Building a cabbage cage
All this effort just for butterflies. The cabbage moth butterfly loves our farm. All the cabbage leaves they can lay their eggs on in one long season of growth are before them.
And I cannot keep up with them. They lay their eggs, fly off, and the little caterpillars hatch out and devour my brassicas.
And frankly, I have enough squishing on my plate.
Lily beetles, gendarmes (little red bugs that can get in under the nets), aphids, you name it, I’m squishing it. So after today I can hope that the butterflies don’t get in under these nets and do their deeds. 
It looks quite bulky as I had to overlay another net over the top as I was patching the area with bits of butterfly net. And it’s voluminous. This used to be my deer and hare net back before I put up the fence. So it’s great to recycle it. But I wish it were a little less bulky.
I’ll be tripping over them in the growing season.
And speaking of tripping. Here is an action shot of Artur calf surfing. He always wants me to sit down so he can climb on my lap. But I was, frankly, rather busy.
So this is his Plan B.
If I’m kneeling down he sneaks up behind me and leaps onto the backs of my legs. He settles down and can cling on for ages, even if I squirm.
He loves it.
Eventually he heads off, pleased to have participated in bothering me and also getting a bit of attention. He supervised most of the hammering of the stakes and the draping of the nets from the safe distance of the path.
He is not pleased he cannot reach me when all the nets are in place. So if I am really cross with him I can crawl in here and be safe. There are thirty brassica plants in the three beds: kailaan, kale, summer cabbage, and summer sprouting broccoli. 
So that’s one more crop in the ground. All I need to do is repair the nets up at the top potager and get about thirty more plants in there.
And if you ever wondered what is the point of large lawns? Why, that’s where you lay out all your nets which have been shoved in a bag all season and need knitting together.