Mid June Vegetable Growing Update . Slug Apocalypse.

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23 күн бұрын

Mid June Veg Growing Update and some of the problems.
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@user-vm6fx9ky3i 17 күн бұрын

Dan I bought roscoff onions which cost a fortune and 80 percent have bolted.which is gutting considering all the time and effort put in.slugs have ravished my potatoes which has never happened and the wind has blown loads of leaves off my runners.looks like were all going through the mill this year.Stay strong

@marymcandrew7667 21 күн бұрын

Yes its hard to call it summer! Still wearing a wool jumper and sick of slug damage. Now theyre getting to my ripening strawberries, we have to get picking fast!

@danyoutube7491 20 күн бұрын

I empathise with you strongly, I've emptied my veg bed of productive strawberry plants because the slugs were nibbling at every strawberry that was getting close to ripe. In one area I found a few strawberry 'skins' with a slug inside finishing off the rest of the juicy innards. It's a shame because it was going to be a bumper harvest. I think doing them in pots with copper tape around (perhaps hanging baskets or fence/wall mounted containers would be even better) is the way for me to go in future, if I bother. The slugs have been a pest every year since we moved to this house 5 years ago but this year has been worse than ever and it's making me miserable.

@janking3355 11 күн бұрын

I'm in the states and have the same slug problems! They defoliated so many flowers including my lemon gem marigolds! I didn't think anything ate marigolds! I hope it upset their stomachs! It's been cooler and rainy also, so many of my plants just are not growing, they are waiting for some warm sunny days. I'm trying to grow walla walla onions. Tonight it's raining again! Better luck in July!

@littlegardendiary8513 21 күн бұрын

Hi Dan. Absolutely devastated for you mate and all the other growers as well. My allotment friend has nicknamed this month, 'June-uary'. Little behind you on the onions planting wise, also got ours from Marshalls', so I'll let you know how they get on. Best of luck for the rest of the season Dan. Takes summat to beat us Northerners mate!!💪Catch up soon, Andy and Karen 👍😎

@YamiKisara 11 күн бұрын

You should consider putting some kind of mesh wire or other type of cover on your water barrels so small animals like birds, squirrels or even cats trying to have a drink or just by accident can't fall in and drown.

@alienlifeuk8633 20 күн бұрын

Your allotment is very well laid out, you must have spent a lot of time planting those neat rows, very impressive. I also have lots of slugs and snails.

@derekmulready1523 21 күн бұрын

Remember Slugs and Snails have a 250 meter/yard memory. So just throwing them over the fence won't do. They'll return in 12 hours. Some slugs are Carnivorous. They(brown)suck the life out of the Green type. Another worrying insect imported into Britain. In the 60's. Was the New Zealand *Flat Worm* its diet is Earth Worms. Recently they've been found in Ireland imported from Nurseries England. Northern Ireland and Louth Cavan. Retired Irish allotment holder. 🇮🇪🇪🇺

@mungoboomdecker9711 20 күн бұрын

Never had so many plants ate by slugs and snails than this year. My sister has hedgehogs in her garden and hasn't had any problems.

@myrustygarden 21 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂 flamin June. I think we are all in that club 🤦‍♀️ maybe we should order shirts 😅. I’m not listing what went wrong I’d get writers cramp. Have a better July, Ali 🌧️🌞🇨🇦

@Allotment-diaryUk 21 күн бұрын

Yep, rubbish year all round Mild winter so no pests were killed off and then just never ending rain. Cheers Dan 😊

@NickSBailey 21 күн бұрын

reminding me of some of the cool wet summers we had mid to late 2000s I think we've been spoilt the last decade, next week is looking better 23C day / 15C night for us Monday, your potatoes looking great

@MuddyBootz 21 күн бұрын

Unbelievable temperatures as we approach Midsummers Day 🤣🤣🤣. Had cucumbers and squash die due to cold. For lettuce… take a look at Oakleaf varieties Navara and Smile…. The slugs seem to leave them alone 👍🏻

@tommyhigson6542 21 күн бұрын

All looking good Dan! 💪 I've been quite lucky with the slugs this year. But in recent years I've had a lot of success with using beer traps for the slugs. Might be worth a shot. All the best 🤞

@Allotment-diaryUk 21 күн бұрын

Yeah, I have some 2% coop beer that I wouldn't drink in a million years. Might give it a go. Cheers Dan 😅

@derekmulready1523 21 күн бұрын

The odor can be horrendous. If you tend your allotment every other day or weekly

@laurahirsche3673 15 күн бұрын

This works! Very well, too. With being in a drought, slugs are no worries ❤ from Southern Alberta, Canada

@rhondafarmer4824 20 күн бұрын

I put used toilet rolls under lots of my plants and check them every morning as the slugs and snails hide in them.i throw them into a bucket of vinegar and water then put them in the compost bin. Cheer up and the garden is coming along ok.

