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No droppings no, but I'll put the next batch on some stilts anyway just in case.

No luck with the slug traps and I could not find woodlice under anything. I did however find a coin sized hole in the soil nearby, could it be voles?

Thanks, I've set up some slug traps. Hopefully that helps.

on a ledge in the greenhouse.

A decapitated lettuce seedling.

Something is eating my lettuce seedlings, only the little stems are left. Does anyone know what would be doing that?
Any tips on preventing that from happening would also be welcome :)
#allotment

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young garlic in the snow

The year is starting well at the #allotment

Seed advent calendar

Tomatoes at various stages of ripening.

Harvested the last of the tomatoes to make space for garlic. About 200 cherry tomatoes, most of them very green. #VegetableGardening

#vegetableGardening

A braid of garlic.

Time to plant these.

Lots of green Tigerella tomatoes on the vine.

Two small Hokkaido red kuri (not red yet, still very yellow)

A wrinkley Marmande tomato, unripe

Things are growing, I love it.
That Marmande looks like it is going to get big.
#VegetableGardening

Oh thank you, that's a relief.

I have a #VegetableGardening question: I have harvested my first garlic and there are signs of leaf miners, can I still dry/cure my garlic normally?

It doesn't look like there are too many in there but I don't know how to proceed.

A bunch of different lettuces.

The lettuce patch is starting to look quite good :)
#VegetableGardening

A folding chair sticking out of a cargo bike.

Getting ready for summer.
#CargoBike
#CarryShitOlympics

Oh, I am sorry, that was a spelling mistake. I meant baking.

Frying? Roasting?

With some oil, garlic and onion in a pan :)

I've started backing my radishes, that takes all the heat out.

A Bumblebee on a Blueberry

Pollination is getting taken care of.
#VegetableGardening

No, I was wrong, they are not protected in the Netherlands. They are beneficial though and the bee people I spoke to told me to release it.

Could the memo have been about the asian hornet? Those are being hunted here since they kill whole bee populations.

This is a native hornet which is protected. They are beneficial as they prey on many garden pests.

#VegetableGardening

A European hornet in a plastic cup.

Caught (and released) a European Hornet queen today. She was inside one of the sheds on the allotments.
These are big, 3.5cm and quite scary.

I think those few days extra with flopped over half dead leafs won't make a huge difference. I would try one :)

A small red kuri with lots of new leaves and flower buds.

Hokkaido red kuri doing very well.
#VegetableGardening

Huge water droplet on a wild spinach leaf

First time growing wild spinach (Melde), it's doing surprisingly well and its hydrophobic leaves create these beautiful droplets.
#VegetableGardening

Tomato seedlings in a cargobike on a bridge.

Took my tomatoes for a ride. Lovely day for them to be outside for a bit.
#Cargobike #VegetableGardening

A bean climbing structure made from willow shoots.

Made a climbing thingy from willow shoots. Quite proud of it :)
#VegetableGardening