A trugful of vegetables.

An American blogger asked me what a trug is . Sussex trugs are long shallow baskets made from honeyed chestnut and cricket bat willow . They have been made in Sussex since the 1500s . My boy ’ s lovely spouse gave me one for my natal day a year or two ago . It is beautifully craft and I was delighted with it but not sure what to apply it for . But I was flatter that she imagined I was the form of person who use a trug . Most citizenry ’ s thought of a trug is something that is bear by a madam in a beautiful , floaty garb as she strolls round her garden pass on orders to her team of gardeners and picking flowers for the house . I don ’ t have a single nurseryman to give order to and my strawman is well spiffed up than I am . I don ’ t have the good clothes to carry a trug unless I am going out somewhere . And then I can ’ t take my trug . It would bet silly . On the other hired hand I am off to a garden company this afternoon .

Off to a garden party with my trug .

But now since I have my lovely fat lasagne vegetable beds I have a economic consumption for my trug at last . I have been harvesting potatoes for some prison term and my marvellous chef , aka the Pianist , groan when I come in each day with yet more courgettes . To be comely I have been make for him courgettes every day for over a calendar week .

Off to a garden party with my trug.

Yesterday , I thought I would surprise him with a lovely selection of summer vegetables and I fetch them in to him in my trug . I nigh put on a floaty garb for the social occasion but it was a bit chilly yesterday . Ok , there were the inevitable courgettes and potatoes but I also brought him carrots , lose it peas , french bean , broad noggin and rainbow chard . I think he was impressed , except for the carrots . He inquire why they were so short and stumpy . I decided to grow round ones this year . My lasagne bed are deep but I didn ’ t look for the soil to settle before set . I think there might not be enough depth for prospicient one so I grow ‘ French market place ’ . They are round with a superb flavour . They are quick to mature too .

I am delighted with my vegetables and my trug but there is a trouble with my fresh planted asparagus . It had been growing well up until a couple of week ago when I noticed that a lot of it was look straw- like . On investigation I encounter raft of nasty brown grubs pasture on it and some spotted beetles . I ’m sorry I have n’t got a photograph of a mallet at the moment . They are as cunning as lily beetles and as presently as they become mindful of your presence they accrue onto their backbone in the soil and they are then insufferable to spot . If they were n’t so destructive you would opine they were quite pretty , with a distinctive smuggled and ointment checker board figure . They see a bit like elongated ladybirds .

On the bottom of the fronds were little dustup of midget black eggs . The egg come out to have been stuck on with superglue and were very difficult to get off .

Off to a garden party with my trug.

I looked it up and chance that I had asparagus beetle : Crioceris asparagi . I had never heard of it and didn ’ MT know there was such a matter . I would love to pick up if anyone else has it and what they do . I go out each Clarence Day and squash the eats and beetles but I am upset about my poor asparagus plant and whether they will survive . fortuitously I have plenty of exercise in squashing beetles and I have learnt not to be squeamish as I nonchalantly squish lily beetle every sidereal day from the spring onwards . Now I have to do asparagus ace too and the nasty slug- like larvae . Actually they have petty wooden leg if you worry to look cautiously which I don ’ t. Sometimes being a gardener means you have to do revolting things . kill thing with your unembellished hand is one of them . Sorry this is out of direction but you get the idea . If you produce asparagus you might desire to contain it out . But permit ’s not dwell on these horrors , because although my asparagus see awed and is cover with these disgusting things , the courgettes are doing well develop with the perfumed corn industrial plant . I am delighted with the snap peas which we tasted for the first time last nighttime . The snail shells seem to have worked very well as a monition because they are unscathed . The french bean leaves are irresistible to slug and I have had to sow several deal to get my noggin . But although the leaf are nibbled I have green edible bean and also ‘ over-embellished tepee ’ which I love . They are so tasty and tender too . The runner beans have not been set on and they are full of heyday .

The bumble bees love the flowers . I had to do several sowings of broad bean because the slugs or something have intercourse the immature plants . But they are doing nicely now . I just picked a few because they are still quite humble . All in all , I think the chef was pleased with his trugful of veggie .

49 Responses toA trugful of vegetables.

Your vegetable garden looks good , despite the encroachment of insect piranha . Your beans are clearly much further along than mine . I did n’t sleep together what you mean by courgettes until I looked up the term this morning – I should n’t have been surprised that they ’re what we call zucchini , as those are notorious among gardeners here ( and my married man , the syndicate cook ) for producing an endless provision of garden truck . I did know what a trug is , though ! I trust you enjoy your garden party !

I had to laugh softly about the description of a someone who would use a trug , and then seeing the photo of you all garb up and ready to go with your trug . It fathom like a useful little carrier , and well - made , too . Your garden is very productive . revel the harvest !

What a wonderful veg bounty ! I ’m a fan of trugs too and always opine myself in that floaty dress meandering around the garden . In reality , I ’m in sloughy jeans and a battered t - shirt ! I ’ve never heard of the Asparagus beetle either , but Lilly Beetles I ’m very intimate with . At first I used to exit them be as they were so pretty , now they get splosh at the first opportunity ! Glad to have find your blog .

Off to a garden party with my trug.

Off to a garden party with my trug.

Paula@SpoonsnSpades

A trugful of vegetables.