Yeah, we get that as well. Come February we'll be thinking of 30°C as cool.I recall while living in Nevada when it dropped lower than 112°F/44°C in the fall I quit thinking it was hot. Giving myself a mental respite...
you're lucky. over here if the native birds can see that, they will destroy it in seconds. I have to keep all of my veg plot covered and fenced in to stop them eating or just ripping it up and destroying everything.
I'm still getting strawberries. I did spot that my raspberries are starting to colour and plump up. We're due a wet weekend which will help considerably and then I think both sets of raspberries will be cropping heavily - more than last year from what I can tell and I was taking 1kg almost 3 times a week at the height of the season.
The deer are the pests here. We have a new outside dog, Ozzie, and he's pretty much kept the critters away. I've taught him to "run the edges" and he'll run along the grassed boundaries and a bit into the woods too and do that several times a day.
used to deer. When I lived in Scotland, they would frequently raid the bins unless the bin lid had a brick or rock on it. In the lake district, the only thing we could do with the bins was to keep them in an outhouse. In Surrey, we had to keep the veg plot fenced in as well as the fruit trees that we planted because the deer would eat the leaves and bark and kill them otherwise. We also get various species of deer here. They're an introduced species and also a pest. We have red deer where we live, but they are far less of a problem than the kangaroos and wallabies.
We'd never been here either until we stepped off the plane to live here for 3 years.
