that sense of over confidence

[SelkirkAlex]

over confidence is just a polite way to say mother nature is plotting her next way to kick you in the googlies.

the latest one for me was in my brassicas bed. my late cauliflowers and cabbages were coming along really well, all securely netted, protected from birds, bugs and snow. the biggest concern was that I might have to harvest early,

and then my health intervened and I was rushed into hospital, the crops continued doing very well. so well that they started pushing up against the inside of the net.presenting the cabbage whites with an invitation. net result, when I got home and well enough to get in the garden it was to discover a nicely netted bed of skeletons, not a leaf in sight.

anyone know what a cauli costs in the shops?

[Small pumpkin]

Sometimes the cauliflowers have to take a back seat. Your health is more important. Hope you've made a full recovery.

[bikermike]

eeeek! Hope the hostipal was both not too serious and sorted.

Sorry to hear about your crops. I assume there was enough against the side to allow things to lay against them?

I remember the first year I netted my brassica and totally got the scale wrong, and came back to a solid green mass of foliage. Nothing had eaten it - I think even the cabbage white couldn't get near it.

Once I'd cleared it back, I found several things that would have been really nice if I'd found them a week before they'd bolted, not after...

[SelkirkAlex]

the way I see it I am about 6 or 7 years into borrowed time already so this is all bonus extra time anyway and I don't intend to let anything spoil the fun, this last episode as a fairly minor waterworks infection which developed into sepsis. luckily the doctors got on top of it quickly and I am fine and have a newly polished cloak of invulnerability

[lottie dolly]

Pleased you ok,never mind the brasicas,better them than you lad

[muck lover]

Hmmmmmm.....
Death by sepsis Vs ruined caulis
Thinking, thinking....
I just can’t grow the poxy things at all so I’m in awe.

[no_akira]

Had x6 Red Cabbages growing nicely with one of them being a lovely specimen.

Went the other day and a fox has chewed a whole section out of it across its shinny face.

Foxes are mischievous little bleeders.

[burnie]

Glad you're on the mend Alex

[SarrissUK]

Nevermind the caulis! They give you wind anyway... I'm glad to hear you're feeling better

[happyhumph]

Glad you're feeling better - I had sepsis a few years ago - scary how quickly it goes bad. Take it easy recovering - it's surprising how much sepsis knocks it out of you for quite a while afterwards.

I buy my cauliflowers from the shop.....

[Chestnut]

I haven’t been buying much veg over the last few months, but think cauliflower are only about £1 each (and much bigger than the ones I usually grow...).
So, take it easy on yourself and let your body finish recovering, buy whatever veggies you need, then get sorting through your seed tin and see what you can start growing next ;-)

[Snoop Puss]

Phew, Alex. Close call there. Sepsis is no joke. Glad you're doing OK.