No visit to the Hill today - as I had other things to get on with instead.
A bit of a shame, actually, as I remembered at about 8pm - just as it was getting too dark to do anything about it - that yesterday I'd had to pick caterpillars off the valiant brussels sprouts plants (which have survived against the odds), & I had thought to go an either find some netting from the garage, or buy a length from the store shed and then cover the bed.
Messing about with netting is just about my least favourite job in the world, but if I want to enjoy brussels sprouts rather than fattening up the caterpillar population, I'd better get on with it.
We have the cabbage whites almost year round here .. only a couple of months (june/july) this year when it was too cold for them ....
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It's been a prolific year for them here, apparently - something to do with the weather.
ReplyDeleteOur virtually all-the-year-round brassica pest is whitefly - clouds of them!