#self sufficiency

I know I said I'd not make the same cucumber mistake again but I've made the same cucumber mistake again 🥒 🤪

Having sorted out the aphid problem and been keeping on top of the slugs by watering in nematodes, I was expecting a quiet few weeks in the polytunnel...

Somehow a sneaky cabbage white butterfly must have managed to get through or into my netting because every single cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli plant had / bunch of very hungry caterpillars munching holes in them 🐛 😩

So tonight I harvested everything that was ready and will have to freeze rather than pick fresh. I've saved a fair few of the remainder by picking off any leaves with eggs and catching up all the crawlers. These I fed to the chooks who were very pleased!

I'm thinking next year I may have to make netting frames for the doors that will let the pollinators in but not the butterflies. And also net inside for double defence!