21.5 c in the garden and it is only 9am-surely a record for Hutton even in 'Flaming June'-a complete contrast to yesterday while Britain 'sweltered' (The Sun) we shivered in an East Wind Haar. With good timing we have just received our tickets for the Hutton and Paxton Horticultural Society 99th Annual Show. The wife did particularily well last year although some of the winning exhibits were wrongly attributed by the broadsheet press to Huttonian whose tomatoes suffered from the usual discrimination by the Judges but no matter they are looking good this year and I suspect we will have a record crop, again, from our 16 plants shooting up in the newly painted green house. A pity that the show, becuse of its timing in mid-August has no entries for soft fruit (apart from jams in the 'industrial section') otherwise we get a whole lot more Red Cards for our crop. Anyhow morale is high amongst the garden staff and we should have some good news to support come August. If it is a blazing summer the competition will be stiffer-it has to be admitted that last year entries were at a record low but the wife will maintain that detracts nothing from the quality of her produce. Amen to that

Hutton Haiku No the Next


Tomatoes are not
the only fruit we grow but
the slugs don’t know that.
Fortunately.

R.Mossom. Flor 2003.
  ¶ 5:19 PM