With spring just around the corner (finally!) and so here is a collaboration video with Liz Zorab where we highlight 5 tips to ensure a successful start to spring. We also have two bonus tips at the end which are to do with slug control!
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I had great fun making this video Huw, thank you so much for visiting us!
Great colab guys. Much appreciated and happy growing!
I don't think I'll ever not have tons of unused seed packets. It's my addiction I suppose.
What a wonderful video and a fabulous collaboration!
My growing year 'starts' in July with a seed audit and ordering new packets and varieties. I keep a master list and compare options from different on-line sellers. It takes a lot to make me buy outside that list. Keep the broken spade handles and sharpen the end as a great dibber
I know it sounds like silly magic, but I tried using a copper trowel to deter slugs last spring. It was a cheap one from Amazon, because the good ones (PKS Bronze) come from Austria and I'm in California. Because it was cheap copper and not sturdy bronze, it eventually bent and I forgot about it. That is, until this wet winter/spring, when I'm noticing that for the first time in 40 years we have no slugs. Not exactly a scientific trial, but I am now reveling in my beautiful, slug-free lettuce, a real first for me!
Haha huw! "there's always one ever-continuing wars…with slugs" Yep great soldiers.. Just give them one beer they love it (they drink yeah they do) and later bring ducks to dinner (to eat slugs) then your victory. Hehe.. How Lovely is liz .. Good night Huw 🙂
Love, love, love , great to see two fabulous gardeners together again. Great tips. Thankyou.
Thanks for the tips Liz and Hugh! I started preparing the greenhouse yesterday, can’t wait to get going this season 🙂
I have a small water butt that is only used for washing tools and has a scrubbing brush hanging on the handle. I never put tools back dirty. Even Hubbie and my daughter are now trained and know better than to put muddy things in my shed.
Great video, it's looking better than my waterlogged hill.
Liz and huw, this is very nice video
Bravi. Greetings from Italy
I watched a video where the lady put a just eaten half of cantaloupe, cut side down, near where she noticed slugs gathering. She removed the slugs that were there, then put the half down. The video came back the next morning, where she lifted the cantaloupe to show us, and there must have been a dozen under there. Something in the cantaloupe shell attracted them to the cantaloupe and away from her vegetables. Also saw one using a potato.
What zone do you live in?
In my garden such brambles wouldn't help much against slugs. I've seen slugs crawl through the top layer of soil. So they can pass under the brambles.
Thank you for the tips.
I see dibbers made from the broken handles.
I'm subscribed to both your channels (Liz''s and Huw's). Watching you two in the same video is really cool! 🙂 Like watching two celebrities from two different TV series suddenly appearing in one episode together if that makes sense… LOL! 🙂
I am so guilty of buying seeds that I'll never eat or use! Made me chuckle, and I am so glad that others do the same. And, I love my little volunteer plants too….. I think they may be some of my favorite plants in the garden! Still deep under the snow and very cold here in Vermont. Looking forward to spring. Wonderful videos. Thanks!
Great collaboration!
Best part was when Huw says 'if I were a slug…' OMG
Thank you, both, for the informative video. I do so agree with Liz that going out into the garden and enjoy the things that you have accomplished, and not to be stressed over what you have not yet done, is so important. I believe that this will make you want to do more than if you are stressed over what you have not yet done. We are building a house now, in a on the edge of woodland – do you have any advice how to best break new ground? I think the whole "garden" is roots and brambles etc… We will mostly have flowering bushes, roses and others I think. Thank you both 🙂
Greetings from Sweden!
I need to take your advice on listing things out. I loved your last video about planning. Are your templates in your new book? Or do you sell it as a computer software?
I throw all my leftover seeds in the neighbor's yard. They rarely cut their lawn and it grows a lovely wildness for the local rabbits.
“Appreciate what’s already there.” Love that.
You have both inspired me to have another go at the veg beds. Id given up mostly because the v hot summers here are so difficult to keep on top of watering. But with the no dig approach and the mulching im trying again this year and hope to be more successful. Thanks for the videos and all, of the wonderful info you share. Carla SW France
Don’t succumb to the seed packets.. lol. Impossible.
I leave orange other citrus peels near slug damage. Check them at dusk and dawn for a couple days. They collect on and under them. Sprinkling coffee grounds on the surface helps to not get new ones so quickly.
your tip about brambles has inspired me. I'm growing daikon to try to open up the soil (it's winter here) and I always have leaves that are too old and fibrous and spiky to cook. I'm going to put them around (some of) my seedlings and see if that discourages the *$&%*^&@$ slugs 🙂