Garden Diary, 19 September 2005

Well, disaster has struck ! It's decided to snow heavily today and the broad beans have been wiped out. I think everything else will be OK, though. They'll definitely have to go in much later next year and be much better supported. If they'd had better support they might have made it. And now it's around 11:15 am and I hear thunder and lightning, and the snow is turning to hail, adding insult to injury. Never mind, the damage is done now. Makes you think, though, about the need to diversify so that if any one crop fails you've got a number of others to fall back on.