So far I've been going out every couple of days and patrolling for leaf miners in the chard. Now they are covered with fine netting (from the fabric store). Assuming I haven't trapped any of the flies inside, I should have lots of nice clean leaves.
We're getting lots of strawberries now, so I've removed the netting. The squirrels can still steal one now and then and we won't notice.
And lastly, I've noticed that the peppers and aubergines are looking a bit pale. So I put about 3/4 of a cup of alfalfa meal around each one and scratched it in. Maybe a little nitrogen will give them a boost. I suspect the leaves I turned in just before I planted them are stealing nitrogen as they break down. I guess I won't do that again.
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