I am laughing at YOU tarannau - finally understanding maybe the lengths I have gone to to make my garden cat free!
I was honestly waking up in the middle of the night and thinking about it
but it really is fucking INFURIATING when they're damaging your precious plants, eh! Since introducing SPIKEY TWIGS to the bits of string/stake fence tops that were failing, I'm having much, much better success now. No shit for ages and nothing digging up my plants (the strawberries in particular) - hooray!
Anyway - I've been doing loads - some of it flower wise (have new beds too, Boatie - lovely innit!) but also....put one of the courgettes into the bed - got another one waiting to go in and some french beans/beetroot/spinach to sow too but I can't yet because the bloody psb is STILL GOING haha! Put out a winter squash into a huge pot with some vermiculite and normal soil from the bed mixed in as it got very dried out last year when I did them in pure compost (DUR!).
Tied my peas onto canes and put the last two sweetcorn seedlings in.
Strawbs have lots of green fruit on and MY PEACH AND PEAR APPEAR TO BE MAKING FRUIT...WOOHOOOO!!! Noticed the BLOODY ANTS were up to their old aphid antics on the peach...but this time round I know what I'm doing re that (it's great that isn't it? The little moments of 'Oh I know what to do about that *already*!'
) so gave it a soapy soak and rubbed all the aphids off and then stuck some duct tape, inside out, around the base of the tree. I'll be keeping an eye on the squash and courgettes too cos that's where they got em BAD last year.
Best thing this week has been that I ummed and ahhed and then decided to risk leaving all my tomatoes out while we were away Mon-Fri just in case it rained. Of course it didn't AND the night time temps were not as high as tomatoes like either but came back....rushed straight out into the garden....and they were all FINE, along with the pots of herbs, aubergines and peppers that have been out there a while anyway, so good to know I can just leave them out now really.
So now I'm really at a bit of a standstill till I can pull out the PSB and then it'll be action stations again!
Actually I could also do with repotting the toms/aubergines/peppers too......
Nice to see you btw, freespirit! Where's Melinda? And gentlegreen? WHERE ARE YOU?!