Well, last month we discovered the squirrels were framing the gnome. This month we discovered the squirrels themselves were being framed. By whom?
By this little chappie . . .
who I found running along the drive, being stalked by the cat.
Feeling sorry for Moley, I decided to catch him and release him safely out of cat eye-sight in the field, where he quickly disappeared . . .
The next day I found more plants newly uprooted. Being very close to buying a squirrel trap, I investigated further only to find that not only had they been uprooted, but they were sitting on top of freshly dug mounds of soil!!!
That's the last time I feel sorry for a mole!
Anyhow, my plants are beginning to win the battle against goats, sheep, squirrels, moles, slugs and snails and are definitely thriving . . .
Or so I thought . . . There is another obstacle - far more threatening, over which I have even less control - the weather. Not the rain, not the wind, nor the snow. The heat! Now I'm not complaining, but with weeks of VERY hot weather and only about 4 days of rain over the past two months, my plants are wilting and becoming desperate for water.
As we get our water from a mountain spring, we could also potentially be close to having no water. So, should I be using up this water (which also serves two other households) on my plants?
Probably not!
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Incidentally we had a visitor this week from Plymouth who said he didn't know the sea could be so blue, which led me to think if you thought I may have photo-shopped my sea pictures - I haven't!!!
Next blog - Probably a bit more of this & that
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