Sunflowers

This what my sunflowers turned out to look like. Not too shabby considering the snail problems they've had.
They botanically minded among you may spot the sweetcorn. We had our first four cobs last night. I fear they may be the last as the weather here is useless. Wet and cold, I had to check the date to make sure it wasn't autumn.

Trouble

The fact that Cat thought the flower bed could be his new loo was bad news. But not as bad news as the slugs and snails. Of the 18 sunflowers planted out only 12 are still standing. This is war. No more Mrs nice Yoastie. This year there will be no beer for the slugs to slowly and merrily drown in. This year it is slug pellets.

Garden

They have spent long enough in the greenhouse. It is time to let them out in the wild.
This is what the flower/vegetable patch looks like all freshly dug and planted.




This is what I hope it will look like.


This will probably not happen as someone really likes the fact that we loosened the soil for him.

Harvest

Our first batch of strawberries are now ripe. Well when I say batch I mean five. But the girls and I had great fun looking over all the plants to see if we could find berries that were ready to eat. We managed to find a family. They were played with for a while but all strawberries met with the same fate.