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Marsin - glad you enjoyed your first spuds. It sounds as if you are having a better harvest than a lot of us lot this year.

Dave - I have also noticed a drop in the insect population. All insects to be honest, I don't think I have seen a wasp and I have had more bees fly in through the back door than seem to be outside - strange because there were so many about in March when we were actually having better weather. As you say, slugs and snails are everywhere - though the birds love 'em. I have been feeding the birds none stop - all the locals who come everyday but there is definately a drop in the starlings IMO.

I am assuming it is the relentless rain we have had this year that is the reason we aren't seeing them - obviously not sat out as much.

Picked a lot of Blackberries yesterday and froze them as I wasn't in the mood for baking. Good thing about these cultivated ones is that they don't have the thorns that the wild ones do and the fruits are huge.