The Attack of Attilla

Really is it not bad enough that we have to fight off ants, white fly, drought and other Biblical Plagues!!!!!Now we have had to deal with the attack of Attila , the farm dog (from hell)  Look I love dogs, all shapes,  all sizes,  all temperaments,   BUT  when they attack out tomatoes and cucumbers  my hackles rise grrrrrr.

So you remember last week how we had toiled under 
the hot sun to erect our lovely green netting to protect
our produce from the heat of the very very very hot sun.  
Well evidently Attila thought it was a great place to play 
and during the week ripped it  tore it  pulled it down 
and in the process all the cane we had put up and 
destroyed a few plants grrrrrrrrr.  

 A couple of toms plants and cucumbers were destroyed and all the cane and netting was down.  Helena and Theresa did a sterling job of putting things back together on the Wednesday then Brenda and I took over on the Sunday .  We basically untied everything then tied it back up again.  Until it got dark.  the dog appeared  not looking sheepish (no pun intended) and Brenda uttered a few choice expletives

Well, after a couple of hours we had done the best we could and as night was falling  or had indeed  fallen we decided to call it a night.



One cherry tom remained to be recovered and retied up, but of the rest we were fairly confident they would survive.  Two of the cucumbers had to be consigned to the compost heap (want not waste not), we treated for an ant infestation, did a bit of weeding and retired to come back and fight another day.

The one piece of good news is that the watering system seems to be working and everything else was looking quite perky.  This was Sunday night and I vowed to return on Tuesday with Sarah to finish Operation Save The Toms!!!!.

Tuesday came and we went early  at 6pm.  The previous day temperatures in Kalamata had reached 40 odd degrees so this was a real labour of love.  We reset the water so it should come on 7 til 9 twice a day and retied the remaining poorly tom, then went hunting for produce


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More melons and water melons

Courgettes

and some cucumbers from a different part of the garden than  where Attila attacked.

All in all we felt quite pleased with our efforts and collected some nice goodies to take home.  It remains to be seen if the dog attacks again and we hope next time we go up to re  erect the netting  maybe keeping it further off the ground so Attila cant get at it or even trying to fence the area off.







Watch this space to see who is the winner in the war of the tomato plants versus Attila the farm dog  (du du du duhhhhhh)   And  have a go at the caption competition ....