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Finally one if the figs managed to swell, the first one this year and the first of a decent size ever! A bit dry (the draught?) but very tasty… The courgettes are blossoming and so, it seems, are the tomatoes. All the salad seedlings have however succumbed to slugs, and I am at risk of…

I have not written for a while, because I am not going to the allotment that often, because I have so many things to do at home and tiredness has started to catch up with me. The last time I went, though, there were a few bean pods that I should probably be able to…

Finally the time has come when my chillies have put out the first bloom (which I read I should pluck out but have not dared yet). They are everywhere in the greenhouse, under cover outside, on the windowsill at home: will I manage to be self-sufficient? In the meantime, salad and courgettes are filling my…

… as my precious rhododendron turns out to be after all a weed – how could I fall for it? My horticulture text says some plants look different in their juvenile form from their mature one… the thing is that a juvenile plant would not flower and my seedlings has blossomed, shouting weed, weed! Hope…