Yum, had BLTs with tomatoes from the garden for supper.
Something came through and ate ALL the cabbage and broccoli down to an inch of stem.
How depressing!
Bugs are decimating my cabbages and broccoli, so I gave up and applied a systemic pesticide. The powdery stuff wasn’t working. The systemic says it’s ok on vegetables if they are not picked for 21 days. I hope they actually did some testing on that time frame.
Jealous about tomatoes. Sorry to hear about the cabbage and broccoli though. I have read that the advantage to sq ft. gardening is that you plant dissimilar plants in the same bed, and it deters pests from going through a whole row.
So I often don’t plant more than 3 sq ft of one plant in each bed. Except for taters and corn. Have planted 3 x 4 ft areas all the same for those.