We need all the support we can get
7:20am Thursday 9th September 2010 in
WHEN famer Rowie Meers needed something to help support her galia melons while they were growing, she found the answer was right under her nose.
Rowie, of Purton House Organics, realised the answer to the problem was bras and has been asking her female customers to send in their unwanted brassieres this summer.
The 45-year-old found the melons were hanging too low and needed something to hoist them up when she started growing them earlier this year.
“We had such a fantastic crop of galia melons and I was struggling to stop them swinging too low. We needed something to suspend them,” she said.
“My eureka moment came as I looked down – the answer was under my nose. I thought ‘Let’s use bras because they suspend my melons very well so let’s use them for this.’”
Rowie now uses around 40 bras to suspend the fruits and said everyone has been very supportive.
“My customers got involved and we’ve probably got enough now,” she said.
”We appreciate their support in more ways than one. A size D cup bra is probably the best size.”
Rowie has been running the farm for 18 years. She tried growing melons 10 years ago without much success and decided to give it another go after her apprentice suggested it.
She heard about using the underwear a few years ago but dismissed the idea.
“Someone said it a long time ago and I thought it was a bit of a joke,” she said.
The farm has been selling the melons in fruit boxes and plans to do it again next year with both galias and watermelons.
“This is run by women and we want women working on their own and that’s something else we’re trying to push,” she said.
Purton House Organics produces more than 250 vegetable boxes and 60 fruit boxes a week, as well as monthly meat boxes.
Visitors can see the suspended melons at an open day on Saturday.
There will also be a farm tour, mini farmers’ market, bouncy castle, and hot food, teas, coffees and cakes, and guests will get the chance to meet the alpacas, chickens, cows, calves and Bully the bull.
The day runs from 11am until 4pm. For more information visit www.purtonhouseorganics.co.uk.
Comments(17)
Tony Hillier
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9:43am Thu 9 Sep 10
saying No to Tits Up
Purton Organic Triumphs
bouncy castles promised
this week-end
Al Paca lot in Saturday
umm...five a day
low hanging
but not swinging too low
Galia Melons
well hung fruits of labour
Mr Blackwell
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9:44am Thu 9 Sep 10
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(I thought I'd get in before Politicrat)
Mr Blackwell
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9:46am Thu 9 Sep 10
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Oh, sh!t, what do you mean it *is* your day job...
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(That was a poem, by the way, see how it rhymes and that?)
mrsdoubtfire
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9:52am Thu 9 Sep 10
Advocatus Diaboli
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10:54am Thu 9 Sep 10
dosomework
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12:14pm Thu 9 Sep 10
llduce
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12:42pm Thu 9 Sep 10
Nice melons love...
reality_check
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12:55pm Thu 9 Sep 10
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@tony hillier; bloody rubbish as usual. Please desist.
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@Mr B; much better. Good work.
Smokin Joe
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3:41pm Thu 9 Sep 10
Try to have your writing make sense.
If you're going to reference Keats, at least get it right - its 'season', not 'seasons'. And "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" is iambic pentameter with a trochaic substitution of the first iamb, whereas "D seasons of mists and MelonGalia" ...isn't. Personally if I was referencing another poem I would at least try to get the scansion right, but maybe that's just me. And what are "D Seasons" anyway? My guess is it's supposed to be a play on 'D-cup', but it still doesn't make sense. Also, "Melon Galia" is the sort of inversion typical of amateurs who think that you can somehow do away with the normal rules of expression when you're writing poetry. You can't. It's "Galia Melon" or nothing, I'm afraid. Moreover, you've only inverted the phrase to try to get it to scan, but it's futile because of the extra D you've added to the beginning of the sentence. Plus why are the 'D Seasons' saying 'no to Tits Up'? What on earth does that mean? And no, it's not up to me as a reader to make sense of it. It's up to you as the poet to express yourself clearly.
That's just the first two lines. Shall I go on?
Tony Hillier
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6:38pm Thu 9 Sep 10
You are right on all counts.
I'd love to read any works you choose to publish this way.
Yes, I claim it is poetry, (certainly uses some tecniques of the genre) but I don't wish to don't place it on a pedistal - I was moved to share, as you were with your response.
Cheers
Tony
This is the electronic Adver "comments" page and I beliive we and the other posters are using it as such
Smokin Joe
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8:50pm Thu 9 Sep 10
Tony Hillier
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10:01pm Thu 9 Sep 10
Last Thurs of each month 6-10 - Lower Shaw Farm, West Swindon
An informal Writers' Cafe.
You would be made most welcome.
reality_check
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10:20pm Thu 9 Sep 10
SpeakUp
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1:51am Fri 10 Sep 10
@Tony Hillier - same to you, sir. Graciously accepted - well done!
sharppractice
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4:05pm Fri 10 Sep 10
Not melons the size of cup D
There'd be room for some aid
From a modest old maid
Who aspired, once, to something like B!
Tony Hillier
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5:47pm Fri 10 Sep 10
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