Nogget
Monday 22nd June 2015 9:16am
Brighton
6,626 posts
Quote: Lazzard @ 22nd June 2015, 9:28 AM BST
They are buggers for that.
We had squashes that scrambled up a tree once - when they were ripe it looked like the tree was festooned with orange lanterns.
I'd like to see that.
Quote: Lazzard @ 22nd June 2015, 9:28 AM BST
See you've got your kale un-netted.
Weren't they eaten alive by cabbage white caterpillars??
Or pecked to death by pigeons???
You'd have to ask Lady Nogget about that, but you can see the hoop onto which the netting had been attached. We do get cabbage whites, and pigeons; also all the usual suspects, white fly, aphids, black fly, mosaic virus and of course blight, which has wiped out all our tomatoes from the past three years. Also, this year the foxes are partial to our carrots, and have eaten the lot. You'd have to be very stupid to keep trying to grow stuff in the face of all the set-backs. We are that stupid.