How does that happen, you go to bed with a dry day forecast and a long list of jobs and you get up and they have changed the forecst to match the weather.
Wintersong your garden is very tidy, mine is currently looking a little windswept.
I did a slug run last night, got loads f them plus 5 cutworms, not sure my lupins will survive if it keeps raining.
@Kate1123, talking of slugs and snails...not sure if it's my imagination or what, but I am observing a general indifference to the pellets I'm using (best on the market!) This morning's peruse around my patch caught me seven snails in my Sisyrinchium and a massive fat slug in my Phormium all of which were living quite happily next to the poisonous pellets! I always try to scatter them right inside susceptible plants so as to keep them away from foraging birds etc.
Wintersong I have to admit that slugs are not normally a huge problem for me, it is so dry here, this april has been a bit of a shock. I have had success with my beer traps and I do like a slug run at night.
Geoff I do not expect them to get forecasting right on a 3 month basis but overnight seems a little simpler. I'm forever blowing bubbles.
This is going to carry on for the next 36 hours-when I checked this morning Wednesday was looking good now it says showers-on the positive side the rain will be warmer after Sunday.
Wintersong are you using the blue pellets or the the wildlife friendly ones-I confess still to be using the blue ones.
I am not keen on using slug pellets unless I really have to - well- something was lurking in my greenhouse on the shelf somewhere. It munched 4 tomato plants leaving just the stalk,enjoyed 3 Celeriac seedlings then for pudding 6 Ageratum seedlings
I searched every tray and nook and cranny but couldn't find the culprit so resorted to putting some slug pellets around. Next morning there was the huuugest big black slug dead! They are very good at hiding aren't they!!!!
Barry is itching to get back down the allotment to put his potatoes and seeds in
@Sotongeoff, yes I'm using the blue ones. As I said, I try to limit them to deep under foliage or right in the depths of things like Phormium and Sisyrinchium where I've never seen a bird plunder. (I also believe..think...remember reading somewhere maybe...that they are specifically coloured blue to stop birds and wild mammals eating them). This does not include pet dogs.
Once the rain stops......I'll make up a Garlic solution to use the rest of the season, I'm trying very very hard to be organic as possible with piles of grit on susceptible plants, although I guess I could try harder with those late night slug hunts.
Maybe I just expect too much this year? My garden is the fullest its ever been this year and I wonder that for every plant I buy or propagate, I must expect an increase in SS population.
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I saw it too, it was beautiful and the first this year!
How does that happen, you go to bed with a dry day forecast and a long list of jobs and you get up and they have changed the forecst to match the weather.
Wintersong your garden is very tidy, mine is currently looking a little windswept.
I did a slug run last night, got loads f them plus 5 cutworms, not sure my lupins will survive if it keeps raining.
Mm-they got today wrong-I had plans for this morning outside as well.
The tension is building-there is a lot of red and white to be seen already
@Kate1123, talking of slugs and snails...not sure if it's my imagination or what, but I am observing a general indifference to the pellets I'm using (best on the market!) This morning's peruse around my patch caught me seven snails in my Sisyrinchium and a massive fat slug in my Phormium all of which were living quite happily next to the poisonous pellets! I always try to scatter them right inside susceptible plants so as to keep them away from foraging birds etc.
Anyone else making similar observations?
Wintersong I have to admit that slugs are not normally a huge problem for me, it is so dry here, this april has been a bit of a shock. I have had success with my beer traps and I do like a slug run at night.
Geoff I do not expect them to get forecasting right on a 3 month basis but overnight seems a little simpler. I'm forever blowing bubbles.
This is going to carry on for the next 36 hours-when I checked this morning Wednesday was looking good now it says showers-on the positive side the rain will be warmer after Sunday.
Wintersong are you using the blue pellets or the the wildlife friendly ones-I confess still to be using the blue ones.
I am not keen on using slug pellets unless I really have to - well- something was lurking in my greenhouse on the shelf somewhere. It munched 4 tomato plants leaving just the stalk,enjoyed 3 Celeriac seedlings then for pudding 6 Ageratum seedlings
I searched every tray and nook and cranny but couldn't find the culprit so resorted to putting some slug pellets around. Next morning there was the huuugest big black slug dead! They are very good at hiding aren't they!!!!
Barry is itching to get back down the allotment to put his potatoes and seeds in
Pam x
@Sotongeoff, yes I'm using the blue ones. As I said, I try to limit them to deep under foliage or right in the depths of things like Phormium and Sisyrinchium where I've never seen a bird plunder. (I also believe..think...remember reading somewhere maybe...that they are specifically coloured blue to stop birds and wild mammals eating them). This does not include pet dogs.
Once the rain stops...
...I'll make up a Garlic solution to use the rest of the season, I'm trying very very hard to be organic as possible with piles of grit on susceptible plants, although I guess I could try harder with those late night slug hunts.
Maybe I just expect too much this year? My garden is the fullest its ever been this year and I wonder that for every plant I buy or propagate, I must expect an increase in SS population.
Congratulations Geoff
. Are you going to be out on the street tooting your car horn etc 
(from a Leeds fan
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PS: They got the weather forecast wrong here as well!!
A happy day in Southampton even if it is raining, party at Geoffs
