I'm off to bed now grumpy old woman that I am. Today and all week in fact has been like the midst of winter. It has been cold, dark, wet, windy and miserable. I am not worried about my runner beans being eaten by slugs and snails anymore as there aren't any runner beans left.
I've been trying to harden off my Pumpkins before planting out and one of them just snapped in the wind. I was collecting slugs and snails from the greenhouse and as I prised a snail off the inside of the roof it came crashing down and landed straight on my little boy's watermelon plant and chopped a chunk off. I've had a rotten cold and chesty cough for a fortnight now and it is not getting any better.
If I had to rely on self-sufficiency alone I would never survive as all the plants I grow get eaten! Well, enough moaning for now, I'm off to lie in a darkened room. Will somebody wake me up when it is spring?
