Rusty_Hinge wrote:
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Bob Hobden wrote:

Ok, see your point, we are only two as well and I've had arthritis
for
decades but we have a full allotment for the veg. Regarding slugs
and snails they are a problem however you garden, you have to learn
to live with them most of the time, we simply plant more to take
account of the losses as we do for diseases like White Rot. I take
your point about weeding, doesn't do your knees much good, a
morning spend hand weeding the onions/shallots does me no good.
Still, no gain without pain.

Would raised beds circumvent this problem with the slugs and snails?

Yes, if you tie a piece of copper wire round the structure.

The best material is some old TV co-ax. tear off the outside coating
(many of them are pre-scored) and push (don't pull!) the braided
copper screen off the diastatic.

You'll find the bare screen will stretch to several times the length
of your original cable.

Thank you. Val, have you used this on your raised beds?