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This year i'm growing a small amount of a large variety of vegetables, because of this, I sowed three seeds of 'all the year round' cauli's.
All three came up nicely, they were all potted on nicely and planted out a week and a half ago.
They each had a few slug pellets dotted around them and a ring of slug sticky gel put around them.
Two days later one of the plants had all the leaves bitten off at ground level, and the remaining leaves had been eaten round the edges looking like slug damage.
yesterday I found plant number two has suffered the same fate.
Only plant number three left now, my early cauli chances are all resting on this one plant (more seeds sown for later cauli's).
I just cant see that slugs would have got to them, theres no sign of slugs. All raised beds are covered with wire mesh to stop cats and birds.
The soil was a mix of peat, topsoil and compost mixed with the existing soil, its raised beds 6'' high and the area has been veg for 2 years, before this it was under shingle.
any ideas!!?
jon
All three came up nicely, they were all potted on nicely and planted out a week and a half ago.
They each had a few slug pellets dotted around them and a ring of slug sticky gel put around them.
Two days later one of the plants had all the leaves bitten off at ground level, and the remaining leaves had been eaten round the edges looking like slug damage.
yesterday I found plant number two has suffered the same fate.
Only plant number three left now, my early cauli chances are all resting on this one plant (more seeds sown for later cauli's).
I just cant see that slugs would have got to them, theres no sign of slugs. All raised beds are covered with wire mesh to stop cats and birds.
The soil was a mix of peat, topsoil and compost mixed with the existing soil, its raised beds 6'' high and the area has been veg for 2 years, before this it was under shingle.
any ideas!!?
jon
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