Let’s get the bad news out of the way; the harvest of crops has been
very poor this year, with even the sunflowers disappointed. I don’t think it
helped being away for a couple of weeks and no-one watering the garden.
I have harvested absolutely nothing from the broad bean plants,
tomatoes or cauliflowers. Next year I might just concentrate on fewer plants,
probably just tomatoes, broad beans and sunflowers.
The birds have made use of the few sunflowers that flowered well, and
they are now returning to the garden in bigger numbers after the summer moult.
Indeed a large flock of house sparrows is roosting in the ivy and other
climbing wall plants that cover a small section of the house, but most of next
door’s front facing wall.
I don’t know if any other small birds are in the same roost yet, but
perhaps this will become a regular haunt for them, as long as next door don’t
chop it all down!
Young robins, some with red breast feather emerging, blue tits, great
tits and dunnocks are all now coming back in to the garden, although blackbird
visits are few and far between.
There does seem to be a number of big slugs that venture in the garden
on damp nights, some much bigger than I ever thought they would get.
I presume these are some of the new type of slugs being found in
increasing numbers in the UK, so I’m hoping some hungry hedgehogs are close by.
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