SLUGS ARE EATING MY PLANTS

I want to build an off-grid homestead in Northern Ireland where I will grow and feed my family with chemical free and full of nutrients-packed food on a daily basis. I want to create a healthy lifestyle that my three kids will look back on fondly and to a place they will eventually call home.

[@gregganderson1454]

Looks like Arlo recovered nicely. You seem to be doing a lot considering there’s only 24 hours in a day. Keep up the good work!

[@LaidBackHomesteader]

He just needed to stretch his legs and fill the pond with rocks!

[@tc6573]

Have your gate when it swings shut that it rest on a support. Nothing worse than a new hung level gate & someone climbs over it & makes it sag. Also puts less pressure on hanger post. Tomato plants outside I cut the growing tip out when they form the 1st flowering truss. Did that last year and it worked well.

[@LaidBackHomesteader]

Now you say that i can see 3 dudes using it as a swing, lol. The sheep have the old post broken already, just leaning against the gate. Another item added to the to-do list 😩 When I get a new post in I'll leave it with so the gate can be closed properly. Does cutting the top off help make more flower buds and then tomatoes? Thanks for advice TC

[@ClaireLea]

Another super video! "Don't fall off while I'm in the shot please" 😅 😁Unusually video seems a bit blurred today?? But doesn't take away from the great content . See you in the field 👍

[@LaidBackHomesteader]

Maybe it was the speed I was working that caused the blur! 😆 I'm glad you enjoyed watching it too 👍

[@Elizabeth-Angel]

Can wait to see the set up with the meat chickens. What is the cage from? Your always a step ahead of us when it comes to jobs and projects we are doing. Great for us, you give us ideas.

[@LaidBackHomesteader]

I made the cage myself using 1inch box section and mesh last year. 10x8 I'll explain it better next video 👍

[@theoodonovan1118]

Great content lad.

[@LaidBackHomesteader]

I'm glad to here you're enjoying it, and thanks for commenting. Maybe youtube will release my content to more of the world, lol 👍

[@theoodonovan1118]

@@LaidBackHomesteader The field will be famous yet ,lol

[@LaidBackHomesteader]

@@theoodonovan1118 and maybe I'll not have to work so hard lololol

[@Elizabeth-Angel]

I have found beer traps Guinness is working with the slugs for us. I hope I haven't kyboshed myself now. Planted a load of potatoes in no dig beds and using the ruth stout method. The no dig ones are up, the ruth stout are sprouting but not threw the hay yet and every time I pull it back for gawk I find so many slugs. I was listening to a permaculture guy in the UK he said it's not a slug problem its a deficiency of ducks. Not so easy to just go buy ducks though. Need fencing and a house for them. We have a fox at the end of one of our fields and have even seen it at 12pm in the day. I'm afraid the ducks or chickens wouldn't last pissing time if we don't prep and prep properly first.

[@LaidBackHomesteader]

Them paint mixer containers are working a treat for me. Sheltering the plant and making the inside warmer too. Its a cheap and cheerful method. I have thought about getting ducks too. My upper field has a foxes highway running through it Elizabeth. If slugs become a big problem I'm going to make a hut, over the pond, so that the ducks will enter from waterside keeping them safe while there inside. Sleep outside would have serious consequences lol