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Article: A glut can be berry nice indeed . . .
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- August 27, 2009
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. . . but, while late summer is a time of plenty in the garden,
the profusion presents some problems, even for gluttons
WHEN IT COMES to growing your own fruit and vegetables, it very
often seems to be a case of feast or famine, of either too much or
too little, too many or too few.
And so it can sometimes feel like gardeners have no sooner
finished complaining about "the hungry gap" of spring than they've
started sighing about the "glut" of late summer.
A glut, the dictionary tells us, is a supply of something that's
much greater than what's needed or wanted. This explains why we
urban farmers only use the word in reference to certain crops and
not others - you never, for example, hear ...