Sarah with her ingenious high-rise gutter garden
When KG reader Sarah Palmer got fed up with sharing her lettuces with the slugs and snails she decided she would set them a challenge… “I’ve tried looking at things from a snail’s perspective, I really have. I can see how the stem of a sunflower or courgette plant looks succulent and too delicious to resist, but seeing as they never seem to think about how I feel to come down in the morning to find my beloved seedlings munched away to slimy stalks, this year I decided enough was enough.
“My cunning plan involved buying myself a whole load of guttering and attaching it to my garage wall as well as some trellising I have along the drive. ‘Ha ha!’ I thought, as I screwed in all the brackets and rather counter-intuitively drilled drainage holes in the solid plastic, ‘this will fox the blighters!’