How strange...
that we have temperatures in the thirties and a hailstorm! However I managed to attack another patch of my wilderness which is the vegetable patch. I have planted a lot of extremely late salad crops in the hope that I will attain some kind of home grown crop. Watch this space - I bet we get early frosts this autumn!!
The scents in the shrubbery continue to fill the garden, the philadelphus is just finishing, but the jasmin is now taking over with a vengenance. I love the way the scents fill the air - one of the best things in life. (Well, choco;ate runs a close second!)
I couldn't resist adding this, there is the most beautiful gibbous moon out there tonight. I have just been out on a slug crawl, the crop was not many but they were the big uns!
The scents in the shrubbery continue to fill the garden, the philadelphus is just finishing, but the jasmin is now taking over with a vengenance. I love the way the scents fill the air - one of the best things in life. (Well, choco;ate runs a close second!)
I couldn't resist adding this, there is the most beautiful gibbous moon out there tonight. I have just been out on a slug crawl, the crop was not many but they were the big uns!
posted by Liz at 20:09
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Slug crawl .... hmmm .... and what do you do with these slugs? Why is a slug crawl necessary?
I am trying to grow vegetables in my garden again; they germinate womderfully well, then the slugs come along and graze on them, so I have very little to eat!! Consequently I go out at night,pick them up put them in salty water, so they live no loonger but the crops stand a chance of growing to maturity.
The mice also eat the seeds of the peas and beans, but I have not yet found a reliable way of sortin gthem out!
I try and make sure all my customers have a Philodephus in their garden - I love it!
Tami, the slug will eat anything that is young and green, they make mincemeat of a lot of young vegetable crops, and are just a pain! They are a mouth on a foot, and are horrid to boot. Another way of killing them is to snip them in half with a pair of scissors (yuk).
Sis, I believe that if you soak the pea seeds in parafin they discourage the mice (old gardeners tale!).
This is very interesting. I had no idea what slugs ate. I don't think I could snip them in half. How about tossing them in the neighbor's garden? (Evil Laugh!)
I've tried that - but they can crawl back from quite a distance - like 100yds!! I can't do the snipping, so soaking them in brine, then putting them in the compost heap for their brothers and sisters to eat them is quite convenient!
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