Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories

Sorrel? (szczaw)

Nope. This weed I mean is more popular. Practically everybody eats it.

Dill?

Sorry, no. Dill isn`t treated as weed here. If I find a wild shoot of dill in potato or corn patch, I let it grow.

Hint: I remove this weed to avoid problems with the law.

Dandelion (mlecz)

Hogweed? There was one type that was once used to make barszcz? There is also one that causes severe burns and is invasive.

No. That burning barszcz is a weed but not food.

Hint No 3: it is an ingredient in food often served during popular holidays in Poland like Christmas or Easter. But if you like it, you can eat it any day.

Poppy seed?

Fek!!! Yes!!!! At last. :):)

In the field, wild poppies can be rampant weed which comes from nowhere. If there are too many, you can be accused of growing them in order to produce Polish heroin. If not to produce, then for sale. I have to avoid such accusations and even slightest suspicion, that is why I remove them as first.

Each morning when I go the fields to work, I can hear a hollow noise which comes from my neighbours` fields. Two objects hitting each other. Bang! Bang! Bang! every 3,4 seconds. It isn`t irritating coz comes from a distance..

It also takes place in the afternoon.
What can it be???

A motor from the well pumping water?or a scarecrow with bells or something like that?

Sorry, no.
Hint - it is not a machinery sound. It isn`t produced by metal objects, it is hollow as I said. That is why bells are excluded too.

Your neighbors are knockin' boots?

Don't complain... love is in the air!

Nope. Nothing connected with it.
Hint - it is a noise produced by people working in the fields, without machinery. They make it by hittng one object against each other. The other object is hollow inside, hence the hollow sound.

Another hint - they make it cos they are careless. If they cared, they could carry it out without making such loud sounds.

One riddle pending, another is looming on the horizon:
what is the veg which I sow in my patches as the last in the sowing season? I mean mid July.

Carrots?

Sorry, no, although it is possible. Carrots take a long time to grow, about 4 months, I sowed them in late April.

But you are close - I meant root veg.

Beetroot?

Not too many to choose from then! Radish, parsnips?

Cargo, not beetroot. I sowed last beetroots in early July as a form of experiment coz it is a bit late.


Yes! But not popular red and white radish which you imagine. Which one, then?

PS. Hint for the hollow banging noise in the field - it is made during harvest. What exactly? I first heard it about 3 weeks ago and it still continues in the morning and afternoon..

Black?


Wheat, corn? Scythes knocking together? Seems a bit antiquated these days though.

I suggest it's the farmer, knocking together the heads of incalcitrant farm labourers.

Yes! Murzynka.


Nope, I said it is a hollow sound while metal makes clanking noise. Not wheat or other grains coz I said it has lasted for 3 weeks, while a combine harvester deals with crops in 1 hectar in 30 minutes.

Hint - it is veg harvest.


:):) Sorry, no, none of my neighbours employs workers, the family does the job. Except adult children who refuse to work in the fields. They prefer cleaner jobs.

I was thinking of long wooden handles knocking together. Wooden handled shovels, forks? Not hoes or rakes. Could be anything.

You know it is so hard to get those carrots.I have been searching for them to make a Indian drink for years.All you can find is there seeds and I am not into gardening anyway.Also they are really not black more like purple.Another one is sugar cane in Poland,I love sugar cane juice and can only find it at Indian and Chinese stores back in States but never could in Poland.

Kanji. Apparently a good substitute for them is normal carrots and beetroots in a 3:2 ratio.


We're talking about radishes though, not carrots.

Yup,thats it.


Nope,doesnt taste like it should be.


Sorry,didnt pay attention.

Nope. I mentioned veg harvest. It means that one of the objects which produce the hollow sound is veg. What kind and what does it hit?


I saw it only once a few years ago here. .I had tried it in the US but wasn`t fascinated. No tradition for it in Poland.

Digging out potatos?

Nope. Potato harvest wouldn`t last for weeks - it is a matter of a day or two.
BTW, what is the second object in that duo I mentioned?