As it’s been such a cold, wet spring and so far devoid of any summer, despite being just a few days from Midsummer’s Day, the slugs have been multiplying. And having a field day with the salad leaves.
We have lots of old pallets lying around the croft from deliveries of compost and building materials. Hugh started piling them up around the grow area to raise the grow pots up to make for easier harvesting, and to deter the slugs. It seems to have worked.
That extra few feet of vertical crawling to get to their prize seems to have deterred all but the most adventurous of them.
We now have a small city of pallets around the polycrub, all topped with fishboxes, canvas grow bags and old lick tubs, containing salad leaves.
It does look a bit Heath Robinson but it does the job until we can get proper grow beds built.
Pictures taken on the only sunny day we’ve had in June!
Ravencroft Skye 
It has been perfect weather for weeds and slugs! Your pallets are a good idea. I hope you manage to keep enough leaves going for your sales.
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Thank you. Growth has been slow as we’ve had cold temperatures and virtually no sun, but at least what is growing isn’t being eaten by the slugs. It’s working!
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Good use of those pallets! Everything looks so healthy and strong.
We’ve had a lot of rain, too. Thankfully, slugs have not been an issue this year (last year was insane) – at least not yet! – but our soil is so saturated, we’re seeing standing water in places I’ve never seen before!
Meanwhile, in parts of the US, they are getting heat waves and drought. This was supposed to be a drought year for us, too, but it seems Canada didn’t get that memo.
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Thank you! It may look a bit like a travellers encampment but do you know what, as long as they grow I don’t really care! The weather is so unpredictable these past few years… seemingly everywhere 😢
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Well, to be honest, I don’t remember a time when weather was every really predictable. It’s like the old joke. Don’t like the weather right now? Just wait five minutes. 😄
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What a great idea! Maybe you could paint a band around the top using something salty? I have read that slugs don’t like crawling over copper, maybe a copper band around the top would slow them down.
Our place is built on using rubbish temporarily (for 16 years), we certainly do reuse and recycle, you are in good company.
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We are in Colorado USA and we have had a very hot and dry June. It has felt more like late July the last 3-4 weeks. Ugh. The grasshoppers are decimating the gardens. We have a lot more toads than last year and they are helping with the grasshoppers, but not enough. I can’t imagine how bad it would be if we didn’t have all the toads. We are putting little toad pools in all the gardens to encourage them to hang out around the gardens eating the pests, which is helping. We also put pest tents over what we could. The grasshoppers still find a way in, but in smaller numbers than outside the tents. We will see what happens and what survives in the end.
Your pallet idea is great!
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As gardeners we’re always challenged! Best of luck with using nature to readdress the balance, definitely the best way.
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