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Anna
Pavord: The New Kitchen Garden [Der
neue Küchengarten]PEACHES
& NECTARINES
Prunus
persica & Prunus
persica var. nectarina
MOST ACCOUNTS
OF GROWING PEACHES AND NECTARINES in cool climates
concentrate on the disasters,
not the delights. By the time you have read through gloomy predictions
of leaf curl, canker, red spider mite and peach mildew, you may want to
give up all idea of growing your own and let the growers of California
and Spain take the strain instead. Forget peach mildew; it may never
happen. Remember instead Mme Recamier, siren, muse and toast of the
salons of 19th-century Paris. When she and all those around her thought
she was on her death bed, when for days she had refused all food
however cunningly prepared, it was the smell and taste of a freshly
picked peach that persuaded her she would, after all, prefer to live.
Courtesey of Dorling
Kindersley
AN
ALCOHOLIC HEDGE
FOR
TAKING AWAY the backs of your knees, there is nothing like a slug of
sloe gin. In country areas, sloes are a common component of
mixed
hedgerows, but there is no reason why they should not be planted in
town. They could be part of an alcoholic hedge, mixed with elder for
champagne and wine, cherry plums to make into liqueur, and hazelnuts to
nibble along with your drink. Sloes are the fruit of the blackthorn,
whose spiny shoots make a hedge that neither animals nor vandals can
push through. The wood is dark, a counterfoil to the wreaths of white
blossom that cover it in spring before the leaves come out. Elder grows
so easily it is practically a weed, but if you prune out the oldest
growths each year it can be kept within bounds. You can make champagne
from the flat creamy flowerheads that appear in early summer; the
berries, in early autumn, provide a second excuse for a binge. The
cherry plum, or myroblan, has fruit twice the size of sloes and half as
bitter, too fiddly for pies but good for liqueur or wine, which becomes
more like port the longer you keep it. Hazels will bear decorative
catkins as well as providing nuts. Once the hedge is fairly well
established, you could add to its wine-making potential by planting
blackberries at intervals, then training and tying in the shoots.
Publisher's note
"Anna is a well known author and a contributing gardening
writer to
Country Life, Country Living, Elle Decoration, The
Independent and The
Observer. She is also an associate editor and regular writer
for
Gardens Illustrated and sought- after speaker on the
gardening lecture
circuit in the UK and US. Her previous DK gardening titles
include The
Border Book, New Kitchen Garden and the highly acclaimed bestseller
The
Tulip. Anna lives in West Dorset."
~Other
home &
garden or cookery books I translated include
De
mooiste terrasplanten
Barbecue:
240 Recipes
by
Christine France
Simple
Country
Style (alternative
title:
Classic Country Style)
by
Mary Trewby and Jocasta Innes
Design
+ text: Christiane Bergfeld, Hamburg. All rights reserved.
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27 September 2009
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