Paul The Dealer. 100kg of white stuff and sunglasses, be careful you might get a visit from the local constabulary checking what type of plants you’re growing at the plot! 🤪
Hi Paul, you made a good job of the greenhouse path. I don't like that fine rain....I call it pishhhh 😁 We collected the leaves up and made a leaf bay to put them in, so fingers crossed we get some mulch.
Thank you for showing a novice like me how to plant and start a new Christmas cactus. I have a CC which was a gift last year, and it has grown and flowered amazingly well this year. I always watch your vlog each week but don’t necessarily comment. Thank you again. Bye for now .
I’m more recently thinking the same on cardboard harbouring slugs. Still use it in places to build soil but am doing more chop and drop/composting in place, this year, will be interesting to see numbers in 2025, yeasty traps a must for me!.
I know you like a bargain and the freebies from Lidl Paul, I did my shop today and found their veggies are 8p! 8p for a turnip, or a bag of carrots etc! I picked up enough for the freezer and veggies soups! X
Indeed, I did see that when I was shopping on Thursday - great for our pockets, though I just hope the farmers aren't being even more squeezed than usual. 👍🤞👍
@paulsavident yes there's that too, hopefully the price paid to the farmers is an agreed price before any pricing these companies do? Lidl (and the other big supermarkets doing these offers) can afford to take any "losses"! Best wishes to you and Richard (try not to stress too much Richard regarding your job scrutiny)x
@@paulsavident I think anything like tarpaulin/weed supressent/carboard will all have the same effect i haved slabs and housebricks around beds and lift them up a couple of weeks later and full of slugs, remember slugs live in the soil so being undercover is a natural thing.
Isn't the white stuff called perlite? (Vermiculite being the beige metallic looking stuff) I so envy Brits having green grass and things still growing in the middle of winter! Chard looks gorgeous.
It seems to have been wrongly packaged! 🙄 I did think it looked odd and had emailed the company - will wait and see. 😁 The good thing is it is aerating. 👍😊👍
Slugs and snails (though more so numerically slugs) are beneficial in compost as they help break down the compost. 👍 I find the important part of composting is to ensure enough browns are added, ie dried twigs, grasses and cardboard as not to get too wet and get TOO many slugs/snails. 👍👍 Once compost is fully processed slugs will have vacated as there is not the food for them to feed on. 👍😊👍
@@paulsavidentTrue, but they will leave the their eggs behind! It has been a bad year for slugs and snails due to the weather and with wetter and warmer winters (talking UK) probably the future. Any hiding place will do whether it is under cardboard, plastic, around pots, long grass, down the side of wooden edging boards, especially as they get older and start to rot. A perfectly clear plot cuts down hiding places but that's not your way of gardening (mine neither) so I think we have to live with the losses. Cheers
Weeds or slugs. Take your pick. Personally I’d prefer weeding all day, to feeding huge crops of slugs. I’ve heard diatomaceous earth sprinkled around is helpful.
The other thing, other than beer..who are the predators of slugs, and do you have enough of slug predators in your area to keep a balance. If not, can you attract them in?
We have hedgehogs, frogs, toads, foxes, a grass snake... and nematodes so we are doing what we can in attracting beneficial creatures that predate slugs and snails. 👍😊👍
I've got 3 stonking flowers on my Lidl cacti.....I'm OK with that as its now "spoken" to the other 2 on window ledge and both have lots of buds. I do try to replicate Lidl but I'm sure they must move them about in the shop so the damage may have been done before bringing it home. Never mind....as us gardeners always say....there's always next year.
I have emailed the company, as it looks like perlite though definitely says vermiculite, though does not look like it - I guess the good thing is it is aerating. 👍😊👍
Carboard in the UK is largely safe, with the ink used on packaging being mainly plant-based, as are the glues. 👍 However, other countriues have different regulations around cardboard, so... 🤞
Omg the kitty cats is gorgeous 🐈🐾🤗🥰
Indeed, he is rather. 👍😊👍
Cats love gardens as much as we do!
Indeed, certainly Big Ginge does! 👍😁👍
Cat lover.. 🐈😻
Indubitably!! 👍😺❤😺👍
Paul The Dealer. 100kg of white stuff and sunglasses, be careful you might get a visit from the local constabulary checking what type of plants you’re growing at the plot! 🤪
Indeedy... I may!!! 😁
Hi Paul, you made a good job of the greenhouse path.
I don't like that fine rain....I call it pishhhh 😁
We collected the leaves up and made a leaf bay to put them in, so fingers crossed we get some mulch.
Great idea tp collect leaf for leaf mould. 👍👍👍
Hiya Paul, Thankyou for the visit. Take care from a rainy night in Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝👋🏻
Thanks for visiting Beverley. 👍😊👍
Thank you for showing a novice like me how to plant and start a new Christmas cactus. I have a CC which was a gift last year, and it has grown and flowered amazingly well this year. I always watch your vlog each week but don’t necessarily comment. Thank you again. Bye for now .
