My garden looks like a concentration camp with 3' chicken wire and bamboo stick fencing round everything to keep the hens out, various grades of netting draped over the top with stones to hold it down which SHOULD keep out birds, squirrels, cabbage whites and the fly and I use organic pellets and do hunts for slugs and snails. (Dead of night, with torch shining, patrolling like a prison guard!)
It's impossible to get into the beds to weed or pick! Some beds need to be open for bees which means if you crop rotate you need to shift the huge acres of netting to another bed....
Mind you, with the rampant mildew and the imminent prospect of blight I'm not sure there will be anything to pick!
Gird your loins everybody! Heavy rain tomorrow will mean those slimy things coming out of their hidey-holes to wreak havok again! Sprinkle those pellets!
I've found runner beans work well if you can plant them out quite tall and slug pellet. The birds leave them alone. Parsnips may get the odd slug nibble and I think carrot fly may have a go but they (and beetroot) seem ok. Swiss chard, perpetual spinach survive and not much attacks my leeks and garlic
Savbo's idea of sacrificial plants is good but the cabbages I left for the cabbage whites were ignored because they obviously prefer psb and spend all day trying to get in the netting (and succeeding)
Yes Mum. Should've sown up ALL the holes in the debris netting......
Well, am I broke and disillusioned? Hmmmmm...