First thing Sunday morning was fractionally colder than Saturday and it remained cool and cloudy all day with rain setting in mid afternoon. This meant Sunday took over the record of coldest September day I’ve recorded at 7.7°C breaking 8.3°C set yesterday. The rain started mid afternoon and is still falling mid morning Monday although it’s not been particularly heavy. The forecast is for much more wind and rain over the next 24 hours. Autumn has definitely arrived big time.
Now all our potatoes are lifted I’ve summarised the crop from each of our varieties in the table below. Despite this spring and summer’s poor weather and the potatoes getting away to a very late start the total crop weights for 2011 and 2012 are very similar with a total for 2011 of 152.304 kg. As lots of you measure in pounds 150 kg is equivalent to 330 lbs.
To finish on a rather gruesome note. I’d accidentally placed a bucket full of potatoes on top of a snail on Saturday night. I heard that crunching sound of breaking snail shell as I put the potatoes down onto the patio. I didn’t think too much about it as there are plenty of other snails in the garden to take its place. I was really surprised on Sunday morning to find a large slug tucking into the remains of the crushed snail.
Apparently after a little Internet research slugs will clear away the remnants of dead snails. That’s something I hadn’t expected and I’ve certainly not noticed happening in the garden before.
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Yuk, slugs never cease to amaze me. I quite fancy trying Vales Emerald, I've heard good things about it before.
ReplyDeleteWhat about setting dead snail traps instead of beer traps for slugs.
ReplyDeleteVales Emerald got a good review from Beechgrove Garden too.
Slugs are really quite interesting. I hate it when they eat my plants but I've grown to appreciate them in many ways. On the plus side, they eat alot of algae off a flat roof extension I have, so that must be a good thing.
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