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It's time--past time, really--to wake the garden up. The fall broccoli's having one of those growth spurts that makes it look as though someone has been sneaking out at night and replacing each head with a new, larger bunch. Veggie anti-vandals.
I think I lost the arbequina olive trees in the December cold snap. I'll leave them to see whether June puts new leaves on them.
I'm trying cabbage this spring. It's prone to pests, so I've never grown it before. Perhaps it will be fine since it's going out into the garden now, before the bugs wake up. The earliness of the season must be the reason that the broccoli is looking so fine. Broccoli, a close cousin to cabbage, is the most trouble-prone crop I grow, as it has more than one ravenous predator that enjoys this climate--cabbage moths and woolly aphids. I've even known a slug or two to take a whack at the broccoli, which all the texts imply is extremely unlikely, but there it is. Not even broccoli can stop a Seattle slug with carnage on its mind. (Maybe I mean veggage. Is that a word?)
I think I lost the arbequina olive trees in the December cold snap. I'll leave them to see whether June puts new leaves on them.
I'm trying cabbage this spring. It's prone to pests, so I've never grown it before. Perhaps it will be fine since it's going out into the garden now, before the bugs wake up. The earliness of the season must be the reason that the broccoli is looking so fine. Broccoli, a close cousin to cabbage, is the most trouble-prone crop I grow, as it has more than one ravenous predator that enjoys this climate--cabbage moths and woolly aphids. I've even known a slug or two to take a whack at the broccoli, which all the texts imply is extremely unlikely, but there it is. Not even broccoli can stop a Seattle slug with carnage on its mind. (Maybe I mean veggage. Is that a word?)