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As per last month, Slugs and snails continued to decimate
everything in sight despite a newly laid application of Slug Stoppa. We had very
few rainy days but nights were cooler and mornings were misty with a definite
feeling that Autumn is just around the corner.
On the plots that were re-sown with successional vegetables
like lettuces, the slugs and I had a field day. They devoured anything as soon
as it produced two pairs of leaves and I, in turn, was able to collect hundreds
of the things and murder them in my salt water bucket.
The peas and beans suffered particularly badly and I have
abandoned trying to grow any more than the original sowings as we are running
out of season fairly quickly. I will be sowing a row or two of
"Meteor" in September or October but they should lay safely in the
ground until emergence in February next year. The sweet peas have also been
completely ruined although those growing in the rose beds are almost unharmed.
There are obviously more tender morsels to pillage so I may plant a row of
sacrificial lettuces around them next year.
Cauliflowers and Brussels have been similarly shredded and I
have found several slugs in the tops, still munching happily away as late as 11
a.m. Caterpillars have also been a nuisance but it is still slugs that are
causing the most damage.
in Summary, yet again, Slug Stoppa is providing no defence
whatsoever.
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