Progress on the hillside

Just keep evicting the slugs and snails, or letting them go to their own ruin through the evils of drink! It's always good to have a go yourself at repairs and re-arrangements, your garden should look good when this rain gives them the chance to really get going. The rope edging is great and would cost a fortune to buy, was that re-claimed or from another part of the garden? A bit at a time is what gardening is all about - unless you have unlimited funds and a garden designer!

Poor you with the slug and snails, 1st year here we had a lot, Shadow (black dog) being only a puppy with no brain kept eating them. Took him to the vets since was worried about heart worm but luckly this area is a heart worm free area. Couldn't put anything down, even beer traps as Shadow, pain that he is lol, would probably have that as well. Cleared as many as I could by hand and hubby was only saying last night when he let dogs out how he doesn't see them all over patio anymore. Know you keep hearing this but you will get there. :-)

Honeysuckle...The rope edging was freecycle as well. I am just going with the original design that was put dowm in the 1970s but was hidden beneath the forest and foot of ivy. I have also put some slug pellets down but chose the organic ones that seem better with animal. Fortunately jen none of us in the terrace have dogs but have tried to be careful. Should they reduce now the forest has gone and i guess the places they breed are reduced?
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That is what I have found in my garden. As I was clearing more and more last year, weeds that is, I was finding them. Dispatched them and it really seems, touch wood, that I have far fewer this year. Have put some very well hidden pellets down around my hostas this year in my front garden but still none down in back but still not got so many as last year. Patio used to be covered at night with them :-(.

I love the rope edging too - what luck getting it from Freecycle! You are really making progress. good luck with the beer traps!

Looking good. The battle against the slugs and snails seems to be never ending but gradually it gets better. As Honeysuckle says it's a bit at a time with the garden, I tackle ours border or bed at a time then try to stay on top of what I've don before moving to the next bit.

Beer traps are effective as the hedgehog doesn't seem to be around much any more.

Slugs will eat anything as I discovered when I placed a small pot of artificial flowers in my miniature garden. This was to add colour and it looked quite effective for all of 24 hours. The slugs ate the leaves and the flowers : plastic!