Agreed!
Not only that, gardeners in different parts of the country seem to have enjoyed very different conditions. I am in the East Midlands and to be honest it has been a very good growing season in this locality.
A few negatives, some cold spells in spring, more slugs about than usual, and some potato blight that reduced the yield from my second earlies. But otherwise a good few positives too. Once things warmed up, enough sunshine with no prolonged drought, and I have been lucky to get good crops of sweet corn, roots of all sorts, beans of all sorts, onions garlic and shallots, squashes, cape gooseberries, and even a few cucumbers.
But this season what has been really really wierd, in my view, has been the astonishing absence of blackfly. None to be seen anywhere hereabouts for most of the season. And to see those very early tender shoots on broad beans completely free of this pest was quite astonishing.
Indeed it was only a week or so back I saw a small patch on some runner beans. So my first sighting of blackfly was late August! How is that for wierd?
