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Great to hear you are a bit better Mouldy....darn those foxes....but what happened with the air freshened? Did you have some deliberate vandalism? I didn't understand that bit...sorry! Sad about the clem...but Arabella is a really great strong growing one...she'll do the job for you! Welcome back...ok, ok, I'm leaving now.....

Hi Mouldy ..
You've been working hard ..
wishing you good health ... and hoping your plants will thrive despite the slugs and other invaders !

Mouldy I have missed you! glad you are feeling a little better, hope you keep improving, keep taking the pills. lol :O) Loved all the plants, sorry the fox keeps pestering, get a 12 bore that will do the trick lol :O) maybe use it on the flysprayers too :O) lol ONLY KIDDING everyone, do not want to be done for encouraging murder in Glasgow. lol Hope the sun keeps shining on your bit of lovliness. Right exiting the land now - don't get up to too much mischief. :O)

sorry to hear you haven't been well,Mouldy..glad you are on the mend now..your plants are coming on a treat..despite the foxes etc invading your garden..leave them a menu to state what their preferences are...oh .most of them ??..mmm,not good ..anyway,good to see you are staying positive...:o)

Glad your back and feeling a bit better mate, missed your comments, that black grass is a thing of beauty :-) its all looking good mate.. Welcome back

sorry to hear you havent been well ~ and hope you are very soon feeling much better

looks like the plants are feeling ok ~ they have grown loads! especially that honeysuckle ~ its going to be gorgeous!

Thats a nasty thing for someone to do and I can easily see why murder comes to mind, the rest are all coming along very well and hopefully you will be able to keep them, cannot see what satifaction anyone of any age gets from wantonly destroying someone elses work and enjoyment, glad you are feeling better now I wondered where you were, we had a lovely weekend but downhill and very wet since, one is s'posed to be thankful for small mercies Mouldy but Oh Boy this weather is a b....r!!!!!

I,m sorry too that you've been on the sick list all this wet cold weather doesn't do any of us much good!

Can I suggest that you get some dried chilli flakes (ethnic aisle in the supermarket is the cheapest)
then sprinkle it around where the fox goes......use rubber gloves and be careful not to rub your eyes it stings.....
Hopefully it will sting the fox
It certainly stopped the rabbits, don't know about snails but worth a try..... :0)
Birds are immune it seems, I read it first as a squirrel deterrent!

Sorry to hear you haven't been feeling well. I was wondering what had happened as hadn't heard from you for a while and was missing your great blogs. Glad you are on the mend and back with GOY. It's good to see the plants growing, they are looking good. The primula is a little beauty and what a fighter! But I better get orf your land before I outstay my welcome! ;-)

Typical Mouldy...just accidently deleted my response to all your kind comments.
Thank you everyone!!!

The infanticidal neighbour now knows his cards have been marked.
The slugs are lessening each night & the foxes are once, twice at the most, nightly visitors.
I've tried broken eggshells (cadged from the three local cafes) by the hundreds. The slugs don't comply.
I've tried chilli (bought in 3kg bags from Tesco), so the earth was bright red. The foxes don't comply.
I'm gonna try copper on the slugs & persist in chasing the foxes off for their own good.
Too many folk, hereabouts with that KILL-IT mentality. :-(
The doc can't say when this 'bad phase' with my lungs will end.
It's part & parcel of the condition.
However, there is good news...he's recommed me back to the bone-quack to have a knee op, so I'll be able to do the can-can once again. Lol.
Now all we need is sunshine.
Er...did someone remember to pay the bill for last year? ;-)

Sorry you have been ill Mouldy glad to see you back. What on earth happened with the air freshener surely they didn't spray your plants?? All looking great now though. I'll take my leave of you now before you deploy the 12 bore :)

Death by air freshener? I'd have been gutted if someone did that to my plants :o( I hope your others do a bit better!

sorry to hear you haven't been well Mouldy
what's wrong with your neighbour...is he/she a bit cuckoo?
shame on people like that...can't stand to see someone else enjoy something..kind of reminds me of my neighbour :(

Your knee op..... Mouldy doing the can can in a kilt, you better piste some pics :))
Glad your feeling better and yes you were missed!
Why on earth did the neighbour do that to your plants? Is it the same one with the dog poo? Your neighbours are in need of a Glesga Kiss!!!!
That aside, most looking very healthy. Your mystery is another Bleeding Heart. I know cos I had a bit that looked like that! Bury it a bit deeper and it will come away next year, if it stays damp enough you should get foliage this year.
By the way, it wisnae me in yir gairdin Mister, honest!

Glad you are on the up, Mouldy! :-)) It's a crying shame about your poor plants! for the foxes perhaps a deterrent might be some pepper put out just before you turn in for the night on a piece of newspaper or foil or even plastic - obviously it would have to be a night when no rain is forecast. They use their noses like we use our eyes -for getting info on the surrounds. So if they take a whiff of pepper they will know all about it & may steer clear of your garden in the future!

Glad to hear about your knee op & looking forward to seeing pics of you doing the Can-Can in a kilt! LOL! :-D)

Its all the raiding the bins at the curry houses Mouldy.......your foxes have developed a taste for spicy food! Lol x

Hope you keep getting better Mouldy! I'm afraid the cold winds aren't helping our plants this year.
Another bad one like last year, it would seem. that said , I noticed, on the forecasts, while we languished in 12 or 13 C today, you had 20C in Glasgow!

Glad that you are on the mend, M. You've really gone to town with this gardening thing, all those plants & seedlings! They mostly are looking good,& we all lose some one way or another( not usually to an air fresher spray tho'). Did you see them do it? Perhaps they damped off? I collect up all the slugs & snails in my garden & take them to the grass verge by the road. Believe me, they do decrease in number, only little ones that newly hatch are left( tread on these)! Of course this is only possible with our size of gdn.They say that they walk back, but I've never known it happen. Haven't seen an army of snails all marching back to my garden(thank G--)!

Hope you are continuing to feel a bit better, Mouldy. Sorry to hear about your trials and tribulations, but think your plants are mostly coming on a treat. It all looks very well-tended (I'm a bit of a messy gardener, myself!) We were up in Paisley on Friday (daughter and s-i-l have just moved there from Partick) and the weather was quite nice. Long may it last!

Hope you are feeling much better now, Mouldy - I love the way you referred to me as a 'Babe' ... LOL! Good to see the black grass is thriving - well done ... :o)

Thanks to all who've posted comments since 29th May!
The garden is coming on a treat now.
I've added more plants, containers, hanging baskets, etc and will bore you all with another blog shortly.
Don't say you weren't warned. ;-)