Anyone with an allotment?

In some places they use smoke to pacify bees (you can do the same with tarantulas).

So I'd be tempted to grab a pouch of cutters choice and make some sort of reverse bong to smoke them first before bagging them.

With reference to my previous answer, anyone is welcome to give this a go.

I'll be putting in spuds & shifting manure further down the plot today.

Braved the shed, now keeping distant.

Spuds in, sweaty work

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Just popped over to the plot in the pissing rain to catch all the slugs/snails. I'm using nematodes, beer traps and relocating them but the numbers don't seem to be dwindling. Spotted a few people have resorted to pellets.

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Any tips how to use green onions?

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a few people have resorted to pellets.

You can get grain and iron based pellets which shouldn't be harmful to animals up the food chain/negligible for the soil.

Stick on Booker T. & The MG's, then slice thinly and fry over a low heat.

Can you procure the services of some Hedgehogs & Toads?

I've stuck a pond in but the toads are down the other end of the allotments and haven't found it yet. Hopefully they'll get there. Sadly no hedgehogs in Peckham, shame the foxes don't eat them. Will look into better pellets as I'm planning to actually plant stuff this weekend.

terrible screengrab from a bit of video, but i found 7 slow worms under one slab on our plot yesterday. hoping theyre going for the slugs rather than the earthworms we have employed to create compost

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I’ll give that a go 👍🏻

Awesome! That in London?

No, we’re down in Worthing. Our plot neighbours have sand lizards apparently, that’s what I’m aspiring to

We have lots of lizards. Very few slugs and snails.

Do ponds really make a difference when it comes to slug management? We haven’t put one in so far and don’t really know where I’d put it. Others have them and do attract frogs on our site(being right next to a canal probably helps).

My plot is next to a big pond. Often see frogs, never seen a slug. A fair few snails but they don’t seem to cause too much trouble.

Copped a 6x8 greenhouse. It's going to have to replace our shed and we're on a bit of a slope so imagine I'm going to have to put some effort into the base. Got plenty of spare paving slabs, will that be sufficient?

will that be sufficient?

Yes.

Probably worth putting some effort into getting it all level. If you want to make it neater, get the grout gaps even and then brush kiln dried sand in.

seconded - its also worth spending time to make sure the framework is all straight too. Ours was a bit of a fight to put up, and we now have lots of parallelogram-shaped windows that are hard to get glass into

The annual sacrifice to the slugs was commenced today.

Will direct sow more seeds once these seedlings are destroyed next week.

In other news, cleared down 1/2 of the overgrown bed.

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The annual sacrifice to the slugs was commenced today.

Same, I’ve just been awoken by the rain and my first thought was ‘there goes the beans’.

Hopefully I’ve put in enough that some will survive, at least I have a net bursting with strawberries to ease my sorrows.

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Bought some pellets, planted out my dwarf beans, squashes and peas and popped over to see the damage this morning after the rain. Nothing nibbled and the snail collection was a third of last week. Winning at last!

I think that’s purely down to your persistence re-homing the slippery sods, well done.

Not too bad re slug damage at ours today(hadn't visited all week) but looks like they got most of the sweetcorn. Need to top up the beer traps but chucked a few pellets around today. Am I right in thinking I should just start chucking seeds in random gaps now as pretty much anything should grow ok?

Where can I get butterfly net for my brassicas off the roll? Was in the garden centre this morning but couldn’t find anything wider than 2m. Hoping to cover a bed that’s 3x3m, pref ending up about waist high.

Would also like to know this info

Chucked some radish seeds in last week and they've popped up so go for it.

Just had our annual meeting, nothing too weird just usual people arguing over gardening styles (someone does forest gardening, someone thinks this is just lazy and full of weeds), little bit of politics and people suggesting things but refusing to volunteer to help with them. Council were meant to come but didn't. They promised to cut back the trees that shade one side of the plots over a year ago and the gits haven't done a thing. Thankfully doesn't affect my end.