The trials and tribulations of being a horticulturalist in Britain are so real. When is it not too wet, too dry, too warm or too cold. I put off sowing most things this year due to the late spring/summer. We had 5 mins of hale stones that dashed my lettuce to pieces last week, My toms are doing well as are my tree raspberries and cherry trees. At least your sweet peas look healthy! I love the scent they give off. Hope the rest of the season goes better for you!

@oddsocksgrowing

6 күн бұрын

Me too love sweet peas. Yup uk weather can be so temperamental 😩. But its good that certain fruits and veg are doing great 👍 so that's always a bonus

I feel you. I gathered around 2 thousand slugs over the last 2 months.Next Year I will test out nematodes: I only won the battle, because its my garden and not an alotment and I was out every time when it rained and also in the evenings doing rounds like in one of those old arcarde computer games farming enemy invader spots. When I was closing my eyes I saw those brown naked slugs.

@oddsocksgrowing

8 күн бұрын

😂 I feel you. It really does get like that. I removed quiet a few each night. When I went down to check the chickens. But fair play to you on removing so many yourself. Hats off to you 👏

😂😂 I knew you were comedic but this even though tragic was you keeping your sense of humour. Because if we didn’t we’d cry 😢. Trials and tribulation this year for everyone. My beans are small my tomatoes are eaten but hey no I got a fab few news spuds. Keep smiling Helen it’s part of what makes you who you are ❤, Ali 🌞🇨🇦

@oddsocksgrowing

6 күн бұрын

That's it isn't it. Keep our heads up and a sense of humour 😂. It's not all perfect greens ☺️

You have taken it so well,I would have been in tears 😢

@oddsocksgrowing

3 күн бұрын

It's just one of those things. Sometimes we have no control. 😳

Hi there I'm Bonita from Cape Town South Africa for snails and slugs you need to put a bowl with beer in your garden they will drown in it

@oddsocksgrowing

7 күн бұрын

Yup. I use beer traps on my plot too. Just alot of slugs and snails this year

I spent such a lot of time pulling those damn mares tails😮

@oddsocksgrowing

3 күн бұрын

It's the never ending job 😭😂

Really sorry to see they have done that much damage. I can understand how much it is both frustrating and heartbreaking for you. I have seen a lot of people talk about squash and cucurbits either not germinating or being eaten. I have also re-sown many a times to get what we have in the beds. Once out, one of the cucumbers died in the cold snap and one courgette had been eaten in the garden. I just up potted a Thai dragon that i keep indoors and now it is all droopy and at deaths door! I am just a bit worried as the chilli plants these are from and i over wintered for 3 yrs have died. Only one of our red hot chilli peppers have survived. I have put it on the morning sun side for now and not going to water it for a bit. Our overwinter ginger plants have been eaten since planting out so i need to dig it up to either save or use. Given up on lemon grass this season. Our hard neck garlic is looking like spring onions but i pulled up the soft neck we sowed from saved cloves and it is mostly ok but small. The sprout have aphids but i haven't seen any cabbage moths this year nor wasps. No butterflies. We had a few ladybirds and bees but that was before the cold snap in June. It's like we are a month late on things this year. We don't grow broad beans but are you not meant to remove the tops in May or something before the blackfly gets in? Do they taste better home grown? I have never been a fan, like with butter beans. Jane's Growing Garden learnt that if the beans are pointing down that they are ready to harvest. Does airing them out of foliage and beans at the bottom help out with the slugs? Our strawberries and raspberries are doing well this year. Since we saw a half eaten strawberry, we have been more vigilant about picking the fruit. We have some blue tits make a nest in our old cold frame pipe hole and can hear the babies. I think we had rats or maybe a squrrel, which is rare make hole tunnels around the sprouts but i think we have scared them off now. Something is still digging in the hanging baskets. Can birds do this like a dust bath? I don't like to get apolitical but the middle east have admitted to cloud seeding now and i feel somewhat annoyed that there isn't a class action going on as surely that is technically classed as bio warfare. It would have conveyed better if you put your segment from the end in the middle before going on to the good stuff going on in the garden as it could be construed as everything has failed imo. Not a nag but would have flowed better and lifted the mood of the negatives. Anyway, take care and love to see an update on the things you are sowing and a weeding update. You got this!

@oddsocksgrowing

7 күн бұрын

You've obviously been busy. As for the broad beans we no longer take the tops off in general. It never really worked in all the years of me doing it. So this year I'm not. Kind of using it to boost the ladybird population 👍

@AnyKeyLady

6 күн бұрын

@@oddsocksgrowing Ah ok fair enough. Yes we need more ladybirds.

I know the pain of losing hours and hours of gardening work. ☹ I hope you can work things out.

@oddsocksgrowing

7 күн бұрын

Fingers crossed, we will get some crops. To be honest, it is frustrating. But it happens. Sometimes, we win. Sometimes, we lose

Its been a very strange year and all this slug damage is since they banned slug pellets and combined with the mild winter there population has exploded ! I feel for you 😔

@zorraxxus

7 күн бұрын

No, its because of the chemtrails...

@oddsocksgrowing

7 күн бұрын

The wet weather certainly hasn't helped with the slug population this year. That's for certain

Barking mad isn it? Some things that we've tried to grow over the last 3-4 seasons that just havent taken that this year have gone BANG and gone racing away - petit pois, carrots, garlic, onion sets, spuds - and yet others that we've assiduously learned about and look after.... squashes, cucumbers, fennel, some of the brassicas - either stunted, or the seeds didnt take or the bloody slugs had them. And with the tomatoes, boatloads of greenery but not that much fruit. Its mystifying. I wouldnt mind so much if I could put it down to "well, i screwed that up because I did/didnt do x/y/z", but thats not always the case. Drives me mad it does, but just makes me more determined to push on and go for it.

@oddsocksgrowing

7 күн бұрын

That's the attitude to have. Just keep going. For the warmer loving crops, we have not had a great start. If we get a longer summer, then hopefully, it will all turn out well. But as for the slugs 😭.

I can see you are trying to be philosophical about the damage done by slugs and snails but I can also see how it has upset you as it has done to all growers. I just hope we have some drier weather to save all our crops and your lovely plot starts bursting with food to repay all your hard work.

@oddsocksgrowing

7 күн бұрын

I'm sure it will get better. I think we just have to keep our chins up and keep going. Some years are better then others.