Saturday was a breezy, mild mostly cloudy day. The main weather event was to be some overnight rain into Sunday morning. Once again it didn't happen and a couple of showers left us with a rainfall of just 1mm.
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| Garden border |
In the garden our border come hedgerow still looks good despite the lack of rain but the lawn is now dry and starting to develop some dry patches. The lawn won't get watered as it will soon recover once we have some rain.
On the plot we have planted up our trial bed of club root resistant cabbages and cauliflowers. This is following the rather successful trial I saw last year on the Beech Grove Garden TV programme.
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| Cauliflower - Clapton and cabbages - Kilaton |
The plants have been well spaced out to give them plenty of growing space - perhaps it's a bit of wishful thinking. All the plants had produced excellent root systems in their module cells.
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| Cabbages and cauliflowers after planting |
Each planting hole was filled with water to give the plants a good start in the dry ground. They have been covered with butterfly netting to not only keep away the butterflies but also the wood pigeons who can devastate a crop in just one day.
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