I’m not happy about my seedlings; something is eating them. To date I have lost all the chicory, bar one, most of my calendula, one or two nasturtiums have ragged leaves, some of the French beans, and a few mangetout. Whatever is doing it is just nibbling at the leaves as they emerge, I think it could be ants; we have an awful lot here. What we don’t have is earthworms; we haven’t seen a single one even though we’ve done masses of digging, perhaps it’s too dry.
The pool was much warmer today, but it still did a good job of cooling us down. We’re a bit worried that it might develop a puncture, as it’s straight onto the bare soil (with stones in); so we’re thinking of getting some sand to put under it, we can level it at the same time.
We haven’t been doing nearly as much work as we were when we were travelling to the quinta from the campsite; but that’s mainly down to the heat, it’s warm by 9.00 in the morning and it doesn’t start to cool down until 8.00 in the evening.
Tonight I planted out the cucumber plants and French beans that I started in trays; hopefully if they are already established they’ll be able to survive whatever is eating the seedlings.
We’re eating our own peaches now – the bloody magpies decided they were ripe and started pecking at them! They’re a little bit harder than I would normally eat them, but they have a lovely sweet flavour.
We've had to prop the branches to stop them from snapping under the weight of all the fruit!
Tonight we went out with a torch, when it was really dark, to see if we could see what was munching on the seedlings, but nothing was obvious.
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