The day of Sammy's 3rd birthday party and whilst Louis and I baked and iced cakes back at the ranch, Neil and Granddad took Sammy up the allotment to plant out some winter veg in place of our now finished courgettes and carrots.
They planted out Leeks, Brussel Sprouts and Cabbages. They put the Cabbages under our cage to protect them but the poor Brussels! On our visit today (only planted them yesterday) some of them had been nibbled to death by slugs, I guess and snails already!
On his return Sammy said he was a bit bored but sucked his thumb and stroked Ratty (for those of you who don't live with Sammy day in day out Ratty is his friend du jour and has a particularly long label for him to stroke whilst sucking his thumb). I will get them interested in growing, I will, I will!
In other allotment related news, we received a letter from Salisbury City Council today stating that due to the high number of entries this year for the Scarecrow competition, even though they thought "our little white man was very cute" we had sadly failed to win anything this time around. You can judge for yourselves from the photograph -please be kind we have had a lot of rain and he is made out of straw!!
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