Care Farm helpers work hard

Our lawn has finally grown enough to be mown.  We have been feeding the vegetables on a very smelly mixture made from nettles and comfrey.  It seems to have done the trick... Our tomatoes are growing like mad and so are the courgettes, runner beans and salad. 

The summer has been good for viewing butterflies and bees.  We attempted the butterfly count and did other pollinator surveys as part of the citizen science project.  However, we weren't so pleased to see the numbers of white butterfly caterpillars on our nasturtium leaves!  There were 100s of them.  We removed them by hand, but they were very persistent.

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