flying snails

when i said before i went away that i would like it to rain so that my plants wouldn't die, i forgot to say "and you can stop once i get home". weeks of torrential rain are keeping everything lovely and green but making it hard to get anything done. the pond got full almost to overflowing..............and the gastropods are in heaven. they've climbed right up the Bishop of Llandaff dahlia ignoring all the leaves to eat the nice juicy bit just below the flower head............and we can forget the green beans i think. but the star had to be the one that came in and was found halfway up the stairs.........having left a cute little trail of slime on the stair carpet............there are two in the kitchen this morning so i guess they really are coming in through the cat-door. they must be quite strong to be able to push it open, so i suppose dahlia stem must have the same effect as spinach. or maybe the electric shocks from the anti-slug tape are having an ECT-like effect and making them feel so good that they can barge through the cat-door and climb the stairs no problem. i'm not quite sure what they think they're going to do when they get upstairs but i suppose they can always start on the houseplants.
............one anemone almost out. i cut the last organic rose for Nan when she was round for dinner...we're kind of between roses at the moment because the orange one isn't quite out yet, in fact a few things have finished so there's a flower-free gap, apart from the diascia still blooming away madly. the lavenders are out and have grown really well, that bed will look good in a couple of years. the comfrey feed looks more like a midgie breeding station and has probably got a bit diluted by all the rain so there may not be many vitamins in it...........
.........one tomato almost ripe!.........oh the excitement. i'm not quite sure what haute cuisine i can produce with one tomato the size of a marble but i'm sure i'll think of something.......