Well I decided to have a look at my vegetable garden a few weeks ago after a month off to study. However the only thing I found was a weed patch.My bush beans had been eaten by the slugs as had the Boer pumpkin I had planted. The spinach was looking very weedy and my onions had disappeared under a blanket of grass. The only thing that has done reasonably well are the pea and we have had some very tasty steamed peas on a few occasions.

I decided to dig up my Epicure Tatties, (the local potato variety) , only to find that each plant only had about 2 decent sizes potatoes on them and some of them had started to rot. So after 15 minutes digging I was highly distressed and gave up for the night. I am still trying to decide what the problem is, if the summer has just been to cold and wet, If I planted them to early or if I am just a really terrible gardener. Anyway, as soon as I am feeling less depressed about the whole thing I might try to find the onions under the grass blanket, but I fear I have lost them forever!