we tried something different last year and are doing again this year we like lolla rossa lettuce but so do the slugs I cut the bottom out of plastic pots about 6-8 inch dia. then with a brush go around pot just below ridge on pot with vegetable oil then dust with salt this gives a band of salt around pot the slugs and snails wont go past this with carefull watering this lasts some while and helps keep lettuce or rocket clean. nothing worse than slime on what you will eat.  good luck. sorry meant to say stand pots on veg bed fill with compost.

Flippin' heck! That's some savvy squirrel!! Just hope you have a firearms licence and another one for whatever you're going to load it with. May I suggest either a punt gun or, even better, a Martini Henry as used by the British in the Zulu war of Rorke's Drift. Can't just remember the exact model but it was mentioned in the film which is one of my favourites. Maybe it was a .455???

A bit of overnight rain and it's now drizzling here.

Want to plant out some pots and troughs but can’t bear the thought of my cherished hand reared plantlets getting chomped by the slimies in their hoards thanks to all that rain 

Has anyone tried using copper tape, and does it work?

That's really helpful, thanks.

Is that the Complete Seed and Nut mix, or one of the other many types they have? So much choice