A5a - purple sprouting broccoli.
What with the problems of 'the neighbour', and the coronavirus pandemic (and the possible consequences of that) I arrived late morning at the allotment garden of Nowhere in particular, in a gloomy but determined mood. I didn't see anyone else until much later in the day.
Plot A - top
I started removing the covers from the raised beds of Plot A - top, where I will try and grow most of the edible crops this year. I'll have to do some weeding and other preparatory tasks over the coming weeks in readiness for sowing and planting out.
P1 - polytunnel
One of the winter salad beds in the polytunnel - overgrown by self-sown plants (or weeds) that include chickweed, henbit dead-nettle*, watercress and dittander. I sowed the kale, miner's lettuce, greek cress, mustard and other mixed oriental salads. There is a grapevine growing at the top end of the bed. All the weeds are edible, and some, growing elsewhere outside as well, are useful to honeybees for pollen forage as part of their early spring build-up.
* I thought it might be red dead-nettle at first.
Something has been enjoying the kale more than me
and after some delving into that lush herbage, I found one of my fellow herbivores - a moth caterpillar of the Yellow Underwing species - a large or a lesser, I don't know?
Is it a pest?
Covers also came off some beds in the lower part of the site - in Plot B - bottom.
The processing of the compost from B9b continued - with some of it added to B6a (the New Zealand Yam bed) as a mulch.
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