So glad to have been of help Glynnis. 👍😊👍
I’m more recently thinking the same on cardboard harbouring slugs. Still use it in places to build soil but am doing more chop and drop/composting in place, this year, will be interesting to see numbers in 2025, yeasty traps a must for me!.
Indeed, and I think I will be going for yeast traps as it seems, to me, to be cheaper than using beer. 🤔
I know you like a bargain and the freebies from Lidl Paul, I did my shop today and found their veggies are 8p! 8p for a turnip, or a bag of carrots etc! I picked up enough for the freezer and veggies soups! X
Indeed, I did see that when I was shopping on Thursday - great for our pockets, though I just hope the farmers aren't being even more squeezed than usual. 👍🤞👍
@paulsavident yes there's that too, hopefully the price paid to the farmers is an agreed price before any pricing these companies do? Lidl (and the other big supermarkets doing these offers) can afford to take any "losses"! Best wishes to you and Richard (try not to stress too much Richard regarding your job scrutiny)x
wonderful video as always, I do agree that slugs will use the cardboard as a home for sure, i have experienced it myself on the allotment.
Indeed, I am tending to go that way... do you think old tarpaulin would have the same effect? 🤔
@@paulsavident I think anything like tarpaulin/weed supressent/carboard will all have the same effect i haved slabs and housebricks around beds and lift them up a couple of weeks later and full of slugs, remember slugs live in the soil so being undercover is a natural thing.
Isn't the white stuff called perlite? (Vermiculite being the beige metallic looking stuff)
I so envy Brits having green grass and things still growing in the middle of winter! Chard looks gorgeous.
That's right. Vermiculite is a natural mineral like mica. I think perlite is man made like Styrofoam. I hope I'm wrong about the perlite.
I checked: perlite is also a natural material derived from volcanic ash. 😊
It seems to have been wrongly packaged! 🙄 I did think it looked odd and had emailed the company - will wait and see. 😁 The good thing is it is aerating. 👍😊👍
if you have slugs and snails in your compost bins you will have them in your beds
Slugs and snails (though more so numerically slugs) are beneficial in compost as they help break down the compost. 👍 I find the important part of composting is to ensure enough browns are added, ie dried twigs, grasses and cardboard as not to get too wet and get TOO many slugs/snails. 👍👍 Once compost is fully processed slugs will have vacated as there is not the food for them to feed on. 👍😊👍
@@paulsavidentTrue, but they will leave the their eggs behind! It has been a bad year for slugs and snails due to the weather and with wetter and warmer winters (talking UK) probably the future. Any hiding place will do whether it is under cardboard, plastic, around pots, long grass, down the side of wooden edging boards, especially as they get older and start to rot. A perfectly clear plot cuts down hiding places but that's not your way of gardening (mine neither) so I think we have to live with the losses. Cheers
Weeds or slugs. Take your pick. Personally I’d prefer weeding all day, to feeding huge crops of slugs. I’ve heard diatomaceous earth sprinkled around is helpful.
Indeedy, I feel my mind is going the same way... weeds better than slugs... 🤔
I quit mulching altogether because of slugs.
Indeed Judy, it's a bit of a conondrum, isn't it... it's an interesting topic for sure. 👍
The other thing, other than beer..who are the predators of slugs, and do you have enough of slug predators in your area to keep a balance. If not, can you attract them in?
We have hedgehogs, frogs, toads, foxes, a grass snake... and nematodes so we are doing what we can in attracting beneficial creatures that predate slugs and snails. 👍😊👍
I've got 3 stonking flowers on my Lidl cacti.....I'm OK with that as its now "spoken" to the other 2 on window ledge and both have lots of buds. I do try to replicate Lidl but I'm sure they must move them about in the shop so the damage may have been done before bringing it home. Never mind....as us gardeners always say....there's always next year.
Yay for flowers!!! 👍👍👍 Indeed, most of the plants at our LIdl are kept outside. 👍😊👍
That is perlite not vermiculite 😂,
I have emailed the company, as it looks like perlite though definitely says vermiculite, though does not look like it - I guess the good thing is it is aerating. 👍😊👍
I wonder if cardboard is safe. Are there harmful chemicals involved in making it? I'm suspicious of everything these days.
Carboard in the UK is largely safe, with the ink used on packaging being mainly plant-based, as are the glues. 👍 However, other countriues have different regulations around cardboard, so... 🤞
oh my gosh sunglasses, I checked---type in how to get rid of slugs and snails on TH-cam, lots of videos
I will be going down the yeast or beer tracks route. 🤞😊🤞