Ho Booby are you rotating your crop, i.e. not growing potatoes on the same piece of ground each year?

Are these called 'keel slugs', MG?

Yes huge brutes and it is their babies that chomp through the potatoes.

Thanks. In the days when I grew tatties, we got those too. What a waste of a crop that was! Our garden wasn't suitable for veggies, as it had tall trees all round. The haulms went up and up, flopped over and started going up again! LOL.

Potatoes in particular grow best in full sun.

I know that now, MG, but I didn't then! Just thought it might amuse you. LOL.

We did actually grow all our own veggies for a few years way back.......:-)

I wish we could grow 'all' our veggies but would need rather more land than we have... And more time too.

Too true! :-(