Successional Sowing & Brassicas

Today I managed to get the final batch of mangetout sown. The first batch is suffering a bit from hungry slugs so I’ll start to save some plastic bottle tops to make mini-cloches to go over them at night. Once we have some tree growth – in a few years – we’ll be able to encourage the birds to loiter around the patch. It worked wonders in the first veggie patch – after a year of encouraging the birds the slugs were virtually nil!

I also picked up some brassica plugs from the local market gardener who produces them by the hundreds and thousands for their own use. £5 bought me 50 plants:

• 20 pointy cabbages
• 20 round cabbages
• 10 brussel sprouts
• a couple of hanging basket tomatoes

In some ways I feel like a charlatan for not having grown them from seed, but then the seed would have cost more for the amount we want to plant!