How to make a slug pub

There are many ways to get rid of our most despised garden pests and I periodically post ways on how to keep on top of these greedy gastropods. This time though it's the one method I find most successful apart from going out every night with a torch and a bucket of salt water. A Slug pub.

You don't have to use Beer either. Slugs and snails like Yeast and I've tried using dissolved Baking Yeast or Marmite as well in my traps, but the best results I find are definitely with Beer.

There are many variations on a theme to these traps, but I like this one because it filters out the deceased mollusks and you can use the beer again and just top it up if necessary.

Lottie News!

They say March comes in like a lion and out goes like a lamb, but I don't think March got the email as the beginning of April was very much still cold and wintery, but now things have finally begun to warm up, Hurrah!

The Broad Bean flowers were and still are quite beautiful and in one corner of the bed all the flowers have gone a pinky purple colour, which I've never seen before.🤔

This past month I've spent a lot of time in the greenhouse at home mainly potting on plants and seedlings for the fair, but also fiddling about with tiny onion seedlings, which takes an age. The greenhouse at the moment is absolutely packed!

All my Brassicas were cut down as they had finished producing and had started to go to seed. Purple Sprouting Broccoli, Kalettes, Curly Kale and Cavelo Nero and not before time as the PSB had quite a bit of White Blister, which is a fungus and it's spores can spread on the wind. The rest had those horrible grey Cabbage Aphids.

Not a job I like doing, but I thinned out my Pears properly this time. Last year I only did it a bit and I ended up with lots of Pears, but they were small and a real bugger to peel and core for freezing which is what I ended up doing with them.

My hanging baskets in the poly tunnel had my Tumbling Tom Tomatoes planted in them. This time only one plant per basket. Last year I did two in each and I think they were a bit over crowded.

After digging up my old inherited Red Current bush I now had space to put my two new compost bins that I'd treated myself to. The Geezer hubby has done a brilliant job of putting them together and they will soon have lids to them as well.

And I thought things had been a bit quiet with the foxes, but I think they must have seen those videos on YouTube of foxes jumping on trampolines in people gardens as they have been jumping all over my netting. Three times they've done it now! 🤬🦊🚫