Death stalks my garden, while everyone on social media shows off their perfect tomatoes and dazzling blooms, writes Emma Beddington
Death stalks my garden, while everyone on social media shows off their perfect tomatoes and dazzling bloomsverything in the garden is not rosy. It’s not even green; it’s yellow or brown, or yellow with brown spots. It’s my third summer and it has all gone wrong. The various pollinator-friendly flower seeds I carefully planted and tended managed to produce the grand total of: one self-seeded weed.
The apples all fell off the tree and are rotting in a wasp-infested heap that smells like a cider festival toilet. My sole success, a Central American vine, succumbed to some novel plague this week.: one day fine , the next, catastrophic blight. “All my precious ones,” I whispered, like a character from a Jacobean tragedy whose children have been murdered, clutching putrid brown bunches to my chest. That’s it for me and tomatoes: I can’t go through that again.
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