you can see a few cabbage stalks behind the newly installed weapon
The reason for a castle, rather than a scattering of blue pellets, is due to my small fur child, who for some reason quite likes to eat dirt. I also don't like the idea of the poison getting into the soil. My initial model (1.1) didn't have the drawbridge over the sharp cut edge. I thought it was a nice touch, even if only aesthetically....
The seedlings that this castle is protecting are broccoli, red cabbage and mini cabbage. I have a few more broccoli plants growing a few beds away, and they're just starting to sprout:
Over the last 8 months that I've been working on this garden, I've discovered that while the beds are relatively small, to access the plants in the centre of each bed requires me to step into the garden bed. I have heavy clay soil and so when I step onto it, I compress it, which makes it harder to dig into later. So in the newly planted beds, I've been lying old planks along the centre of the beds. When you step onto the planks, your weight is redistributed slightly, and it means that you don't get dirty feet either (I have a bad habit of walking out in ugg boots to the garden patch at night to get last minute vegies for dinner, then having to wash my ugg boots when I come back in. Der)
Last weekend's planting of garlic and beetroot seeds
between the planks. Plus leeks, spring onions.
Access planks in my cabbage/broccoli/established cauliflower bed
On another note, my rocket and one of my lettuces are going to seed. I've never seen a lettuce go to seed as it's the first time I've successfully grown them, so I thought I'd sit back and watch the show!
seeding rocket in background and foreground,
a seeding lettuce centre left, and some happy lettuces separating
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