# 2438Prior to pulling, then sadly, adding to compost. Should I give up on brassicas?

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# 2384The local snails have found the cabbages, but hopefully their 'hearts' are still okay.

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# 2257I didn't have the time to give them any protection. Will they escape the attention of birds and beasts?

# 2253# 2252Time to transplant the Greyhounds. Nb. I've tried 'dimpling' the soil to hopefully catch the best of the forecast rain.

# 2246Time to think about transplanting those seedlings that need.

# 2221A lesson learnt. Don't mulch a seedbed with compost that's had ants in it as birds just love their eggs! It took me ages to un-bury the majority of the seedlings :)

# 2206Taken halfway through mulching with a 4cm layer of garden compost..

# 2205.. and then again when finished and watered in.

# 2199Taken halfway through their second thinning. I'm glad it's harder to spot which side is which this time!

# 2178Taken halfway through thinning. I sowed them all way too thickly (My only excuse being I was worried over the age of the seed).

# 2163Sowed 1 row of lettuce 'Little Gem', 2 rows cabbage 'Greyhound' (Not sure why I sowed these as re-reading the packet they should be sown Feb - April, doh!), 1 row cabbage 'Red Drumhead', 1 row lettuce 'Marvel of Four Seasons', 2 rows Kohl Rabi 'Green Delicacy' and 1 row radish 'French Breakfast'.

Notes From Home 05/04/09

Decided to put to compost the brassicas that I sowed on the 12.03.09 and the lettuces sowed on the 20.03.09

Notes From Home 21/03/09

Pricked out 26 Cabbage 'Greyhound' (Sown 12.03.09) into 2 half-trays.

First Sowings 2009!

All indoors. 1 small tray of each:

Aubergine 'Long Purple', Cabbage 'Earliest Of All', Cabbage 'Greyhound', Cauliflower 'Snowball', Unwins 'Creepy Crawly Mixture' (Hardy Annuals).

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