BUILDING A PEA STRUCTURE... AGAIN! / ALLOTMENT GARDENING 

I have some polystyrene balls that do the trick nicely too.

My broad beans are literally covered in blackfly despite numerous sprayings with soapy water etc . I've been harvesting merrily for over two weeks and still loads left . I've about six varieties altogether and even though I sowed in succession they're all ripening together. Try sowing a variety called Luz de Ottono now for an Autumn harvest. I'll be trying them shortly for the first time as I'd never heard of summer sown broad beans. They can be sown to overwinter too just like Aquadulce.

​@@georgemartin9618 That's good. I did sow my Broadbeans 2 years ago in the autumn, and they did quite well. I can vouch for the fact that spring sowing seems to attract worse infestations, but I have still experienced the black aphids with Autumn sown Broadbeans as well. Last Autumn I was a bit unwell and couldn't do the Autumn sowing, so that why I had to try Spring Sowing. As this year's been so bad I think if I don't get my sowing done in Autumn I just wont bother, even if there's a chance of a decent harvest. It's too soul destroying to watch so many healthy plant go from lush growth to a diseased state. I did try a few remedies, but I refuse to use harsh chemicals that hurt nature. As gardeners we should sometimes accept a loss and get over it. This year is a very difficult years as we all are experiencing. Every years I grow lots of pumpkins and beans of all types, but i just can't go round looking for slugs and snails because my spine can't bend and twist, so I am not agile. My best plants are my tomatoes, some peppers and chillies, a few aubergines (in my greenhouse) and flowers, of which about 1/4 were eaten by the molluscs, which I call the devil's pets. We spent all late Winter and Spring wating for the sun, and I know so many are disappointed with the UK weather. One nice consequence of this though, is that many fruit trees are having a bumper harvest. I had a bucket of cherries, a lovely ongoing harvest of raspberries, some lovely strawberries, gooseberries, and a few other bits and pieces. Next year, if the weather is doing the same (unlikely but possible) I'll keep potting on my cucurbits into bigger pots and let them get big so they develop their prickly hairs ready for planting out. Wow, this turned into a small essay, sorry lol. X

Me too, I sowed 324 beetroot and have a decent amount but not too many sowed over 2000 lettuces got none! 100 courgettes so far I have about 10. X

I think I put a jute cargo net up Jess on plot 37 said she got hers from Amazon x

The growing season is around the same as yours. Well, for summer vegetable growing then you have autumn and winter vegetables.

She did, and some people in the comments were ugly about it. She's not the only one battling them. The slugs have been terrible in the UK this year. Some have all but given up, and they've used all kinds of methods, even salt, beer, and hand picking and drowning them.

@@kathleenwilliamson174 yea issue i have and was referring to more is previous videos she just throws them in the nearby bindweed hedge, so just letting them grow and come back, look at the size of the slugs they are not babies.

@noptfussedaboutthis I totally agree with you, I'm a get the salt after them kind of girl. I would hope she could at least throw them in a bucket, not the areas nearby.