Moving on

The mice have kindly left me with enough seedlings to bring on a dozen early cabbage plants and a dozen caulis. These are now transplanted into modules, and I have added a sprinkling of garden lime into the compost. Brassicas are lime lovers, and it also helps to prevent clubroot. Although cabbages and caulis are quite tough plants, there are so many things waiting to attack them - slugs, snails, mice & voles, rabbits, deer, pigeons and later on caterpillars - these will be brought on under protection for two or three more weeks! These cabbages are Greyhound which are (in theory) a quick growing small variety. The next batch of cabbages, Golden Acre, has just germinated and should then provide round larger ballhead cabbages through the summer. If you can't picture yourself eating two dozen cabbages in the next six months, adjust the numbers accordingly - but allow for some losses.