Gardening successes/failures

[Geordie_Rob]

Next April/may head to your local £1 shop & get yourself a few of the beer traps. I was late to the party on this one & my sprouts only just recovered enough to grow. The slugs round here love tesco value bitter The trouble is it seems for every one I kill, another 5 come for the funeral. I'm going to have to resort to more drastic measures next year I think. I try to be as organic as possible, but sometimes you have to just bite the bullet.

If you grow your own spuds, don't fall for the lie that you need seed potatoes. Any old potatoes that have started sprouting will do just fine. Morrisons sell flower buckets 8 for 99p that are ideal for growing them in. Just add a few drainage holes in 1st.