Garden: Review of the Year

Rubbish!

Well, that was easy ...

Maybe that is a slight exaggeration, but 2013 has been far and and away the most difficult growing season we've had.  It started to rain and snow in January and pretty much kept going through until the middle of June, bringing devastating floods to the Pyrenees.  So although we did have an epic ski season, we missed days because there was just so much snow that the roads or resort had to be closed due to the risk of avalanches.

But an epic gardening year, it was not.

Leeks under the snow in February 2013

Bugs and Beasties

One of the joys of our first spring in France was walking out into the garden and spotting new insects, bugs and beasties.  There seemed to be thousands and I saw something new almost every day.  It was only later that I realised how many of them had designs on my vegetables!  And I'm still not sure who are the good guys amongst this lot.
 

Brassica beetle and two flea beetles