{"id":1533,"date":"2012-06-05T13:46:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T12:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greensideup.ie\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2015-07-19T00:54:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T23:54:21","slug":"the-greenside-up-vegetable-garden-video-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/the-greenside-up-vegetable-garden-video-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greenside Up Vegetable Garden – Video Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Structures<\/a>

It’s a ‘soft’ day here – Structures in the Vegetable Garden<\/p><\/div>\n

My Vegetable Garden (4th June 2012)<\/h1>\n

So here we are three months after my first video<\/a> and it’s starting to look like a ‘proper’ vegetable garden once again. All the frames and structures are in place with seeds, seedlings and plants growing in most of the beds now.<\/p>\n

\"Herbs<\/a>

An insect eye’s view of the herbs<\/p><\/div>\n

We’re picking and harvesting herbs, broad beans, lettuce, spinach and strawberries and with the warm weather a couple of weeks ago, at last we’re all noticing growth in everything. It’s been slow this year with the cold night-time temperatures causing many people I speak with problems. Even the heated bench<\/a>didn’t help us much here – my chilli seedlings are still tiny! The hope now is that the potatoes don’t succumb to blight when vegetable growers have only just got over the frost damage.<\/p>\n

Slugs<\/a>\u00a0have been the most destructive pest here to date. I’ve tried egg shells (not bad),\u00a0coffee (seems to deter them), organic slug pellets (see the photo on last month’s<\/a> post – they were rubbish) and NemaSlug<\/a> (think it was too hot for them and despite watering, the soil just not wet enough). I’m now trying a sample of Slug GoneWool Pellets around a couple of bean plants to see how they fare.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Greenside Up Garden – 5 June 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

The best method I’ve found by far has been going out to the garden and picking the slugs off the grass surrounding the beds or even the seedlings themselves. I know Jane Powers suggested in her recent Irish Times article that the kindest way to dispose of slugs is by snipping them in half with scissors but I’m sorry, I just can’t bring myself to do it. So into a bottle of hot water it is for them \ud83d\ude41 maybe my nerves will strengthen in time and I’ll try the more humane method soon.<\/p>\n

If you have any questions, observations or comments on the methods I’m using here please feel free to ask\/say. Feedback is good and I might learn something!<\/p>\n