Feast

Last week when I ventured out to our vegetable patch, I was devastated to see a very hungry critter/creature had enjoyed a feast on my much loved growing purple cabbages, mostly the outer leaves were untouched, the middle and some of the newer leaves had been eaten - obviously quite delicious for the offending critter/creature!!

Below is how my precious purple cabbages looked only 5 days before the above photo.

So, after some huffing and puffing, and a little cursing, (I like to think of it as a reaction to growing-your-own-veg-only-to-be-utterly-disappointed-by-the-hunger-of-a-self-indulging-critter), I calmed down, had a closer inspection of the damage and a quiet think about things.

I am not sure if it is snails, slugs, possums, or possibly a rat!!

I decided it was time to take some preventative measures into place, albeit environmentally friendly but hopefully keeping the offending critter off MY PURPLE CABBAGES!!!

Firstly, I did an almost midnight dash with the torch to the vegetable patch hoping to discover any sign of the offending critter/creature - nothing observed.....

 So the next option I decided to try was the crushed egg shells tactic....

and so far, so good. No more cabbage leaves have been eaten! 

I am not sure if the success so far is the effectiveness of the egg shells or the fact that there isn't much left there to eat!! I am hoping that my precious purple cabbages recover to produce us with a feast!