Those slugs were MASSIVE! 😳😳😳 Delilah was so cute with the balls on the canes. Not sure the mesh is worth having up with the rule you have. 😅😅 Plot is coming along so well.

@Littlesheddiaries

28 күн бұрын

I think I might just take it down

@TheFarmyardGarden

28 күн бұрын

@@Littlesheddiaries it’ll keep birds out though, so still useful and I’m sure it’ll make it harder for butterflies, just not impossible.

😮😮 slugs oh lord I thought we have had no no no rain that slugs would be very few. But apparently I put all ,y tomatoes in the slug pathway 🤬🤬. So I’ll have to put more out soon. I’m hopeful the spare ones will be bigger and healthier. Funny you said that Jason at Allotment of the Dead said someone (yes someone actually had time to do this 😂😂) put a paint dot on snails moved them miles off and they made it back. Fricking homing slugs and snails 🐌 so bath it is 🤷‍♀️. But take a moment to pat yourselves on the back yiu have accomplished so much in such a short time Clare 👍👍👍. Tucked in safe and sound from the birds 🐦 not the veg I meant the slugs. Have a super weekend Clare, Ali 🌞🇨🇦

@Littlesheddiaries

29 күн бұрын

Oh Ali, they’re a pain aren’t they! Good luck with round two of the tomatoes. Mine are safe at home, I have four frogs in my pond and no slug damage to any plants. I’m planning on transplanting the tomorrows this weekend, so maybe I’ll just take half up to the allotment. I think I’ll be building a little pond up there and re-homing a couple of my frogs 🐸

🐝thanks for the great video🌻

@Littlesheddiaries

25 күн бұрын

Thank you for your lovely positive comment. Happy gardening 😊

Arggg!!! slugs; as it has been raining here for months they abound. I used the wood at first to start off my no dig raised beds and then removed after a couple of years. With comfrey I also just lay the leaves down round the plants and also chop it down at least once and put the whole lot on the compost heap. i can do this as I have 3 established plants and always leave on in flower for the bees, My daughter and I have just this morning been down the allotment doing a similar thing with netting to stop the birds pulling up our sweetcorn we have just transplanted in case they think they are worms. My solution to slugs is to plant a sacrificial crop of tender greens around the outside till the brassicas get going and just lit nature take its course.

@Littlesheddiaries

29 күн бұрын

That’s a good idea, I’ve got lots of spare lettuce seeds I could put around the edge. I’ll sow some tomorrow and put my replacement brassicas out in a few weeks. Thanks for that idea 👍

Best slug barrier is copper. Slugs won't touch copper. I use scraps of copper window screen around the base of seedlings and even staple a strip around raised strawberry beds..

@Littlesheddiaries

25 күн бұрын

I’ll have a look on Amazon, thanks

Hi Claire I hope you're seedlings survive the slug onslaught 🤞 you can make a homemade nematode solution that you can water over everything and it will kill the slugs. Tony O'Neil has a video on how to do it.👌🙏💪👍

@Littlesheddiaries

29 күн бұрын

I’m trying to be kind and not kill them but can feel my motivation slipping 😆🐌

@nickthegardener.1120

29 күн бұрын

@@Littlesheddiaries I don't kill slugs I just relocate them at the other end of the garden. I don't do anything at the allotment, I like nature to be balanced so I don't interfere. 👍💪👌🙏😁

@RichardTaylorgardening

25 күн бұрын

Ok 50 years ago i noticed slugs and snails did not live in the bramble and nettle patch so i e been chopping up nettles and brambles using as a mulch works for me happy gardening Richardx btw subbed

@Littlesheddiaries

25 күн бұрын

@richardtaylor7259 hello Richard, that’s a brilliant idea. I imagine the nettles would be good for the soil as they breakdown, and they’re free. I’m going to try it. Thanks for subscribing 😊

Would have thought that it’s a little early to have to worry about cabbage whites yet, anyhow, put the netting down to the ground and in the evening roll the bottom 6 inches up and peg it in place with clothes pegs and then let it down in the morning. That is, if your plot is near your house. Also regarding slugs, we go out every night around 10 o’clock and gather up the slugs or scissor them. Usually they are under control in about three weeks. Lots of uTube videos on breaking down pallets, unfortunately for me there are no pallets easily available to us around here. Good luck for the rest of the season.

@Catsrule7

26 күн бұрын

Nope, not too early. Removed a load of caterpillars yesterday from my cabbages ( and slugs too).

