright yellow-green with life. I wonder if it is too late for ours. Annie is frying sausages on her new plot and invites us for hot dogs. There is red wine in tin cups and a chocolate bar for pudding. The women talk about growing food, late autumn, sickness. Mary says the allotment is healing her, I say I feel it too. We share the last sausages. We empty the wine, I bask in the last of the sun and their company.

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