Garden Up-Date. The rain juvenate’s the garden

With the drought the roses looked so sad, but all of the rain gave the roses new live and beautiful flowers.

The potatoes that had died back are partially making new leaves since the rain came. I should not take to long to get these out of the ground, because otherwise the potatoes I want to harvest will grow new and I will be left with only small potatoes.

Digging out the potatoes makes a lot of fun. With the kid’s helping it is like treasure hunting. Thanks to the thick layer of straw the potatoes are not very deep, so just scraping of the straw already reveals a lot of the potatoes and we can start collecting without digging to much. I am happily surprised that despite the drought the bottom layer of straw is already decomposing and in most beds I found earthworms. Which is a very good sign, since there where none in the soil when it was brought to us in the spring.

Unfortunately the rain also brought the slugs back. We also found small eggs in different sizes in the ground, among them eggs from slugs. I do not know from what animal these eggs are.

And because it is so pretty another anemone flower.