Dont know about anyone else but I am FED UP with all this rain. its doing it now as i type this. I know we need it but its starting to get ridiculous now. Must we have it all at once?
I have go tots to do in the garden, but when the rain stops its still all soggy and horrible out there. My soil isnt that heavy but it soon turns to mud if you walk on it or try to dig it too much. However with the jobs i have to do (planting out for next year) I cant really wait for it to dry out. I have to risk it.
I keep reading and being told autumn is the best time to plant because the soil is nicely 'warm and moist'. Warm it may be - as indicated by continued growth and flowering of mant plants in the garden - but 'moist' it most definetly aint! Sodden is more bl***y like it! Soil eh? If it aint wet its cold, if it aint cold its bone dry. Cant win. I blame Global Warming.
Like i say, just have to 'wing it' i guess. So no change there then!
Oh you might be wondering about the 'snails' bit in the topic title. Well this is simple. I am plagued with the little blighters. They must have had a realy good breeding session at the end of the summer, because it allmost as if its been raining snails instead of water. Move a pot, shift a compost bag lift a seed tray and guaranteed there will be a colony of them hiding away there. Of course once found they dont live long, but if what i have found so far is representative of the population, then there is a helluva lot more hiding away that I havent found yet. They lurk poised to come out and eat all my plants next spring! >:( >:( >:(
