Sunday Oct 10th

The cabbage moths have arrived.

Mixed basil

The main bed with large stakes for tomatoes.

The very first cherry blossom flowers.  The weren't there yesterday.

Time to potter today.  Sown Mr Fothergill's Cos lettuce in the old cos lettuce wicking box and in a new styrene box (not wicking).  Planted corriander seedlings in maple pot and in pot near corner fish pond.  Also planted sweet basil seedlings in a freckle lettuce wicking box, in the main garden bed near the squash and in the Greek basil pot near the gate..  Also planted basil mix seedlings in strawberry bed with earwig baits, snail bait and a cage over the top.  Wouldn't you know it;  the day after you take the protective wire cage off the collards etc because they have out grown it,  the cabbage moths turn up.  Time to make a curtain protection tunnel.