Must admit, for slugs and snails, its been a year of very little trouble, probably the best year I've ever known.
Not really done anything different this year.
The nightly trips with a torch after a damp and rainy spell, home-made nematodes down as I usually do for the slugs across all the beds.
Replacing copper strips around all the pots of veg.
Yeast traps all over the plot. Mind these have been lacking slugs and snails as much as usual.
It shows, as have struggled this year to gather many slugs and snails at night to fill up my nematode buckets this year.
Never really suffer much from blackfly or aphids, but am always told that is a coastal thing.
Do get a slight trickle early season on the early flowering broad beans, but a quick nip of the tops and a few sprays of soap and water always cures it for the rest of the growing season.
Always had plenty of ladybirds here over the years and assume as is known they do a good job.
Do not really cover much in my veg plots.
Do not grow a lot of brassicas, except Kale, Chard and Spinach, but they have always seemed immune to any attack.
The sprouts though are different matter. I do not cover them with netting.
Am always on the lookout, especially when the butterfiles start flying around. Still use my fake butterflies, I'm convinced they deter them. If they do land on the rare occasion, rub the eggs off quickly. Do inspect each plant daily.
There did seem to be a lot of butterflies flying around during August here, but not seen any this month, so ended early. My methods deterred them well again this year.
Have grown marigolds (my saved seed) for years and have them growing all around the plot. It for me does seem to deter many pests. They look lovely, flower from mid Spring till late Autumn and so easy to grow.
I have used the same netting for decades to top off my carrot pots, to stop anything digging in the pots and to deter carrot fly. Not that I've ever noticed an attack.
Gets used as a cover over the raised beds to protect the young plants getting dug up by my cats and foxes.
Especially for the early growing of leeks, turnips and new potatoes. The cover comes off when the plants take over the bed.
The netting I use is as good now as its always been. Its Yuzet green debris netting.
I use it as permanent wind and divider breaks around my sprouts and broad beans and they have stayed true through all the wind and all that the weather that gets thrown at the netting all year round.