Kale

 So I,ve been battling through the day with migraine . There was talk of rain possibly coming out way , so I wanted to get my Kale seedlings planted out .

I had to keep stopping and starting , having a flop . It was a real drag , but I was really keen to get this done .

This was where the onion sets were ....a complete waste of time and effort . I gave up after the first heatwave . I couldn't keep up with the watering and no one helped me to fix the stupid hose . 

And then the deer munched my Brussel sprouts ....and the gales smashed my Runnerbeans to pieces ..and two lots of courgette seeds failed .

Apart from the beautiful Chives that I grew from seed , this vegetable bed was almost a complete fail  . 

 So I climbed in and weeded it all out .  The ground is so hard and dry . It was very hard work .

                ( The onions are the same size as when I first planted them  ! )

I decided to throw in the spent tomato compost .

I pulled out the most miserable  Brussel sprout specimens and then started to feel a bit more positive about everything .

                                           Found a baby carrot !

                          ...and enjoyed the sweetest and most fragrant nibble 🥕

And that reminded me of just why we like to grow our own vegetables . There is nothing like the sweet taste of home grown vegetables fresh from the earth .

I stopped again for lunch .

Then brought my Kale seedlings down from the shed .

A nice selection of a Dwarf variety  , Vate's Blue and Cavolo Nero Kales .

I have more that I will continue to grow on in the shed .

I got them watered and all covered over and then had to open it up again when I noticed a Cabbage White Butterfly in side !

All that messing about with netting ! Ugh ! 

 Tomorrow I have to repair the holes in the netting .  🦌  I found an old walking stick to hold the other end of the netting up . 

                   Aching like Hell !  But glad to have got this job done ! 

 

                                  Tomorrow I need to weed the Leeks !

                          The rain didn't come ..... maybe tonight .....  🌦️🌧️🌘🌧️

                                     🐜🐞🐌🐌🦌🐰🐰🐛🦋 🪲🐝

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