I’ve largely resigned myself to the idea of having to net all of my brassicas next year to stop the butterflies getting at them, so my plan was to wait until spring and buy some butterfly net then.
However, by chance I looked at one of the sites I’d earmarked as a possible supplier of netting and they were having an end of season sale with 15% off netting products. Given that prices only seem to be going up (and with some rapidity of late), I decided to flex the credit card and bought 50m of 4m wide netting. I believe that should be sufficient to cover three of my no-dig beds completely. Now I just have to ensure that all the relevant plants end up in the right places rather than dotted about as they are this year.