19 Late August

Bunty prepares and sows the winter salad crops lettuce 'Little Gem', 'Lattughino', 'May King', Mizuna, pak choi 'Joi Choi, Claytonia & Wild Rocket in the polytunnel. The red spider mite has got to the indoor beans 'Cobra' so they are removed. She explains why the melons 'Sweetheart ' have had to be pulled out and has moved the onions and garlic into the polytunnel to finish drying. Bunty updates us on the pea 'Sugar Snap' crops. She shows how to train the courgettes and explains the importance of taking out spent crops and sowing green manures or composting. Bunty harvests pumkin 'Ichiki Kuri', butternut squash 'Hunter', leaf beet 'Erbette', Kholrabi, autumn raspberries 'Autumn Bliss' and peppers 'Worldbeater'. Bunty finished with another slugging tip.

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[baconsoda]

Hi Bunty, I tried your corn cob method and I was astonished at how many slugs appeared. But, in the morning most of the 6 cobs had been moved. I was a bit puzzled, especially when it happened 3 nights in a row. Then I was out in the shed gathering up my slug scissors and happened to notice a fox in the garden. I watched it check the beds and eat the slugs on the cobs so I quietly slipped into the house and left my new employee at work.

Best Wishes, Brendan