Shopping, Tomatoes x 2 tubs and a Kleingarten.

Kleingarten

A quiet day today, as I go singing on a Thursday evening and have to save my strength!  I did some shopping, I needed more tomatoes, because after the "Great Tomato Scare," I have to catch up on a month without fresh salad.  I was buying tinned tomatoes and adding them to pasta for what was a cooked salad!   I walked to Weststadt, about 1.5 miles, bought a few bits and then came back on the bus.  I have a senior's travel pass, so have unlimited travel on the buses and trams, although it costs me £42 per month.  There's no free transport here for the pensioners, shame.

These two photos show a "Kleingarten" a little garden, like our allotments,  where flat dwellers who have no garden can rent/buy a plot of land,  build a summerhouse, sit on a lawn and grow vegetables and fruit.  There are "Kleingaerten" everywhere, and I assume it's a nationwide scheme.    It would be a sensible extension to our big city allotments, providing a place for children who live in highrise flats, a chance to experience a green garden and have a patch of land for themselves. 

I remember as a child being given a book by my mother entitled,  "A Garden for my Child."  A lovely title and one I have never forgotten.  The book showed how to make a little garden for a child, what seeds to grow and what little garden tools to buy.  The illustrations were drawn in black and white and it was an enchanting little book,  circ. 1954, a long time ago.   I can remember stroking its beige cover with brown lettering.

Kleingaerten in Weststadt.