Friday, November 23, 2012

Out of sight, out of mind

Oooops! I just found these in a neglected corner of my garden. Brassica plantlets (savoy cabbage, tuscan kale and early sprouting broccoli) that I moved out of the cold frame in early October and subsequently forgot they even existed. Naughty careless suburban veg gardener!


I've found homes for most of them dotted around the raised beds. Hopefully they'll forgive my neglect and still give me something of a harvest come 2013?


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  1. Amazingly the slugs appear to have forgotten them too.

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    1. I hadn't noticed that before you mentioned it. Yes, these are much less nibbled than their counterparts already in the ground. Maybe I should keep the location of my 'patio corner of neglect' under wraps as clearly the slugs haven't found it!

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  2. I'm sure they'll forgive you. I don't have any brassicas growing for winter this year, the slugs got all the seedlings and I never got round to sowing more. I'm sure I'm going to regret it.

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    1. The slugs really have been terrible this year - my salad leaves took the brunt of their attentions. Hopefully the hardy brassicas with stand up to them over the winter.

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  3. Now that sounds like the sort of thing I do. They look as if they have thrived on the neglect though and with feet in ground they will now romp away.

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    1. They do seem okay - maybe I'll try the whole neglect thing with other seedlings and see how they do! My mum used to put under-performing houseplants in the conservatory as a warning to them as to what was in store if they didn't buck their ideas up. And when I say conservatory, this was a 1970s brick lean to on the back of a 1930s detached house - stone floor, single glazing and plenty of draughts. The inside of the windows would freeze during winter!

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  4. If I had done that they'd be shredded by 100s of cabbage whites marauding all over them. Hope they do well for you.

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    1. The cabbage whites were so busy on my brussels sprouts, I don't think they needed to go looking for anything else.

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