Garden

Potatoes are very happy though they need more soil.

Peppers (sweet and hot) and aubergines are very slug-eaten, but still growing. The peppers have got flowers on now so hopefully there will be actual fruits. Aubergines, can't tell.

Sweetcorn in the front might actually make corn! Amazing. Butternut squash is going rather slowly, it should be trying to take over the whole front garden and this is not what is happening, I'm confused. I'll give it more time and see what happens though. Soya beans completely decimated by slugs. Damn slugs.

My tomatoes and physalis did get a little carried away with the whole 'transpiration' thing - should have watered them a little more I think. Never mind; I think they'll live, and at least they don't have blight which would ruin the entire crop.

I've now taken off the badly-affected leaves (and many of the others, too; tomatoes do not need as many leaves as they produce, and having too many increases risk of blight) and given them a drink; I'm going to take the one in the hanging basket (meant to be a tumbling type, but so far it is doing no tumbling at all - I am confused!) down and soak it in a bowl of water as that's particularly tricky to water, and get water bottles stuck in the soil to get at the roots of the raised bed tomatoes a little more easily.

I have a volunteer potato plant. Would anyone like it? I don't want it in that bed, and I already have my own stack. It looks healthy enough. If you are coming to help with clothing clearance anyway, I have loads of pots and we could put it in one for you easily enough.
( I think it's time for a gardening project day sometime soon... anyone free Saturday? )

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This is not a company, this is a COUNTRY. You cannot run it for minimum expenditure and expect it to be a good place to live.
-feanelwa

Well said, I say.