inspired by Fandango’s One Word Challenge (FOWC) of 18 January 2021, nourish.
Last year, and my wife had a hunch,
She’d plant out some strawb’ries to munch,
She tended and nourished,
Her strawberries flourished,
‘Til the slugs came and ate them for lunch
Mister Bump 
Nice post
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Thanks, it’s good of you to say so.
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Heartbreak!
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Damn those pesky slugs.
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I’ve lost count of how much fruit we lost to “beasts” over the years. Last year we lost many raspberries to the birds.
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Story of my life, also applied to cherries and birds!
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if we could grow cherries Mrs Bump would have dug up the lawn years ago!
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And you would have subject matter for another poem on fruit and pests 😂
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