This is the protected part of the garden. It’s fenced in, and has a number of cabbage cages. The fencing is to keep the deer and rabbits out and the cages are to keep the cabbage butterflies from laying eggs on the cabbages. The white garden fleece is there to protect the young plants from the leaf beetle (psylliodes chalcomerus).
For many years I had given up on growing anything in the cabbage family because if the leaf beetles didn’t kill the young plants, the larve of the cabbage butterfly would nearly completely devour the plants leaving only skeletons until I came upon the idea of making cages with chicken wire that keep almost all the butterflies out.
looks well protected…i hope it all holds and you get a good yield! Tell me, how long is your day this time of year? when is sunrise/sunset?
Yes, it’s well protected and last year the result was very good. We made saurkraut for the whole year.
The days are long now with the sunrise at about 0400 and sunset at 2200 (or 10 pm). Midsummer day (the 22 june) is the longest when we party all night.