Mice

.. have been eating my broad bean seeds down at the allotment. I did an autumn sowing that produced one plant. So I planted some seedlings which I’d started in pots, protecting them, I thought, from slugs with copper rings. But something got in, over the rings and nibbled off the shoots. A conversation with a neighbouring plotter revealed that it was mice, not slugs, which were demolishing my beans so the copper rings were useless. Different protections would be needed. Here are some of my attempts: Plastic bottles and a mini cloche over newly sown seeds and some more mature seedlings planted out. We’ll have to see what works. Meanwhile the onions seem to be doing ok. As do the potatoes. In other allotment news, I have finally made a decision, and acted on it, about what do with what we have called plum henge. Here it is in April surrounded by daffodils. This is basically the pollarded remains of an ancient and unproductive plum tree. Despite it looking quaintly artistic, I really…