It's been a few days since my last post and since then we have had lots more rain but also some glorious sunshine over the weekend. That mixture of moisture and warmth has meant that all the plants are growing rapidly, well, apart from those that got eaten by the slugs :-( I have only two out of my seven broad bean plants left and the Valmaine lettuce has not even made it further than germination before they got snuffled. The only way to protect the plants and the pumpkins I am planning to plant out soon is to get a great big cloche or some netting to cover everything. Very frustrating but not at all unexpected! At least the spuds, onions and garlic are still going strong as are the plants growing indoors...luckily, the slugs haven't found a way yet to break into the house and let's hope they don't! ;-)
We took the dog for a lovely walk up Cefn Bryn yesterday - it's probably one of the most stunning places on earth and really not far from where we are. The photo doesn't do the view justice but you can see that the wild ponies were enjoying it as much as we were...
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| Wild ponies at Cefn Bryn... |
