−50%The Allotment at the End of August: Marrows, neighbours, and the bench under the plum tree
Harriet Combe · narrated by Agnes Loch
2026
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You settle onto the bench beneath the plum tree, where late summer light falls through leaves just beginning to turn. Agnes Loch reads in a voice that matches the pace of a warm afternoon: unhurried, observant, quietly amused. You will learn the patience of marrows swelling on the vine, the small negotiations between neighbouring plots, and the particular comfort of a shed at four o'clock when the day begins to soften. Harriet Combe writes the allotment as a place of small rituals and steady growth, where soil holds memory and bending to weed becomes its own kind of resilience. The sound is intimate, close, like conversation through a garden hedge. Come and sit a while; the plums are nearly ready.
18 chapters
- 1The Door Opens2m
- 2Chapter 1: The Bench Under the Plum Tree17m
- 3Chapter 2: What the Marrows Know17m
- 4Chapter 3: The Soil Remembers21m
- 5Chapter 4: Bending and Not Breaking14m
- 6Chapter 5: The Neighbour's Rhubarb Cure20m
- 7Chapter 6: Walking the Longest Row22m
- 8Chapter 7: The Shed at Four O'Clock18m
- 9Chapter 8: Apple Cider Vinegar and Other Conversations23m
- 10Chapter 9: The Weight of the Basket20m
- 11Chapter 10: Vegetable Glycerin and the Last of the Herbs20m
- 12Chapter 11: The Company of Slow Hands16m
- 13Chapter 12: A Small Plan for September21m
- 14Chapter 13: The Routine of Return18m
- 15Chapter 14: When to Knock on the Neighbour's Door25m
- 16Closing Up5m
- 17About the Author1m
- 18From My Shelf to Yours1m
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