Look at that face. Ignoring the fact that Ruby cat appears to be licking her own nose clean (ok is licking her own nose clean) you would not immediately think that you were staring into the face of destruction. But contrary to appearances this is the face of single handed carrot destruction. Every carrot sown has been carefully entombed in a mountain of soil so that the poor seedlings have no hope of finding the sunlight. I can almost imagine her doing it and carefully wiping her paws to maintain their pristine snowiness.
That aside the garden is thriving but very little is ready to eat. A friend joked that she heard we had gone self sufficient. This would be true if we were living off salad. Eldest daughter's plot is dedicated to salad items with a pansy border for show. Beautiful and edible. The salad leaves are going great guns and are so far the only crop which is really producing. Eldest (or the Salad Queen as she will henceforth be known) is very keen to make a sandwich from her stuff (which includes some cucumbers in the conservatory). We are a bit concerned about the cucumbers as according the packet if they become stressed they will produce male flowers. We have been working very hard at keeping them relaxed and have particularly prevented them watching the T.V. pictures of wholesale cucumber destruction in Spain following the German e-coli outbreak.
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