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So on Monday I planted out my Pak Choi - I don't have much space, so only six plants, but I thought I'd try this cardboard method I'd heard about on here as it sounded very practical.
I checked on them today -
The other 3 did a bit better
Bit surprised (ok, annoyed) by this - my spinach has been out for several weeks with nothing but a bit of slug damage.
What did this? My guess is it has to be cats, since we have a lot in our garden - our 2, the neighbours 2, the house's behind 1, and at least 4 others I don't see regularly enough to identify.
The plant damage could be birds - the second photo may not show that leaves have been stripped from the plants that weren't pulled out. But I can't imagine birds ripping up the cardboard like that. Wouldn't they have done the same to the spinach too? And I would have thought the cats were a deterrent.
My quick remedy - pushed the the pulled out plant that looks like it could recover back and covered everything with netting (just over the top, didn't have time to make a cage or anything) and reminded myself I have more seed than space anyway.
I checked on them today -
The other 3 did a bit better
Bit surprised (ok, annoyed) by this - my spinach has been out for several weeks with nothing but a bit of slug damage.
What did this? My guess is it has to be cats, since we have a lot in our garden - our 2, the neighbours 2, the house's behind 1, and at least 4 others I don't see regularly enough to identify.
The plant damage could be birds - the second photo may not show that leaves have been stripped from the plants that weren't pulled out. But I can't imagine birds ripping up the cardboard like that. Wouldn't they have done the same to the spinach too? And I would have thought the cats were a deterrent.
My quick remedy - pushed the the pulled out plant that looks like it could recover back and covered everything with netting (just over the top, didn't have time to make a cage or anything) and reminded myself I have more seed than space anyway.
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