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Sprouts, Caterpillars and Butterflies

Sprouts

Some of the sprouts are ready for picking now, the rest will be ready in a few weeks time and later sowings should be ready just in time for Christmas dinner. The sprouts are looking very healthy indeed, the same cannot be said for the tops. Cabbage White butterflies were very busy in the summer with our sprouts and cauli leaves, I don’t mind, I’m all for butterfly conservation and probably one of the few vegetable gardeners that welcome their presence. I might grow a few cabbages for them next season, I don’t eat them anyway.

Caterpillar damaged sprout tops

The beautiful summer that we had brought many butterflies to the garden. Which species of butterflies did you spot this year?

Sunshine Spells Butterflies

small tortoiseshell

I’m loving this sunny warm weather. Its doing the chickens good, the garden is coming alive bursting with fresh spring colour, buds are appearing on deciduous shrubs and the butterflies are flying again.

Last Sunday was particularly warm. We have a large patch of overgrown nettles which were attracting lots of fresh Small Tortoiseshell butterflies. I have not managed to get a photo of a Brimstone in focus, wow they are fast.

Roll on summer!

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by The Garden Smallholder on March 19, 2009 • Permalink

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First Butterfly Sighting of the Year

Due to being so busy yesterday with the hen housing preparations I did not get around to updating the blog until now. Yesterday the weather was very sunny and that can only mean one thing. Butterflies!

I am totally nuts about butterflies. I spend a lot of time reading about them, identifying them, learning about their prefered host plants and flight times. I think you get the picture. My name is Karen and I am a butterfly geek. There, I feel better.

Anyhoo, yesterday during all the glorious rays of sunshine, I spotted the first butterfly of the year, a Brimstone in flight. It was just so beautiful and magical as it danced its butterfly dance around my head. I smiled and drifted off into a dream like state. …..

Then Rich shouted at me to pass him his drill. Urrghh.