Kitchen Garden Forum

Just been out watering my veg, and noticed that the soil is absolutely seething with ants, mostly winged ants. Almost very single bit of the garden.
I've had enough trouble already this year with ants 'farming' the aphids on all my fruit bushes and other crops, and generally disturbing newly-emerged seedlings, so i hope all this lot are about to fly away to pastures new!

They might be little, but they certainly can be very annoying and do a lot of damage.....

Lots of ants here too this year, even one nest in the dwarf peach tree pot farming the scale insects which are also a major problem to remove.

Goodness, Peter, how did that happen?

I hope nobody was hurt peter

I take it this is disgusting rugby club vandalism - bring back burning at the stake!

I laughed Tiger. There always seems to be a courgette in everybody's harvest photo!

I have some nice top tassels appearing on my sweet corn plants. As I'm short of space they,re planted in two adjacent rows which is the nearest I could get to planting in a block system and it,s quite interesting to see the extent to which the front row of the two have blocked the light out from the back row and how much more advanced they seem to be.

Peter, just seen your Fire photos. This is terrible. Presumably arson and vandalism and not an accident. I do hope they catch those responsible.

Arson is the suspected cause, bar hasn't been in operation since May, no booze on board, everything switched off.
It's been burgled before several times and we haven't bothered with repairing the lock to avoid more damage being caused before the burglars realise there's nothing worth stealing in it.

Wow! Why? Who?

I share your angst peter - wonton vandalism! Obviously people who didn't care or understand - younger members of our society without values or a decent upbringing based on respect!

Now overrun with cucumbers, twenty of the blighters!

Not a nice day today raining most of the time but it is needed ,windy and cool funny thing is we never got a yellow warning

Another deluge here tonight as well! Looks like weeding will be high on the agenda for the next week or so!

But the positive - the proper veg plants also happy & producing!