@edwardbernthal160 21 күн бұрын

Here also in Denmark we have more slugs than I can remember seeing before, tragic. One strange thing, I have set 4 kinds of potatoes, 2 sorts are plagued with slugs but the French black spuds have no slugs at all. Maybe slugs only go for light green plants, bit like your dark lettuce. Ah well, maybe next year will be better.

@danyoutube7491 20 күн бұрын

As far as I can tell from personal experience, slugs are hard to predict in their tastes. Last year they ate a lot of my blackcurrant leaves, though I suspect that they could smell weakness after aphids had already done a lot of damage to it. On the same night (I was out with my head torch) there were a dozen or so slugs and snails going up the birch tree. For long periods onions and garlic can seem off the menu, then they'll start nibbling at those too. I had some bronze fennel that had overwintered nicely and was just getting going when it was hit by slugs this spring. It bounced back and I thought it was home free, but then this spate of frequent rain that we've had in England came along and the fennel looked as good as dead, so I dug out the root. Since you mentioned potatotes I'll mention the only one I had growing; I must have thrown out some manky ones last year because out of my tiny compost pile was growing a potato plant, quite nicely too. It got a bit of slug damage when it was already well established, but nothing more than that, which is odd because they left it alone until that point and that little compost pile was riddled with slugs.

@edwardbernthal160 20 күн бұрын

@@danyoutube7491 one silver lining here is they have just got a taste for the ground ivy, seems they have gone off ot the lupins and red hot pokers. We really thought that the Iberian slugs were a thing of the past but this year is as bad as I heve ever known it.

@g.y.o5419 21 күн бұрын

Slugs, slugs, slugs! Same problem here in the Midlands. First they ate all the tops off my potatoes and killed them. Ate about 70% of my Red onions, ate all my spring onions, all my french and runner beans, cabbages and kales, cucumbers. Had to re sow most things and just getting them in again. Someone told me about using porridge oats around the base of your plants, with the idea that mr slug comes along and eats it, swells up and dies. Well it maybe just luck, but i did this in my greenhouse around my cucumbers and they not touched them even though there is slime trails all over the place. Today i re planted my runner and french beans outside, sprinkled some oats around the base of them, so fingers crossed! Here is hoping for a long hot dry summer for us all!

@Allotment-diaryUk 21 күн бұрын

Me too. Never seen anything like it. But Winter didn't happen so no slug eggs frozen to death and then just relentless rain for what feels like an eternity. But what we do salvage will be more the merrier. Cheers Dan 🍻

@laurahirsche3673 15 күн бұрын

Can also put crushed eggshells around the base of the plants. Slices them when going in for a meal

@krila7248 21 күн бұрын

Hey Dan, you could try and paint your raised beds with Schnexagon to protect them from the slugs. It's a german product so I don't know if you can get it in the UK, and it won't help against the slugs already IN the beds, but it's a non-toxic paint that stops slugs from climbing into raised beds. It works by neutralising the "glue-effect" of slug slime, so they literally just slide off of any surface painted with the stuff. Might give your raised beds a fighting chance!

@davedawson9851 21 күн бұрын

Eyup Dan. I've looked at meteorological explanations of the weather and arguments about our perception of the currently slightly below average temperatures and increased precipitation of late. Arse you said though and arse it is. Arse. Your arse, my arse and all our blighted and slug infested arses. It's being cheerful what keeps us going by all accounts. I'll sithi after!

@Allotment-diaryUk 21 күн бұрын

To be honest I think it's just complete arse personally 😕

@allotmentjoy 21 күн бұрын

Yep, there's a battle on to get crops growing. I see you've got the slug pellets out 👍 That had an effect on them for sure. My cobra beans are outside, and they're just starting to put runners on. Too cold. 5 degrees the other morning here. Sunflowers chomped, just stalks. Onions gone to seed but I didn't buy heat treated sets. What a difference a bit of fertiliser does on your beds. Keep up the good fight 😁👍🌱🌱🌱🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌Elaine

@andrewwindsor5962 21 күн бұрын

I’ve known known on my allotment so many slugs as well. I have literally two plots completely devastated by slugs.😢

@TreeCurtis84 18 күн бұрын

Im in the States, and the slugs and snails have been out of control here.

@markdavies6790 21 күн бұрын

Red onions went to seed. White have thrived. Solent Wight garlic had bad rust. However the Thermidiore are doing well.

@PatchofParadiseAllotment 21 күн бұрын

Most pellets seem to be rubbish now, Sluggo is the only one that’s worked well for us this season. It is reassuring to see even some of the most experienced growers having issues though.

@Allotment-diaryUk 21 күн бұрын

I'll have a look at them, they say they are resistant to rain. The ones I use disappear after a shower so are useless. Cheers Dan 😊

@Ghhyuttgg 21 күн бұрын

Just harvested my garlic. Thick necked varieties did OK but the bulbs were quite 'open' if that makes sense. Not concentrated and tight. what did I do wrong?

