/ck/ - Food & Cooking

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There is a south faced wall at the side of my house that has sunlight almost the entire day. The enclosed space is protected from the wind by a dense 2m high hedge of beeches and has a fishpond in it. Additionally the brick wall also has a respectable thermal mass. An ideal micro-climate for lots of plants to grow in, were it not for the poor sandy soil, devoid of nutrients and structure.

Past weekend at the gardening center, whilst I was there to buy flower bulbs for my mom, I spotted some nice blackberry plants. They have deviously organised their infrastructure in a way that you have to pass through their outside plant-section before you can actually enter their indoor store. I'm pretty happy they have an automated door, because most of the time my hands are full before I get to it, juggling around plants. Luckily I forgot my wallet in the car this time, and I only had enough cash on me to buy the one plant besides the bulbs.

Motivated by my purchase I decided to mend the aforementioned soil that afternoon. I managed to throw my back out in the process, to the amusement of my onlooking cats, who used me as a pillow to sit on while I laid there on the lawn, writhing, waiting for the worst pain to pass. Some ibuprofens later I was able to finish the job. If this plant doesn't make it through the winter to produce the best tasting berries in the future, then I'm switching from agnosticism to atheism.