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Two recommendations.
Noticed how when you are digging you are soon joined by a Robin,
who dives down to claim any revealed (small) worms/insects?
No Robins? Put up a nesting box.
Robins & Blackbirds love sorting through mulch for tasty proteinaceous snacks.
Do you have the space/soil depth to bury some hefty logs?
These, if you are lucky, will encourage a variety of beetles.
Beetles love to eat slugs, especially those tiny 3/4mm long black slugs that thrive in a mulched garden. You know someone who can offer you some (cut to 9 inches long) logs.
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@mashton
Christmas is done, and I'm beginning to dream of spring and the garden blooming into life. The tentative shoots of the spring flowering bulbs poking up are giving me a lovely rush of hope.
I've done a tonne of mulching with horse manure and bark chippings, hard work but it feels like something that will repay me in spades next year.
My thoughts are turning to some flowers for the year ahead and I am determined to succeed with lupins this year. First issue is slug and snail protection. I think I am going to try a garlic drench this time - does anyone have any success or failure stories with this technique?
I would also like to try and grow some lupins in a container, as well as a border, but I am concerned about the root depth. Again, does anyone have successes to report?