@Littlesheddiaries

25 күн бұрын

Ohh nooo! I’m going up after tomorrow to check (working a long day tomorrow)

@Littlesheddiaries

25 күн бұрын

Unfortunately I have to drive for about 15 minutes to the plot, but I do like that idea. I think I might do it on my days off. It would be nicer if it was closer to home, but I wouldn’t swap the location because the view is so amazing up there. Hoping to get a few sheep fleeces soon to put around the plants.

Oh Clare, we even borrowed a pallet breaker and still struggled to take the pallets apart. Comfrey or nettle tea definitely smells like a sewer but does wonderful for the garden. This year I’ve done seaweed tea and left the comfrey to go in the compost and to cut and drop around plants. We are so lucky not to have many slugs, the odd snail 🐌 but so grateful for the no dig beds without wooded sides. They are a haven for slugs. Beer traps maybe. How strange you have a policy to raise your netting, our site is very hedgehog friends but we allowed netting to the ground…. Don’t have fruit or brassica cages on your site ?? Keep smiling Allie & Tricia xx

@Littlesheddiaries

28 күн бұрын

People are supposed to put boards at the base of netting if it goes to the ground so the hedgehogs don’t get tangled in it. I’m thinking of putting in a little pond on the plot and relocating some of my frogs. They’d have a feast!

Hi Clare, this is my fist time watching your content and I can empathise with your pest situation. We bought a run-down, neglected little farm about a decade ago and everything I tried to grow was eaten almost immediately by the many varieties of slug and snail infesting the property. Even mowing the 'lawn' left a trail of wet, black slugs exposed in the tatty grass and hundreds of white snails fleeing up fence posts only to descend in the night to inflict carnage on everything green in the garden. Now I have ducks. I find the little bantam ducks (I use crossbred Elizabeth ducks) best for the veggie patch. I let them spend a few days in the beds, which I wet for them _before_ I plant. This lets them winkle out all the adult slugs and wetting the beds then allows them to filter out any eggs buried in the soil and along borders. I then let them on again in a few weeks when the veggies are taller than the ducks and won't get trampled, then again after harvest. The duck's used bedding makes the best compost. I don't have a slug or snail problem anymore. I do have fat, happy little ducks!

@Littlesheddiaries

26 күн бұрын

Hello, the ducks sound fabulous! A wonderful way to keep the slugs under control. Do you get nice eggs from them? I can’t have ducks sadly, but I have frogs in a little pond at home. I might make a wildlife pond on the allotment and transfer some frogs up there. My plants at home rarely get eaten as the frogs and the hedgehogs under a shed eat the slugs. I like the idea of natural solutions. Thanks for sharing your story, it made me smile imaging all the little ducks.

@anserbauer309

25 күн бұрын

@@Littlesheddiaries The bantam ducks aren't such prolific layers compared to some of the larger breeds, but their little eggs are quite lovely and make delicious custard! I think your wildlife pond on the allotment idea sounds brilliant. With a few hidey-holes, grasses and rocks around the edge of it, wild, slug-eating animals will have a reason to hang around and help you out with the pests!

@Littlesheddiaries

25 күн бұрын

@anserbauer309 the bantams sound lovely 😊

Slugs love egg shells

@Littlesheddiaries

15 күн бұрын

They certainly seem to like sliding over the ones I put down and chomping on my ranunculus 🥚🥚

I am having a rest in the shed after weeding and slug hunting . Scared to plant out till I've got a few more of em

@Littlesheddiaries

29 күн бұрын

I don’t blame you Jimmy, guard them with your life!

Butterflies will definitely get under your netting

@Littlesheddiaries

29 күн бұрын

I’m doomed 😆

Slugs seem mutant this year not sure what’s going on I find egg shells don’t work at all for me 😊 Good luck

@Littlesheddiaries

25 күн бұрын

I’m rapidly figuring that out as well! The egg shells aren’t working but at least they’ll break down and feed the soil. I might splash out and try strulch next

The latest slug pellets not containing methadahyde (excuse spelling) is crap, new pellets based on some iron rubbish is, I've found, to be slug food they eat all the slug pellets and return for more, so much for the organic alternative.

@Littlesheddiaries

21 күн бұрын

I’ll keep you posted about how Strulch works, I just put some down today. A bit pricey but thought I’d give it a go. Have you tried it?