Well December's here already!

The garden is still looking green and lush from all the rain we've had lately. Fortunately yesterday was a perfect day for a garden party for a garden club I belong to. I was freaking out last week because the lawns were desperate for a cut and the rain kept on and on.........

The roses are having a break mostly, getting ready for their Christmas flush. Blackspot, dieback and powdery mildew are thriving of course!

The tomatoes are going nuts, I decided not to trim the side shoots off in the beginning but now I'm thinking I should have done - it's a jungle there!

I have caterpillars in my strawberries :( :( . I sprayed them with Dipel last week but they're still destroying foliage and getting into the fruit. I'll pull all the pots out and examine them closely tomorrow and keep them away from the undamaged ones.

The cherries are looking very tempting now, bright red and shiny! The birds share my admiration of course and have been getting the ones near the edge of the netting.

My next job will be to harvest the garlic so that I can plant the blackcurrants, whitecurrants and redcurrants. Oh, and the Pepino.