On my Garden Shelf

If a picture tells a thousand words this 2 foot run of shelf in my shed will generate a couple of chapters.

Centre stage is the large tub of Slug and Snail Killer. No holding back punches on this lable, at least I hope ‘it does what it says on the can’. I have bought these mini pellets from Wilkinson’s as a cheap means of protecting the new herbaceous plants like Delphiniums as they emerge from the winter soil.

It is a testament to my untidiness that the tub is on top of some secateurs that look like immature broad beans. Hidden away behind a green jar is a ph meter that tests the alkalinity-acidity of my soil and compost using a long thin probe. J Arthur Bowers lime and Epsom salt tonic flank the slug pellets.

Hanging from nails in the wall are sundry pieces of wire, raffia and a pair of reading glasses that I need when reading out the measurements of concentrated fertilizers etc.