Bill n Ben go postal on weed

Another scorcher and I laid into the weeds down the side of my plot where they have been making sterling progress on slowly encroaching on my beds. A solid three hour session has seen them pretty well decimated now and should give the beds a bit more of a chance.

I also planted out the second lot of cauliflowers into the bed that the caterpillars have enjoyed so much. To defeat the little blighters I constructed a cage out of netting (blatantly plagiarised off pauls plot next door apart from the fact he used semi-skimmed coke cans and I prefer full fat).



Hopefully this should allow me to get at least one cauliflower out of the two dozen I planted originally. The cabbage bed I did the same thing on is looking better as it now has cabbages with leaves on in it.


The carrots have turned into triffids with the hot weather !!!


And the spinach, swiss chard and fennel, feeling left behind by their carroty chums have suddenly put on a spurt.


Even the leeks which made a very poor showing earlier in the year, have started to put in an appearance. (You still need to look closely though).


And finally, the plot as it stands today.