I got 3d a row ... and very long they were too ... sorry if it’s a bit repetitive but it was a brilliant way to learn to identify a large proportion of our annual weeds. 🙂
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm obviously new here. I hadn't seen a mention of sugar beet fields before. No one tells me anything.
mutter.
I get that persicaria all over the place in my garden. It's one of the easier ones to a - recognise and b - hoik out if it's in the wrong place. Never found it bothersome, although it is quite widespread
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I'm obviously new here. I hadn't seen a mention of sugar beet fields before. No one tells me anything.
mutter.
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Prevented me from having a mis-spent youth @raisingirl .... straight into the fields after school until tea-time and back out there after tea (high farm tea of course) until bedtime ... when I first started we had to have a very sharp hoe 'cos we had to single the beet as well as hoe out the weeds and then a few weeks later we'd go over the field again just hoeing the weeds ... then 'monogerm' seeds were introduced and singling wasn't needed and the fields just got hoed once ... now there's a machine for doing that and the rural youth are allowed to get bored without getting blisters on their hands ......
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Or go to a gym (costly) to get a work out they could have had and earned 3d a row! Personally I think you were underpaid - I used to get 1d for every yellow dandelion head in the bucket
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
I thought I was underpaid too, but Ma promised me that I wasn't ... I did the same job as the men at half their rate ... apparently that was fair .... back pre The Flood
I think I'm a wee bit older than you @herbaceous ... you could get two barley sugar twists for 3d in those days
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Ooh, barley sugar twists! I have many memories of those lovely jars re-appearing after sweet rationing ended - corner shop opposite the school took no time at all to fill a whole shelf once it became a regular stop. Picked up by Granddad, Mum wouldn't have let me anywhere near, now yearning for a rhubarb and custard or some aniseed balls.
PS Over 27, but not counting
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
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One person went to hoe, went to hoe a meadow
One person with a keen eye, went to hoe a meadow.........
Oh dear, I must be happy again today,
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
mutter.
I get that persicaria all over the place in my garden. It's one of the easier ones to a - recognise and b - hoik out if it's in the wrong place. Never found it bothersome, although it is quite widespread
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think I'm a wee bit older than you @herbaceous ... you could get two barley sugar twists for 3d in those days
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
PS Over 27, but not counting
Hmmm we're probably around the same age then ... but as you say, not counting ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.