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With Dick Robinson
How does one garden when rabbits invade the plots after dark and eat off the newly planted cabbages and other plants? My small vegetable and flower areas have been attacked this year, and other folk in Rudston have had their gardens affected as well. What with wood pigeons, slugs, and now rabbits, why do we bother to garden at all?
We should be free from frosts now, so it's out with the late spring bedders, and in with the summer display. Dahlias and the runner bean plants can go in; both these like a warm time and plenty of moisture. Like lots of runners, they are a class vegetable and freeze well. If my cauliflower and sprout plants can survive the rabbits, a feed will help them. Soot was once a favourite with the sprout growers in Bedfordshire, tons of the filthy stuff came out of London, and was spread round the plants, a most objectionable job. The clean air act stopped this, yet soot is a good and cheap form of nitrogen in the form of Sulphate of Ammonia for use on celery. Fresh soot is very caustic and should be allowed to stand for three months under cover before applying.
This is the month when we can expect our apple trees to start to drop small fruits, this is known as June Drop, and is nature's way of thinning heavy crops after a good set. The trouble is that nature, some times, tends to over-do the job and too many fruits drop; a dry time will also
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