I'm sure this is a black slug making itself at home in the cabbage:
If so, then it should be somewhere else e.g. the compost heap, where it could do some good. Sadly it has now become a two course lunch for the birds (work it out)!
Overall I'm quite pleased with the various cabbages, but less so the red cabbage, where only one has really formed a decent heart so far:
An area of onions and carrots has been cleared and will soon be home for over wintering broad beans and early peas.
This weekend will be the end of one year of allotmenteering. I'll have a party... courgettes with candles in?
Does anyone know what sort of butterfly this is? It was sun bathing on the pepper plant today.
Meanwhile a lot of back breaking effort has removed the remains of the old gooseberry hedge. There are two small oak tree stumps in the middle of it that will require more effort over the coming weeks.
Visitors to the plot will be aware that it is a half plot, but the tenants(s) of the other half have not tended it all year.
When we took on the plot we agreed that the old gooseberry hedge was the boundary. In fact by the time we had cleared everything our half seems a bit bigger, but then not of the plots are the same size anyway.
It's now time to remove the remains of the hedge as it will cause future problems if we don't. Our neighbour hasn't done anything, so we're removing it. The issue is, whose plot is it now on? If we remove it can we have the land. It's a bit like is the line in or out in tennis? We're taking the view that the line is in, so will plant it up. We've already created a new compost exactly on the hdge line.
Meanwhile, the hollyhocks look a bit tatty, but I love them anyway.
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