very professional looking allotment

[Andy Hamilton]

I was told the other day that I had a very professional looking allotment. Really did make my day.

[Camile]

Show us a picture then luv!

[Andy Hamilton]

Show us a picture then luv!

Will do when I get a camera at the end of the month.

[Camile]

Cool ..

thanks for that .. it's so much nicer to see it in picture ..

have you seen mine ? it doesn't look that bad does it ? except that it's almost empty of any veggies !

Camile

[Andy Hamilton]

Cool ..

thanks for that .. it's so much nicer to see it in picture ..

have you seen mine ? it doesn't look that bad does it ? except that it's almost empty of any veggies !

Camile

Looks good, are you the carpenter?

I have one raised bed on mine with a courgette plant in it. I wish I could say two courgettes pants but there is a space where the other should go as the b@**&d slugs keep eating it. I am about to put my third one there.

[Camile]

Indeed I'm the carpenter .. it's fairly straight forward to do ..

I emphatise for the courgettes because I had 3 planted .. and only one of them left ... bl£$$y slugs indeed !

but since I surrounded every beds with ashes .. and installed a few beer trap .. and let the slug control team (couple of chicks) .. I don't have a problem anymore ...

[Andy Hamilton]

Our slow worm seems to have given birth, I have had the dilema of shoud I leave long grass in certain areas that attract slugs for the slow worms or do I pull it up. I chose to leave some in the end. This hot weather is certainly helping to keep the population down too.

I think that the beer trap does seem to be one of the best ways, egg shells don't seem to work that well.

[Millymollymandy]

Camile - I LOVE your avatar!!! It's so true!

[Camile]

Good morning ...

So you have a couple of slow worms living on your allotment ?

Sounds like great organic slug management .. are they realy effective ?

I'd never heard of them before ... and just checked this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/f ... /281.shtml

And they sound brilliant ... how do you manage to keep them in your allotie ?

Thanks M3, got the avatar of the web .. and it's so true indeed ... but still far away from the real thing .. because you would need to had a goat and sheep pushing you when you try to feed the chicks .. plus the dog and all ..

Feel free to use it if you want ..

Camile

[Andy Hamilton]

As I don't use any pesticides or pellets on the allotment I am sure that helps. There are a few areas of long grass around the allotment and they need that. Also they seem to love the compost bin on top of that we have three frogs that visit, I will have to put in a pond soon and keep them there.

They were just on the allotment when I moved in, I think that the large number of slugs and snails also atracts them. We still have a problem with slugs and snails but I hate to think what it would be like without the sloes and frogs.