Spring Shoots & Green Peas the Wordsworths & their kitchen garden. 

Dorothy Wordsworth's engaging Grasmere Journal often incorporates a garden diary, this is especially true during the Wordsworths' first summer at Dove Cottage. Most entries concern the elaborate growing of garden peas 'in succession', which was to become a demanding but rewarding process. My post for the The Romanticism blog  is  rather different from the usual garden and poetry piece.

 
Dorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere and Alfoxdon Journals. ed. Pamela Woof, OUP 2002.



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Banner image: John Constable, Golding Constable's kitchen garden,  c. 1815, detail, Christchurch Mansion, Wikimedia Commons