Stalin and brown onions
It occurred to me the other day that one of my friends shares a first name with Stalin. Oh what that must be like. Surely you would just constantly have to answer questions about how that feels and whether you share a great aunt with the man. In any event this occurrence marks the perfect time to introduce the first post in the ‘before and after’ series (where you see a picture of something in its current state now, and then wait eagerly for the time when you can see the same thing in its future state, which you will have to wait for because the future cannot be rushed):
the brown onion patch:
We have been having a firm spring, meaning a steady interchange of rain and sun. Here is hoping these brown onion plants will like that as much as Stalin liked his wine.
Staying with a theme of planned economies, below Idefix is modelling a combination of corn, scarlet runner beans and yellow dwarf beans. The plan is that the runner beans grow up the corn and the three plants support each other perfectly in a mutually beneficial system of sharing and caring. You will want to know if this works, because now that Grimes is reading the Communist Manifesto, anything could happen. Maybe even the end of neoliberalism. Maybe. Watch this space.