Beer

[zigs]

Not the drink, but the Devon fishing village of the same name

Went down just as the rain was clearing.

Some garden escapes and rapeseed on the cliffs.

Red and white Valerian.

 

[zigs]

Allotments on the cliff top

 

[Sheal]

Lovely pictures Zigs. The last time I was in Beer I was knee high to a grasshopper, I don't remember it at all!

 

[tbendl]

You suckered me in with the title... Glad you did, it looks like a quaint town, thanks for the pictures!

 

[peachdejour]

I love the pictures! My first thought was that you were going to talk about using beer as fertilizer. Which I have no idea if it works.... don't try it! I was raised around drunks, they think beer is good for everything.

 

[zigs]

Sheal just told me the name comes from a wooded valley

 

[Sheal]

I found this on Wikipedia......

The name is not derived from the drink, but from the old Anglo-Saxon word "bearu" ("grove"), referring to the original forestation that surrounded the town.

 

[DeborahJane]

I assumed it was the drinking kind of beer too. I thought maybe you were growing hops! One morning , about 11am, I was walking around my garden with a beer in my hand. Just a little too early for a drink plus I'm a wine drinker. I had purchased some snail traps which you poor beer into. Apparently the snails can't resist and drown. I'm not sure whether it worked. Too many snails, too had to go out after every rainfall, too hard to remember where I put the traps. I've use an animal friendly snail poison but I do find I'm fighting a loosing battle with them. I've tried making a deal with them. They can live with the agapanthus but please leave my cannas alone. I have bought a tobacco plant, don't know it's other name, which the snails love I'm told so in too scared to plant it.

 

[DrCase]

I just wanted another beer
Nice looking place

 

[zigs]

I assumed it was the drinking kind of beer too. I thought maybe you were growing hops! One morning , about 11am, I was walking around my garden with a beer in my hand. Just a little too early for a drink plus I'm a wine drinker. I had purchased some snail traps which you poor beer into. Apparently the snails can't resist and drown. I'm not sure whether it worked. Too many snails, too had to go out after every rainfall, too hard to remember where I put the traps. I've use an animal friendly snail poison but I do find I'm fighting a loosing battle with them. I've tried making a deal with them. They can live with the agapanthus but please leave my cannas alone. I have bought a tobacco plant, don't know it's other name, which the snails love I'm told so in too scared to plant it.

Snails ate all my Tobacco plants

 

[DeborahJane]

That is a shame. They ate all my hostas, pain in the necks. I have a friend with a surviving tobacco plant. Don't know what ner secret is.

 

[LIcenter]

I thought, ah finally a subject I know something about.
Guess not.

 

[Pat]

At first I thought the same, the drink. Your pictures are great,

 

[Sheal]

I have bought a tobacco plant, don't know it's other name, which the snails love I'm told so in too scared to plant it.

Slugs and snails don't touch my Nicotiana that I grow every year, perhaps they prefer the variety you can smoke!

 

[ChanellG]

That is a shame. They ate all my hostas, pain in the necks. I have a friend with a surviving tobacco plant. Don't know what ner secret is.

I read recently that slugs and ants love but cannot digest cornmeal. I'm hoping to give this a try soon to see if it will work on snails as well. It rains so much between winter and spring that I can consider February to May-June snail season.

Slugs and snails don't touch my Nicotiana that I grow every year, perhaps they prefer the variety you can smoke!

I must not have the right kind then, because something is eating at my baby plants and I have yet to see a worm.