Many thanks for your greetings and suggestions. It's a tricky one, isn't it! I think I'll continue staggering the planting of the reliable Kestrel. These have proved to be good keepers, slugs ignore them and I still have a few as we approach February. Then I'll do the sensible thing and plant the ma...

I realise it's a little early to be worrying about potatoes, we won't be planting them for a couple of months. However, the seed catalogues are here and I desperately need to find a main crop variety that won't become decimated by slug damage. My soil doesn't help being thick, glutinous clay. Over t...