The potatoes have been replaced with sweet peppers. There are six plants, and they should be two each of three different varieties – Sweet Lipstick, Californian Wonder and Marconi Rosso.
The latest slug protection product is Slug Buggers*. I saw them advertised in a magazine and thought I would try them. They’re made from waste sheep’s wool, and therefore pretty environmentally friendly and benign.
The main problem is that they don’t come with any instructions. I think I used too many – I used most of the tub to put a ring around 5 pepper plants, which would make them pretty expensive to use on any scale. A quick hop around the internet suggests that broadcasting them in the area to be protected would be enough, but the manufacturer doesn’t have any information on their website.
And they smell. Well, they stink… of sheep. I don’t mind the smell too much, it reminds me of holidays in the country, but now the garden smells like a small holding. I threw a handful around in the Grow Dome, and the smell is even stronger in there. But I suspect this means that they’ll have the fringe benefit of keeping cats off the flowerbeds as well – they won’t want to scratch around in something that smells so strongly.
Whether they work or not… that remains to be seen.
*Gotta love the name