Slug prevention/fingers crossed.
I have been busy today cutting the tops and bottoms off plastic drink bottles (donated by neighbours), making a circle of cuts an inch and half deep along the top of the bottles then turning them over to form a collar.
I am hoping these little contraptions will keep the slugs off my purple sprouting broccoli.
I am on my third batch of broccoli plants, the first lot were not bothered at all by slugs and were doing magnificently until the cabbage white butterflies got them
I replaced these plants and installed netting, the slugs got them
Lot number three of plants now have netting
and plastic bottles..
I will grow purple sprouting broccoli and no pests are going to stop me
Ps have tried beer traps/porridge/egg shells/ to dispose of the dreaded slugs. I now undertake nightly perambulations with a torch/bucket and trowel and the slug population is decreasing