View Single Post
  #4   Report Post  
Old 12-08-2008, 03:21 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
brian mitchell brian mitchell is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity by GardenBanter: Apr 2007
Posts: 94
Default Blight on Toms. and Spuds.

"Bob Hobden" wrote:
Our potatoes have suffered because of the drought we had before the monsoon
season started and now it has started the slugs are doing their worse, even
some holes in the Kestrals I dug this weekend. If it's not one thing it's
another!


Given that the climate has become a God-ordained paradise for slugs,
would one lose or save more potatoes by lifting and storing or by
leaving them in the ground?