kitchen garden

this year's kitchen garden will comprise of ticking-over camarosa strawberries, parsley, curry, rosemary and thyme. and if the wee birdies who always eat my coriander shoots leave them well alone this time, some cilantro. into the soil has also gone: radish, shiso, capucine and courgette seeds. who knows if they will even sprout. it's averaging mid-20C here. the sowing should really have been done two months ago to make up for the crazy heat that seems to descend in may. while the weather here is excellent for all sorts of crops, is it really sad that all i want is potatoes, peas and strawberries? P's parents are enjoying the fruits of our labour; the asparagus that i impulsively bought one year and dedicated an entire bed to has come into its own. while asparagus here is cheap and plentiful, home-grown is something to be proud of. not to mention that you can harvest them earlier and get less of that awful woodiness. i miss gardening. pots don't quite give me the same hit of getting the fork stuck into some heavy clay, loosening it with the manure cleared out from the shed. is it time to give up science and retire to a smallholding in the boondocks?