GROWING THE GARDEN

It is hard work clearing the brambles!
Here is a wheelbarrow of clods and couch grass dug from a square metre of earth, a pile of 20 or so bramble roots excavated from the ground and a square metre of cleared earth. It is slow and the weather is hot and steamy. We aren't winning but as long as we attack them every day we don't lose the battle either.
The slugs are a pestilence. There are large orange and red ones, medium slim grey ones, small white ones, and the regular brownish ones too. I have a slugicide award and carry a slug killer in the form of a sharp knife with me in the garden every day.

The garden has a deep and reasonably loamy soil over clay and is moastly well-drained so plants grow easily and well even when the weather is not sunny.

FOOTNOTE
though we now have internet we are having troublle uploading. I will make another attempt at the next opportunity.