An Inventory
As an exercise
I think to list all of the things growing on my plot, beginning with the plants I have grown myself (planted or sown from seed):
a bed of wild garlic
cucumbers for pickling
climbing / "French" (actually an Italian variety) beans
1 courgette plant
a jospa-berry
broad beans of two kinds (a regular variety that has been in since autumn and requires poles and string to keep from falling over, and a dwarf variety that does not)
nasturtiums among them supposedly to attract the blackfly away
garlic
a single large cardoon plant, left over from when I grew a row to harvest as an annual
a bed of asparagus, yet to produce more than two spears at once
first early potatoes
white onions and red onions
Oregano, mallow, lovage, red-veined sorrel sharing a bed
Giant dill from seeds a friend gave me
another courgette plant not long for this world
agretti
a dwarf fig I am growing for its leaves and its scent
a dogwood I put in to patch a hole in the hedge
and just gone in some seeds of wild fennel and of cucuzza, the serpent-squash of Sicily
