As you can imagine, with selling the house and passing on the allotment plot, I haven't done so much gardening this year.  But what I have noticed is a plague of large huge slugs, large snails - and bindweed!

Perhaps it's the  record-breaking spring (May and June were the wettest since records began) - and wet July or perhaps it's because it's so often damp conditions that we actually see them lounging around enjoying themselves.  No cartoon pics here of slugs and snails - as they are definitely not their friends!

The other plague this year has been bindweed (convulvulous) and the pity is that the slugs and snails shun the bindweed in favour of more delicate morsels, like lettuce and hostas.

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See: http://blog.riverford.co.uk/category/pennys-gardening-blog/