@PilsburyDoughboyEsquire-lu9ij 22 күн бұрын

Polytunnels are the way to go. I'm putting a second one up for next season. Slugs have hammered me as well. Everything is tip top in the tunnel.

@Allotment-diaryUk 21 күн бұрын

Yeah, I downsized mine from 24 ft long to just this little bit I have now. But it's big enough to get some clean lettuce from. Cheers Dan 😊

@gavt1198 18 күн бұрын

Which Iris do you put in your pond? I’m looking for some for our pond. Thanks 👍

@rickthelian2215 21 күн бұрын

Yes disappearing to buy something like in this case onion sets, you could let it seed and collect them they may grow better directly from the seed. Experimentation.

@Erkonbaby 21 күн бұрын

same thing has happened to my heat treated onion sets this year.

@dionicia12 21 күн бұрын

Time for slug pellets. They have been going after my lettuce and the ear wigs have been going after my strawberries. Hopefully it gets warmer for you.

@elainjones9442 21 күн бұрын

All looks good i wish to make me a garden I enjoyed my garden

@lemagreengreen 21 күн бұрын

Almost an exact repeat of 2023 weather for us here in Scotland, June has been pretty much a write off... constant grey, cold, wet. Unfortunately if this continues I think we'll see the worst year ever, again... never saw anything like it until last year but worrying signs of this becoming normal.

@ballysillanallotment-man5793 21 күн бұрын

Same here Dan and they attacking things they've never touched before my mint bed totally wiped out

@virtualfather 21 күн бұрын

I have battled slugs and snails for years last year I started using Sluggo it works great not sure if you can get it over there works great

@Allotment-diaryUk 21 күн бұрын

Someone else recommended that too. I'll have a look. Cheers Dan 😊

@ChicTumshy 21 күн бұрын

@@Allotment-diaryUk Sluggo and its kin kill earthworms

@NicksAllotmentDiary 22 күн бұрын

Hi mate. Slugs and snails have been so bad this year by me too. Shame about those red onion sets. Take care. Nick

@Allotment-diaryUk 21 күн бұрын

Yep really annoying. Going to contact the suppliers and tell them they are selling stuff that doesn't grow as they say it does. Might as well have just bought cheap sets if they're gonna go to seed. Watch this space. Cheers Dan 😊

@tshania_wingu 21 күн бұрын

Same Problem in middle germany. 180 slugs in just one houre.

@smokeytexx 21 күн бұрын

never tried it but i am told , go to your local coffee shop and get a few buckets of coffee grounds , maybe put a band of around each bed and between some rows , slugs cant stand the stuff and you get the nitro boost in your to as a bonus .

@derekmulready1523 21 күн бұрын

After the Sunday roast and the oven switched of place on a baking tray crushed egg shells. Leave until oven grows cold sprinkle around plants. Replenish weekly Retired Irish allotment holder

@anjkovo2138 21 күн бұрын

👍👍

@fletchybabe6172 21 күн бұрын

Have you tried using nematodes to keep the slug population down, I find it works brilliantly 🤔😁

@Allotment-diaryUk 21 күн бұрын

I have used them in the past but they are only effective with the sub soil living keel slugs. Mine are all above ground big horrible ones so it won't work on them. Cheers Dan 😊

@helenbardsley2634 18 күн бұрын

Buy the cheapest beer, pour in shallow trays around the plot

@milliosmiles5160 21 күн бұрын

Try beer traps. Cheapest, nastiest beer is best!

@Allotment-diaryUk 21 күн бұрын

Gonna do this. Got 4 cans of 10 year old coop 2% beer that I always wondered what to do with coz I'm not drinking it. Cheers Dan 😂

@dcrosco1458 22 күн бұрын

Could it be all the wetness that you all are having. The ground looks really wet.

@Allotment-diaryUk 21 күн бұрын

It's a mixture of a mild Winter so no pests were frozen and as you say just non stop rain for about 6 months. Ideal for slugs. Cheers Dan 😊

@cms9902 21 күн бұрын

What happens if you remove the seed head?

@Allotment-diaryUk 21 күн бұрын

Nothing. Once it goes to seed it will stop growing in the bulb. Cheers Dan

@tmyersf4 20 күн бұрын

why are my comments getting deleted ...no links, nothing offensive

@lifestapestry2968 21 күн бұрын

Had to resort to the blue slug pellets this year as they've decimated everything. The wet and cold long spring has made them thrive.

@venenareligioest410 21 күн бұрын

It’s the dreaded ‘manmade global warming’ Dan 🤣

@Allotment-diaryUk 21 күн бұрын

If it's global warming it must be damn hot everywhere else to counterbalance how cold it is here. It's like Winter. Cheers Dan 🍻

@venenareligioest410 21 күн бұрын

@@Allotment-diaryUk 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Yes, they have forgotten that ‘global’ means ‘everywhere’.