I went to the Hill yesterday evening in the sunshine with hammer, staples, proper netting & 18 cauliflower plants – too big to be called seedlings, so I hope that they will be ok – to construct a low level brassica cage. I saw retired Maureen digging up her spuds, but other than that it was me & a blackbird.
It didn’t take at all long to nail some netting onto the coldframe that I’d made earlier in the year – especially as the one of the two pieces of netting that I had left over from the rabbit run brassica cage turned out to be EXACTLY the right size – spooky!
I’m pleased with both of the brassica cages, actually, as they are both light enough to move single handed, they are both a good size (the coldframe one can be stood on bricks for extra height) & in winter they can be used to cover tender crops if I pop some fleece over the top. Hurrah!
Despite forgetting to bring the trowel with me (had to use a plastic fork which is another utterly useless piece of kit – it has trouble loosening spring onions, let along tackling digging a pot-size hole in compacted soil) & therefore having to use a spade, the cauliflowers were planted in legume plot A more or less where the peas have come up, & they look a treat.
I picked a LETTUCE (mixed) & half a dozen RADISH (white icicle) for my next door neighbours, pulled a BEETROOT (woden f1) for juicing in the morning & came away content that I’ve foiled the pigeons!
It didn’t take at all long to nail some netting onto the coldframe that I’d made earlier in the year – especially as the one of the two pieces of netting that I had left over from the rabbit run brassica cage turned out to be EXACTLY the right size – spooky!I’m pleased with both of the brassica cages, actually, as they are both light enough to move single handed, they are both a good size (the coldframe one can be stood on bricks for extra height) & in winter they can be used to cover tender crops if I pop some fleece over the top. Hurrah!
Despite forgetting to bring the trowel with me (had to use a plastic fork which is another utterly useless piece of kit – it has trouble loosening spring onions, let along tackling digging a pot-size hole in compacted soil) & therefore having to use a spade, the cauliflowers were planted in legume plot A more or less where the peas have come up, & they look a treat.I picked a LETTUCE (mixed) & half a dozen RADISH (white icicle) for my next door neighbours, pulled a BEETROOT (woden f1) for juicing in the morning & came away content that I’ve foiled the pigeons!
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