John's Gardening Diary (26/06/20)

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Freesias coming into bloom as are the sweetpeas, both providing fragrant bunches of cut flowers. Everything is growing at pace now especially the weeds.

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Sweet corn coming away now but attacked by another leporid. Not content with jousting with rabbits a hare decided to leave its leveret inside the vegetable garden. I managed to shoo it out but the mother came back looking for the offspring and fancied the sweetcorn, nibbling the base of the stems; one killed and two mortally wounded. Bits of drainage pipe now protecting them...........after the horse had bolted.

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Old tattie riddle providing a gate in the netting fence. The holes are 2" square and a baby rabbit being chased by a man with a stick scooted through without slowing down. Now covered with rabbit netting - not the only local gardener to witness this phenomenon.