We had
dreams of a productive garden this year, but seem to be suffering the
challenges that many gardeners in this country currently are. Whilst
it's reassuring that it's not just us, it's worrying in terms of our
future; if, as many say, the difficulties in growing and the boom in
slugs is due to the wet, changeable weather - and climate change is
likely to bring us more similar summers – growing food here is
going to be a challenge longterm. And when the oil runs out then
importing is hardly going to be the answer.
Slug
munched veggies (and, on the left, the slug who I caught redhanded. Oh how my vegetarian, pacifist principles have been pushed!) The runner beans were our 3rd planting of
that crop; the other 2 hadn't even germinated.
Struggling
cherry tree (possibly due to ants).
Decimated
dianthus flowers....
and
others that started to open but then died when still in bud.
But
there are some fruits! (Plus loads of juicy tayberries I didn't photograph - and a few strawberries. Yum yum yum!)
To be
fair, it could be said that nurturing energies have been been centred
on another direction as well this year...
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