What's happening in your garden this spring?

[fr499y]

Acer’s are doing well this year already




The Chives are also looking good, used a few already


The wild section has also taken off in the last week


The Rosemary is just insane at the moment

[BigBen]

I love rosemary, can't walk past a bush without running my hand through it!

[BigBen]

This has popped out this weekend

[Vale!]

In case this is useful ...

By the end of last year I was quite dispirited, gardenwise, because pretty much anything I had planted outside got munched by slugs, many things terminally.

So this March I issued an ultimatum to the Sluggery : "unless you undertake to remove your slimy selves from my garden by the beginning of April, a state of war will exist between our two species". I have to tell you now that no such undertaking was received and that, therefore, Vale! was at war with Sluggery.

Shock and awe followed : nightly patrols with an eggcupful of salt ; ad hoc daylight raids in dark, damp places ; the garden booby-trapped with slug/snail traps. I began to turn the tide to my favour.

There are still pockets of insurgents left to neutralise but, overall, the war is won! The turning point was the delivery to the battlefield of a new (to me) weapon : Nematode worms. Miraculous!

I get them (trade name : Nemaslug) via greengardener.co.uk, to apply via watering-can every six weeks or so until the weather turns. I can't recommend this highly enough if you've a similarly significant sluggy problem.

[Stephen]

@Vale!
My main foe in the garden are snails.
I am using something which I understand is now banned ... slug pellets.

[plankton]

Is copper supposed to put them off (snails and slugs)?

[fr499y]

This just doesn’t stop growing, I’ll have to trim it soon as it’s taking over the path up the garden


It’s nice to see the rescued rose is starting to thicken out and finally have roses on it.

[F3l1ss]

Slug pellets are banned, it's the certain chemical composition that's banned. You can get ones with ferric phosphate or iron III phosphate. It's metaldehyde that's banned due to the harmful effects to everything.

Do remember not all slugs are bad though (can't say the same about snails...) but a variety of slugs are needed to eat decaying matter and feed the food chain x

[fr499y]

Also metaldehyde is still legal to use within a greenhouse which I find strange ( if you still have some floating around ). Surely a ban should be a ban *shrugs*

[Mito]

I had three dog die some years ago because they got into the greenhouse and ate the slug pellets. Not a nice thing to see.