How does your garden grow?

[MaryN]

I've had a good year so far. The rain early in the year swelled the fruit on the trees and soft fruit bushes - we've been inundated, and the freezer is full.

After last year's butterfly armageddon I got OH to erect a large cage covered in anti-butterfly netting. All brassicas are in it and not one butterfly has managed to get in. No caterpillars munching away on the leaves and with any luck we'll get brussels sprouts this winter, along with nice cabbages and purple sprouting. I would recommend this to anyone plagued by butterflies.

The only thing not so good this year have been runner beans - they have swelled and gone hard too quickly, so the crop is a bit reduced. I have no idea why.

Still, all in all, a fruitful year.[/b]