<h4>You're browser does not support iFrames - here is an exerpt of the content</h4> <a href="http://nipitinthebud.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/goosegogs/">Click here to read the article in full</a> <p><a href="http://nipitinthebud.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/4-6-10_gooseberry-for-banner1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3592" title="4-6-10_gooseberry for banner" src="http://nipitinthebud.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/4-6-10_gooseberry-for-banner1.jpg?w=455&h=341" alt="" width="455" height="341" /></a>Green’s my favourite colour so I’m quite taken with my new gooseberry header. Not least because the gooseberry bush is a new addition to my plot this year thanks to dear old <a href="http://nipitinthebud.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/henleys-fabulous-flowers/" >Henley</a>. Now that Henley can’t manage his plot <a href="http://nipitinthebud.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/daves-purple-sprouting/" >Dave</a> has taken it over, but not before he was instructed to ‘<em>make sure </em><em>that nice young girl down the end gets my wheelbarrow’. <span style="font-style:normal;">I was grinning from ear to ear as I wheeled it to it’s new home on my patch </span><span style="font-style:normal;">and continued to smile as I pondered where but on an allotment site a 35 year old would be considered to be so youthful! I also wonder how I ever managed without a wheelbarrow all these years.<a href="http://nipitinthebud.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/18-7-10_wheelbarrow-4b.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3613" title="18-7-10_wheelbarrow 4B" src="http://nipitinthebud.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/18-7-10_wheelbarrow-4b.jpg?w=455&h=358" alt="" width="455" height="358" /><span style="color:#000000;"><em></em></span></a></span></em></p> <p><em><span style="font-style:normal;"><a href="http://nipitinthebud.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/18-7-10_wheelbarrow-4b.jpg"><span style="color:#000000;"><em><span style="font-style:normal;">Green in June and ruby red by July I let the birds have the handful of ripened gooseberries this year. I won’t be so generous next year when I hope to have enough goosegogs to try these mouthwatering recipes for jam, cake and ice-cream – </span></em><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jun/13/nigel-slater-recipes-strawberry-elderflower-sorbet-gooseberry-jam" >strawberry and gooseberry jam</a>, <a href="http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/10879/gooseberry-and-almond-streusel-squares" >gooseberry and almond streudel squares</a>, <a href="http://www.nordljus.co.uk/en/gooseberry-and-elderflower-ice-cream" >gooseberry and elderflower ice cream</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/recipes/5886321/Mackerel-with-gooseberry-thyme-and-Pernod.html" >mackerel with gooseberry and thyme.</a></span></a></span></em><a href="http://nipitinthebud.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/4-6-10_gooseberry-4b.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3594" title="4-6-10_gooseberry 4B" src="http://nipitinthebud.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/4-6-10_gooseberry-4b.jpg?w=455&h=418" alt="" width="455" height="418" /></a></p> <br />Filed under: <a href='http://nipitinthebud.wordpress.com/category/allotment-tales/'>allotment tales</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/nipitinthebud.wordpress.com/3587/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/nipitinthebud.wordpress.com/3587/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/nipitinthebud.wordpress.com/3587/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/nipitinthebud.wordpress.com/3587/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/nipitinthebud.wordpress.com/3587/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/nipitinthebud.wordpress.com/3587/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/nipitinthebud.wordpress.com/3587/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/nipitinthebud.wordpress.com/3587/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/nipitinthebud.wordpress.com/3587/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/nipitinthebud.wordpress.com/3587/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/nipitinthebud.wordpress.com/3587/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/nipitinthebud.wordpress.com/3587/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/nipitinthebud.wordpress.com/3587/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/nipitinthebud.wordpress.com/3587/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nipitinthebud.wordpress.com&blog=8362095&post=3587&subd=nipitinthebud&ref=&feed=1" />
