Netting and Protecting.

These two pictures really give you a contrast with the recent bit of the plot that was rotavated. It doesn’t seem to have bothered the plants.

Anyway, you can see that I have put collars round the strawberries to stop slugs and also to keep them clean when it rains. Yes, that might not happen for a while if they are right about global warming, but you have to try. This is the first year I have really bothered with strawberries, so we will see how well they turn out.

Below is a better picture of the netting over the cabbage. It’s a good way to keep the birds off your plants. Of course the slugs still make for it, but the netting gives them a headache. I found a few slug trails on the netting and a few dead ones boiled in the sun. They had left trails as though they went round in circles until they gave up the ghost and just died.

You can also see how I improvised the hoops with wire.