I've noticed a few thing happening in the vegetable garden which are a bit bizzare. I planted out lots of seeds yesterday. These included Broad and French beans, sweetcorn, spinach, rocket etc.
I then decided that there was going to be far more vegetables there for me to continue watering with the watering can, so it was time to get the hose-pipes and water pump set up. The pump sits by the river and a pipe with a filter on the end sits in the river. This draws up the water. I then connect the hose-pipes to the other side. Now I know this may sound cruel but I left one of the hose-pipes outside, next to the vegetable garden, all winter. It’s not a particularly good one anyway and I don’t care for it as much as the others. Oh come on, we all have our favourites! Don’t we? Anyway, when I went to get it I noticed that it was not in the same position as I had left it. In fact, it had been dragged half way across the adjoining field. On closer inspection, I saw that it had been chewed in half and there were small teeth marks down either side. All I can imagine is that it must have been a fox thinking it was a rather long and tasty snake. What a sight that must have been! Another strange thing that happened in the vegetable garden were some hoof prints. Sometimes we get deer prints and sometimes the wild boar come a bit close but on this particular day, they was no escaping the fact that these prints had been made by a horse. Where it came from I’ve no idea, nor do I know where it went. There were no tracks leading to the garden and none leading from it. The horses that live here had not left their field at all. Of course it had also only gone on the beds that I had just planted in. Must have been a unicorn.
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