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Okay, maybe it’s not essential or life threatening if you can’t grow peaches in Scandinavia, but boy do freshly picked peaches taste good. And it seems like my little peach tree have survived with all its leaves still on the tree. Earlier I’ve had problems with peach leaf curl but I put up a plastic shield to protect the tree against the rain:

There was certainly a greenhouse effect due to the shield and the tree is now full of small fruits in development:

Some of the leaves that were close to the plastic on the inside of the plastic cover look like they are affected a bit still but overall it seems like I have fended off the peach leaf curl:

Time will tell if the fruits will mature properly. I sure hope so. I took care of the pollination by hand with a small piece of cotton wool at the end of a bamboo stick:

Oh, and I found this little fellow sleeping behind the plastic at the foot of the tree:

Maybe it’s not warm enough for cockchafers yet…

That cat is driving me insane. It’s just too helpful sometimes when I’m out working in the garden. But I can’t blame it, it is just behaving naturally like a cat, playing, being curious, expressing its love. Can’t help wondering what people with dogs do, as dogs will dig just for the fun of it. Well the cat has started doing that and it’s very annoying when you have been crawling on your knees for hours sowing and the next day you wake up to a true mess. I can’t even imagine how it manages to find so many beans in the ground.
This is not a normal cat I have to say. Some weeks ago it joined me in the shower. But normally cats hate water. And I think this is the solution to the problem with the seeds:

Remember to water your patches of soil where seeds have been sowed.

There’s a difference between dry and wet soil. Mud is just not that attractive from a cats perspective. Especially if everything else in the garden is dry. I’ll try this principle some more but so far it looks like it’s working.