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<\/a>Lovely Lettuce<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>More red coloured luttuce<\/p><\/div>\n
The weird blue things in the soil are organic slug pellets. I hate slugs and snails. Even the ones with the cute dark spirals are their shells. They’re evil and munch away on things before I’ve had chance to have a taste myself.<\/p>\n
This is the second batch grown in this self watering windowbox (it has a reservoir for water). The first lot were eaten all except for one seedling which after careful nurturing I discovered to be a weed. That really sucked but, it’s a hazard of gardening when you’re growing something new and don’t know what it looks like when it’s a young plant.<\/p>\n
Basil – I started off with 23, count ’em, 23, basil seedlings. I now have 10 left. Damn slugs. <\/p>\n
<\/a>Hopes this grows fast - I want pesto!<\/p><\/div>\n
My cauliflowers have been hit hard by aphids \ud83d\ude41 I sprayed them with a soapy solution but it’s not helped. <\/p>\n
<\/a>Poor cauli<\/p><\/div>\n
My corn is the strongest looking plant so far. <\/p>\n
<\/a>The hardiest of my three corn plants<\/p><\/div>\n
I really want it to succeed. Even one ear of corn would be great, so fingers crossed. <\/p>\n
Poor pumpkin. It’s been hit by aphids too. I’m not sure if I can rescue it.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Struggling pumpkin<\/p><\/div>\n
This summer squash isn’t looking too bad but I’m still concerned about the aphids.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Healthyish squash<\/p><\/div>\n
Another pest that I have to deal with, albeit a cute one, is Emma. She likes lying in the raised bed. As a result I lost some carrots. I went a bit overboard while sowing replacements and now the raised bed is full of little yellow carrot seedlings. I hope some of them survive. I have another self watering tub and am thinking of transferring some of them to that. <\/p>\n
I also have some pepper seedlings <\/p>\n
<\/a>Pepper seedling<\/p><\/div>\n