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It's been boggy down South over the last few weeks and slugs are starting to proliferate.
There's quite a lot of slug damage, but in honesty it's the first time I've had it so badly on my potatoes.. of all things.
The photos show the destroyed potato plant on the left sitting next to a perfectly healthy and almost untouched potato plant of a different variety on the right.
The likely cause of this damage is the proximity of the potatoes to a pile of weeds and manure and an uncut section of grass which is great habit for slugs to hide.
There's a rhubarb sitting right next to the healthy potato and I'm wondering if that offered a bit of protection from the ravenous slugs.
I'm also curious to know whether the destroyed potato was suffering from an especially weak immune system - perhaps a co-factor in it's demise..
Thanks for reading
There's quite a lot of slug damage, but in honesty it's the first time I've had it so badly on my potatoes.. of all things.
The photos show the destroyed potato plant on the left sitting next to a perfectly healthy and almost untouched potato plant of a different variety on the right.
The likely cause of this damage is the proximity of the potatoes to a pile of weeds and manure and an uncut section of grass which is great habit for slugs to hide.
There's a rhubarb sitting right next to the healthy potato and I'm wondering if that offered a bit of protection from the ravenous slugs.
I'm also curious to know whether the destroyed potato was suffering from an especially weak immune system - perhaps a co-factor in it's demise..
Thanks for reading
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