I wish it was with fairy magic!
It appears that not even Mini Magpie's magic, dressed in her over-sized wellington boots and tatty, "I not want new wings mummy", could help "Magpie's Patch" this year.
The weather has put an end to everything I have tried to grow in my new veg patch. Which is why I have had nothing to report of late. I was so excited at the beginning of this year with all the seedlings that what grew.
I had high hopes for my new patch but with lingering frost in April, scorching sunshine and all the rain we've had, I just lost my battle to grow my own : (
I seemed to have reared slugs and snails, no puppy dog tails but an abundance of earwigs instead. I've never seen so many!!! Arrrggghhhhh!! They have all munched their way through my potato leaves, which was all I had left. I've never really thought I had a phobia of any creepy crawlies, but until now, I had forgotten just how much earwigs freak me out!!
My 'Marto Pants' (MM's name for tomato plants) grown from scratch at the beginning of the year never materialised for me and every time I planted out the courgettes I'd grown from seed, they would disappear quicker than I could plant them again. It was like the scene out of Wallace and Gromit 'The Curse of the Were Rabbit' where all the carrots kept disappearing. I would come out the next day and POOF!! GONE!! Curse you slugs!!!
Still I live and learn.
I've written it all down on paper and I'm hoping that my little helper can wave her magic watering can (it's almost as big as her, so I'm hoping it holds a lot of magic) and put a plan in place for next years crop.
Fingers crossed!! xx
Hello, thank you for your lovely comment over at my blog. It's lovely to meet you. I also have had no luck in the garden! I have planted up my vegetable patch twice, I'm not really an experienced grower! and nothing has appeared! I'm thinking I will cover the whole patch in netting next year perhaps, or camp out next to it! Heather x
ReplyDeleteHeather I think camping out may be my only option ha-ha! It's all a learning curve for me, I'm still really new at it all, we'll just have to tell ourselves we will have success this time next year! Have a great week x
DeleteLovely photos! My gardens the same. Too many slimy creatures and too much rain!
ReplyDeleteVictoria xx
Thanks Victoria, congratulations on your creative blog award too. Very well deserved. Have a great week x
DeleteLove your photos of your little sweetpea and her golden curly locks, they made me smile. So cute!! It's been a bad year for the slugs and snails etc, however the runner beans I planted in a pot very late on are flowering like crazy, so I'm hoping for yummy beans soon!:)
ReplyDeleteHey Julie, thank you and fingers crossed for your runners. I'm hoping to put some sort of action plan in place for operation veg patch : revenge on the slimy ones and try again before the year is out. Hopefully lady luck will shine or fairy magic will work. Have a great week x
DeleteI love those wings and what a fabulous little fairy helper you have there.
ReplyDeleteHappy weekend
Nina x
Thanks Nina! Hope you have a great week x
DeleteThe importance of not having new wings should not be underestimated, only when you've properly worn a pair in can you really harness the magic ;)
ReplyDeleteBetter luck with the marto pants et al next year :)
I'm keeping everything crossed Annie. Have a great week x
ReplyDeletePst! Don't tell anyone, but you have the most cute fairy in your yard! I am sad the plants didn't turned out great. Would you like to have a little greenhouse in your kitchen? that is the present I'll give to my mom for her birthday, she loves them, and it is a way of having plants growing up a little :)
ReplyDeleteAnd don't worry, I am sure you'll have fresh tomato's next year;)
Adorable! I love little girls in wings. So cute. Can't wait till my little princess is old enough to walk around in wellies & wings! x
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