Cauliflowers fluffy and cabbages green...

Strawberries sweeter than any I've seen.
Beetroot purple and onions white,
All grow steadily day and night.

The apples are ripe and the plums are red,
The broadbeans are sleeping in their blankety bed.

BLACKBERRIES are juicy and rhubarb sour,
Marrows fattening hour by hour.
Gooseberries hairy and lettuces fat,
Radishes round and runner beans flat.

The apples are ripe and the plums are red,
The broadbeans are sleeping in their blankety bed.


Was always my favourite harvest hymn at school at this time of year...


After a four and a half hour expedition today, came home with a bowl brimming with juicy blackberries, as well as purple hands covered in thorn scratches and stinging nettle stings! Now to decide what to do with my juicy harvest!!

(The four and half hours included a long lazy pub lunch in the sun by the river! Well, I'd worked very hard!!)