Harvest time.

This has been a strange year in our garden with many plants of all kinds lost to slugs and snails. We had an almost complete mange tout crop failure and the first French bean seedlings disappeared as they began to grow. The second seedlings were nursed as they appeared and although some of the base leaves were munched we managed to keep them going and enjoyed plenty of beans, with enough to share with our young friends. The plan had been to deliver tomato plants to their respective gardens but that didn’t happen, so we had more tomatoes, both in the greenhouse and outside, than we’ve ever had before! The results have been overwhelming…so bags of Gardeners Delight have been distributed, soup has been made and some have gone into the freezer for winter casseroles. Cucumbers have gone crazy and are still growing, as are the peppers. As for the slugs… they are still here and giving me grief, hiding in the compost heap and under any leaf I turn over. They are all shapes and sizes, there has to be a foolproof way of getting rid of them…don’t say throwing them over the fence though 😉