After the Show!

Well, here we are again. The East Anglian Game and Country Fair is over for another year and some in our party have even got over the hangover caused by a certain 50th Birthday Party! A good time was had by all and much shopping and hat-purchasing was done.




So, it's back to the hard work and watering on the plot. Everything seems to be growing quite well considering the lack of rain (never thought I'd hear myself say that!) and only one of the courgette plants bit the dust over the weekend. We think (that is Our Local Expert) that it might have a virus; so it had to be burned and replaced with a whole new one.




We seem to have been very successful with the ordinary red tomatoes, and the yellow ones all germinated and grew into fine plants. However, the cherry ones and the beefsteak ones haven't grown for so long I think they have each shucked their mortal coil and gone to the great seedtray in the sky, leaving only a mere husk. Sad, but true.




We have had a major bit of work done today on the blinkin' septic tank soakaway - oh, you folks with mains drainage don't know you're born - including, in the end, two diggers and three men at a time. That's two to watch and make helpful noises and the expert driving the diggers.

Oh, and the smell wasn't very nice either!

The piggies are growing by the day and now consume as much stuff as we can carry out there. Over the next few days their out-grown enclosure is going to be enlarged so they can destroy another large patch of grass! Of course, they pay for this by fertilizing everywhere they go and making the soil rich and tasty for new plants next spring - we hope.