Tuesday 15 May 2007

Slugs Ate My Collective Farm Woman

Well you turn your back for a minute. Several days actually. Because it's raining and because there is stuff to be done inside and before you know it your crops are devoured. It's goodbye Collective Farm Woman Melon, goodbye Gigante Liscio Tomatoes and goodbye brave solitary little Heatwave Chilli.

There you are rain and neglect it leads to slugs you heard it here.

We're keeping an eye out for colorado beetles (they call them doryphores here) The only way to deal with them apparently is to pick them off the potatoes and squish them although we might see if the Dinnerladies fancy picking them off and eating them. (Big event this weekend we got a double yolk egg!)

Everytime someone mentions colorado beetle it takes me back to standing in the post office with my gran while she was waiting to collect her pension. There was always a poster of a colorado beetle and details of who to contact if this scourge of potatoes was spotted. This was in a part of Leeds where the houses all led straight onto the street or if they were posh, had a couple of feet of earth and a privet hedge. I always hoped to spot one so I could call out The Man From The Ministry but surprise surprise I never did.

There wasa cobblers shop next to the post office I can smell it now or it could be the dog.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

get some slug pelletts it will sort them out or a trench of sand around the growing beds (the second one was just a guess) MARTIN

Breezy said...

Martin how could you!

Anonymous said...

after seeking further advice you should put some beer in a jam jar bury it up to the lip and like ME they would be attracted to the smell fall in and drown (a lovely way to go i think)yours MARTIN

Breezy said...

As long as I could fence out Tech Support I don't like to see him laying facedown in the garden when there's work to be done

La Ferme de Sourrou said...

Our chickens usually clear them up, but this year's been really bad for snails and slugs.

We even had Peggy our sow searching for them the other night when she got out. I wouldn't recommend that for the potager though !

Breezy said...

No the neighbours are worried enough about the chickens eating all our veg!

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