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marigold
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Thanks for bringing a bit of humour to the battle, cab. I was planting stuff out yesterday and feeling utterly depressed at the thought of a) how late I am with everything, b) all my hard work being scoffed by the s*dding slug and snail commandos and c) the weather turning evil again and blowing everything to shreds or parching it dry...
Planting out seedlings SHOULD induce delicious anticipatory thoughts, but last night I was about ready to abandon attempts to grow my own veg. All my parsley and first-sowing coriander is gone, nearly all first sowing beetroot and second sowing coriander. I haven't had a single lettuce leaf myself (I AM giving up on lettuce!), bean plants are nibbled and slimed over, cavalo nero gone... The b*stards have even been at the garlic chives  .
The slug nematodes seem to have had no effect whatsover, but I installed some slug pubs last night and joy! they were strewn with corpses this morning :evil cackle smiley:
On a more cheerful note, red Russian kale is doing well and rocket thrives, spuds are flowering and it looks as though my hestia beans may flower soon... There's hope yet  . |
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cab
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frewen
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cab
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marigold
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| cab wrote: |
You've got to laugh, otherwise you'd cry
Lettuce do just fine in troughs and planters, even in pots on a light window ledge. Have you considered giving that a go? |
They WERE in troughs . Haven't got enough windowsill space to try them indoors, so I'll stick to bought pap disguised with lots of tasty additions.
Frewen, in my limited experience French parsley germinates easier than curly. It's supposed to like to be chilled after sowing so I sowed it in modules indoors in nice soggy warm compost, then the second night put it out to get chilled, then brought it back indoors. (Thinks: should have tried some control batches left entirely indoors and out  - maybe next year...).
Anyway it germinated brilliantly and I hardened it off and planted out the small plants. And the slugs had a feast . One or two plants are still fighting back, but I rather think it's going to be slugs 10, parsley nil before too long. I suppose I should have another go.
I've got some par-cel going strong (so far, touch wood) and the French parsley was fine last year, so maybe I was just a bit too early with it this year.
I'm going to try cab's advice to sprout the coriander - at least I managed to get the right kind of seed this year  . Never realised until I was browsing through the Organic Gardening catalogue that there's different seed for growing leaf coriander and for producing seeds . |
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cab
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Jonnyboy
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adekun
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coriander, thyme and parsely failed to even germinate to order 
The closest i came to tasting them was the oniony smell as I grubbed the lot out.
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