So, Tell Us, What Are Ye All At In The Veg Garden?

[LaraCroft 863]

jok - please excuse the ignorance, most ( ok, well 95% ! ) of this is new to me, is the diesel wiped outside the tunnel, or inside, or both ? I go around the tunnel at last thing ( about 10pm when I take the dog out ) to check for bugs and slugs, and collect them in a pot for the chickens, and do the same first thing, about 0500. I have tried to keep a bare patch of earth on the 4 sides of the tunnel, I can treat that area with whatever is likely to help - it is already gravel but they seem to have 4x4 capability and zoom straight over it

[forest of dean redneck 11,692]

Supposed to be bad year for flies an slugs due to mild winter.

[LaraCroft 863]

They are certainly bad this year FODR - never seen them in such numbers before

[Treehands. 1,379]

Try lengths of copper pipe, I always have a copper collar around the hostas ....no slug damage....

Failing that , try road salt in an old gutter to surround the bed.

[sky10 11]

i think ill try that road salt thanks for that tip never thought of that and the way the slugs are this year ill need a gritter to come and do it for me

[martyn2233 2,645]

Has anyone grown honeydew melons are they easy to do?

[devon flighter 421]

not quite ! but done sweetheart ok year before last ,had 12 fruit off 3 plants and trying them again this year!

[jok 3,317]

Lara. A diesel wipe round the perimeter. That's it. The buggers do not like it. Mind you, anything on the plot won't leave.

[jok 3,317]

Copper pipe? Not round here. It'd be weighed in within minutes

[vfr400boy 3,456]

Yesterday I planted out calabrese red cabbage beetroot and lettuce just hope we have no more frosts

[terryd 8,552]

Things queuing up at home

 

 

 

 

 

so planted out some cabbage and sprout both club root resistant varieties

 

 

the ground was still sodden after a monster shower we had friday afternoon

 

 

strawberries flowering. Once they have fruited I might dig the lot up and get that grass out of there

 

 

 

spuds up and away shame the frosts nipped them and knocked them back

 

 

onions and some spinach that half the row seems to have gone. Slugs or birds

 

 

broadbeans been weviled the netting can come off next time

 

rows of parsnip interlaced with radish

 

 

peas

 

 

rhubarb happy and doing well

 

 

[darbo 4,776]

The hens are laying well 15 this morning. Did a lot of transplanting everything going ok up to now.

[LaraCroft 863]

Jok - thank you - have done the wiping. I now smell like my truck - good luck the people I have to treat in A/E at work tonight ! Maybe it will work for them as well as slugs, and I will have a quiet one. Fingers crossed !

[forest of dean redneck 11,692]

Jok - thank you - have done the wiping. I now smell like my truck - good luck the people I have to treat in A/E at work tonight ! Maybe it will work for them as well as slugs, and I will have a quiet one. Fingers crossed !

 

Jok forgot to tell you it only works with red diesel

[forest of dean redneck 11,692]

 

 

That's my allotment taken today,I need to fix my gate/dividing fence and buy some garden gloves so I can remove the stinging nettles around fence line and on the bit by the weed bins. I just put in 16 czar runner beans and about 13 broad beans,the potatoes are feral ones ,I thought I had removed them all last year,so left them where they are,lazy I know, the barnevelders in back garden are laying well,though there's always a dark coloured one trying to go broody,I suspect the same one, I'm hoping to rebuild their run ,making it longer to give them more space.