Here it is growing in pots ready for planting out in the garden. It has to be protected from the nasty rabbits that come into our garden and steal our food and also from some butterflies. We thought that butterflies were pretty things but apparently there are some horrible white ones, who lay their eggs on brassicas ( that is the cabbage family ) and the caterpillars that hatch out eat the leaves.
Nothing is safe from pests. Slave has special butterfly netting to put over our kale. This has small holes that the butterflies cannot pass through, The lengths that Slave goes to to make sure that we get our favourite veggies.
We like the second picture as there is a pot of chickweed at the front. Chickweed is one of our favourite weeds and it prefers to grow wild but Slave is trying to grow it in pots for us. We do not think that this will go very far.
Those pots of kale look so pretty (not to mention delicious!).
ReplyDeleteOur Slave has tried growing chickweed over the winter several times and it has never worked out well. Even carefully trying to duplicate the conditions it enjoys outside cannot keep it happy. Weeds are persnickety things!
Chickweed always grows best when it chooses where to grow. This one came up in a pot with a petunia in it so when the petunia took its place in a hanging basket, Slave put some more compost around the weed.
ReplyDeleteSometimes it is plentiful at her friend's farm but the fields have been cleared for planting new crops. After some rain, we hope the chickweed seeds will sprout and feed us again.