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Ciao all,
just back from Sorrento in Italy, where me 'n' better-half went on holiday. Lots of fantastic walking up in the hills, swimming and sunbathing, food, beer; was marvellous. The walking was especially good for its garden-spotting potential. The Itallians are so lucky with the sunshine over there. Walked through olive groves with some harvesting going on (spent a happy few minutes watching a pair of locals shake and beat an old olive tree so the ripe olives dropped into a net rigged up underneath it), admired lemon trees loaded with fruit, ate some ripe figs straight from a tree where it overhung the path! Even the weeds are better that ours - they have fennel growing wild everywhere!
But am home now and have just been to check out my plot:
Lettuce and purple sprouting bocolli seedlings - eaten
Chineese cabbage and bok choi - 50% missing in action
Sweetcorn and tomatoes - not ripe
Runner beans - gone to seed
Xmas spuds - failed to germinate
Pear tree - rust
Apple tree - wasps
...and I swear I can see my tan fading already.
It's good to be back
just back from Sorrento in Italy, where me 'n' better-half went on holiday. Lots of fantastic walking up in the hills, swimming and sunbathing, food, beer; was marvellous. The walking was especially good for its garden-spotting potential. The Itallians are so lucky with the sunshine over there. Walked through olive groves with some harvesting going on (spent a happy few minutes watching a pair of locals shake and beat an old olive tree so the ripe olives dropped into a net rigged up underneath it), admired lemon trees loaded with fruit, ate some ripe figs straight from a tree where it overhung the path! Even the weeds are better that ours - they have fennel growing wild everywhere!
But am home now and have just been to check out my plot:
Lettuce and purple sprouting bocolli seedlings - eaten
Chineese cabbage and bok choi - 50% missing in action
Sweetcorn and tomatoes - not ripe
Runner beans - gone to seed
Xmas spuds - failed to germinate
Pear tree - rust
Apple tree - wasps
...and I swear I can see my tan fading already.
It's good to be back
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