Leftover chicken, veggie rice with fridge gravel clear out stuff and some hm spicy beans I found in the freezer when I was looking for something else.  Basically a mix and match of things that needed to be eaten and it went together surprisingly well 

Over winter I tried a mixture of Marmite, Plain Flour and Sugar mixed with warm water in beer type home made traps. They caught hundreds of slugs especially the little black underground ones that you don't see during the day. No reason to think dried yeast won't work. The mixture does start to ferment after a few days especially in warmer weather.

My new variety is Costoluto Florentino on the recommendation of this forum.

As I already grow Stupice, Galina, Black Krim, Honeycomb, Sweet Million, Tigrella, Orange Banana (not grown for a few years and giving another chance) , Grushovka & Latah, Crimson Crush and primabella I don't have a huge capacity for new varieties!

[can anyone work out which seed company I'm a fan of  ]

That’s another lovely lot of variation Potty Plotty Lotty - I can see we have Black Krim and Tigerella in common 

I have been given a couple of Marmandes today so need to add that to my list 
Gardeners really are the most generous of people!

Quote from: mrs bouquet on Today at 13:11

The serious diet started two days ago.

Is there a none serious type ? I really should do something too - I put a battery in the bathroom scales yesterday as my knee has started to play up, I've added 2.5 stone since ML died.

OH NO!, start cutting down on carbs, slowly - see where that takes you before trying anything too hard. It works for me whenever I reach my red line weight....

I used to have these copper rings around my Delphinium plants in my last garden to keep the slugs off, seemed to work well
https://www.allotment-garden.org/store/equipment/slug-copper-rings-large

Sorry, I don't know anything about the copper mesh, but it seems worth a try - nothing ventured nothing gained