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In an English textbook garden

20 June 2009

I think that a number of my vegetables have got hold of my gardening book at some point. They’ve read it and paid particular attention to the “Troubles” section. Mmm, they thought to themselves, in what clichéd way could we be slightly annoying now? We’re not growing all that fast and that’s already ticking off Little Miss Impatient. Let’s see if we can also throw in a few things from the book…

Mangold Fly

Mangold fly – Leaf miner – set up home in a few leaves of my beetroot plants. Those leaves have now been removed, staining my thumbnail pink.

Red spider mite

The blotches on my aubergine leaves were caused by exactly what the book said – red spider mites. You may consider those mites found and smeared into the ground.

Sun scald

My cucumber plant didn’t choose a high enough SPF and got scalded by the sun.

Sun scald

As did a few tomato leaves here and there. Because why come up with something new if you can just copy what the cucumber did?

Slug damage

Oh, ok, this tomato got a bit more inventive. Its top was bitten clean off by an idiot slug in the night and now it’s growing a new bit.

Stoopid vegetables.

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