New wildlife area - 17 September 2006

Today I dug a small area at the side of the shed and planted some tall, spindlely, purple flowers that butterflies and bees like. They had a visit from a bee while I was working - nice. Also planted an orange blossom shrub which had outgrown my garden at home. Edged the bed with stones and placed some old branches on top to encourage beetles and spiders etc. .

This weekend I also transplanted some of the strawberry runner plants - some had very long roots and other had hardly any, so fingers crossed!

Unfortunately my camera's batteries ran out today so I can't upload the photo's yet. Killing loads of slugs - going for the chop in half method at the moment as someone said slugs can crawl out of water (was drowning them in the water trough for a while).