Vegetable Plotting

I'll tell you what else - my veg plot hasn't performed well this year. I did plum tomatoes which must need more sunshine, because they're still green and small and dithering on the vine. The spinach and beetroot are ok, but the lettuce languished, the carrot crashed and chard choked on itself. One sowing of rocket failed to do what it says on the packet. The outdoor cucumbers never much emerged from the soil. Disaster.

A thing on the radio to-day about GM crops which apparently are being accepted almost world-wide, but not yet in the UK. Some eco-warriors here are losing the plot and resorting to criminal activity to make their point.

I want to know - will the GM modified foodtaste better than the easy on the eye but tasteless stuff the supermarkets churn out at present? If not then what's in it for the consumer? I don't supose for one minute the price will come down. So probably then the farmer, the middle man and the retailer will benefit, but the consumer will get nothing from it. Oh I see - it's yet another plot to rip off the British public!

So much for the gespacho - I'll be doing chutney with this lot!