I was cleaning out our little garden the other day when it
hit me: we had no slugs or snails this year. We planted carrots and radishes,
beets and turnips, strawberries, peppers, onions, tomatoes, Swiss chard and
Japanese eggplant. And no one munched on our produce but us. Was there a mysterious
snail blight? For the most part, our root vegetables did very well this year.
We also had a bumper crop of berries. Though our youngest granddaughter fed several
to the dogs, we still had plenty for cereal, pie, ice cream and even jam. All
summer we nurtured four large potted tomato plants, imagining BLTs in the fall.
But their output was disappointing; possibly because every pot fell off the
deck at least once. We didn’t get a single pepper, though the pepper plants
were lovely. Don’t worry – we didn’t starve. Our neighbors’ gardens prospered,
and their veggies periodically showed up on our doorstep.
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