Kitchen Garden Forum

The day before yesterday I was organising my Polytunnel to try and fit more seedlings on to my over stuffed shelves. I placed six very well developed red cabbages, which I had been hardening off, on to the floor of the PT along with some very good looking sweet peas. Yesterday I walked into the polytunnel to find the cabbages stripped of all leaves and just stalks left. The sweet peas had had the same treatment. The leaves were left in a little pile at the side. We had slug pellets down on the bed at the other side where we have tomatoes and lettuce in.

So now I have to re sow the seeds and start again. mmmmm

Dear Monika, how frustrating, it sounds like the work of mice, to me. They really do seem to be a problem everywhere this year, probably down to the mild winter, so they haven't stopped breeding.

How are you keeping by the way?

Dear OH, Monika!! have you been sipping in the kitchen with the cook!! Bit early for that.

My OH put a mouse trap in last night and this morning we found, unfortunatley, a poor little blue tit, though I am sure that this is not what took the cabbages out.

I am keeping well, thank you for asking, just been very busy with life in general, and I am, as usual, panicking about the amount of seeds I have sown, both in the polytunnel and greenhouse, (which we were given last year) it is only very small but is filled to the gunnels with seedling. (My OH thinks I need to be sent to the Priory for seed addiction) I have loads of seedlings to transplant and the weather has been awful for the last four or five days and our allotment is again swimming on the paths. As we garden on quite a steep slope the paths, when it is so wet, are very slippy.The potting shed is at the top of the plot and the PT is on the bottom of the plot.

We keep promising to change to bark but we love to see the paths of grass mown in the summer which makes the allotment look lovely.

Catherine, I think OH is confusing us because we both from "oop north"!
I think I'll forgive him.

Me too Monika

Sorry about the mishap with names, not sure what was going on in that head of mine.

Regarding your amount of plants, Catherine, i bet you have got there in the end, in previous years, and i'm sure this year will be the same.

I hope so this year. I feel that I am being overtaken. Need to take Calms me thinks.